- 1 hour 29 minutesThe Wild Robot + Bernheim Wheat Whiskey with Lee Diaz: Season 11 Week 3
The first Let's Make It a Double chain of Season 11 closes with Bob's Pick, The Wild Robot, one of his favorite animated films of the last few years, and a first-time watch for guest and five-time co-host Lee Diaz of ReserveBar. The whiskey pairing is Heaven Hill's Bernheim Original Wheat Whiskey, a category the show has barely explored. The conversation about what The Wild Robot does spectacularly well and where it fumbles is one of the sharper animated-film breakdowns of the run so far.
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28 July 2026, 9:00 am - 49 minutes 45 secondsBarleycorn Awards Spring 2026 Winners with Founder John McCarthy
Bob and Brad drop a guest episode with John McCarthy, founder of the John Barleycorn Society, to walk through the full Spring 2026 Barleycorn Awards, including the biggest upset of the season in both Best Bourbon and Best Spirit of Spring 2026. John explains how Barleycorn's remote-first judging format works, reveals every category winner from Chivas 18 to Uncle Nearest to Dogfish Head to Starlight, and gets Bob and Brad on record with their individual favorites from the samples they score, including Brad's honest endorsement of a Goo Goo Cluster Cream Liqueur and Bob's continued one-man crusade for amburana finishes.
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24 July 2026, 9:00 am - 1 hour 2 minutesBig Hero 6: Bob's First-Time Watch + Green River Toasted Double Oak
Season 11 rolls into Week 2 with the second film in the season's first Let's Make It a Double chain, and it's a genuine rarity: Big Hero 6 is Bob's first-time watch, only the third film in F&W history that Bob is coming in cold on (Scott Pilgrim and Secondhand Lions are the other two). Pair that with a new limited release from Green River Distillery Select — an 8-year, 115.1-proof toasted double oak that lands squarely on opposite sides of Bob and Brad's palates — and the result is one of the weirder tasting sections of the season, plus a genuinely divided take on a 2014 Disney movie that made $660 million and then vanished.
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21 July 2026, 9:05 am - 46 minutes 22 secondsThe Odyssey (2026) Reaction: Nolan's Most Ambitious and Most Pessimistic Film Yet
Bob and Brad drop a bonus episode to react to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — Bob's seen it twice and lays out a full theory of late-period Nolan as a career-long meditation on deception scaling from the individual (Memento) to the civilizational (Oppenheimer, now this), landing at 8.5/10. Brad went on a friend's fifteen-minute-notice invitation the night before, having just reread the poem, and comes in at 7/10 — arguing Nolan strips the Odyssey of its color and intimacy in service of a theme he calls narcissistic (that my generation broke the world for the next one). Both agree the cast is stacked but not showcased, that Circe's body horror rules, and that Hoyte van Hoytema's desaturated house style has now officially become a problem. Brad sips an Ardbeg Uigeadail in honor of Odysseus; Bob is drinking coffee because the movie kept him up too late.
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19 July 2026, 7:09 pm - 1 hour 27 minutesThe Incredibles (2004) + Bardstown Bourbon Company Mars: Season 11 Premiere & New Format Reveal
Season 11 begins, and Bob and Brad have finally cracked the format they've been chasing for ten seasons. The plan: 10 canon-level films across the year, each one kicking off a three-movie mini-program built by chaining "Let's Make It a Double" picks. They use the premiere to establish the rules, knock back a Bardstown Distillery Reserve release that lands at a rare 45/50 from both hosts, and make the unanimous case that The Incredibles is the best superhero movie ever made — full stop, not just one of them.
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14 July 2026, 9:09 am - 37 minutes 8 secondsSeason 11 Preview: All 12 Films Revealed + Penelope Architects of Golf Hole 1 Review
Bob and Brad sit down for one last between-seasons drop before Season 11 begins in July, and this one has real news: every film on the Season 11 slate, revealed. Along the way, they pour Hole One from Penelope's brand-new 18-bottle Architects of Golf collection, a $60 six-year MGP bourbon finished with American oak staves that lands solidly in F&W's summer-crusher territory. It's a preview that doubles as a full whiskey review and a walking tour through what turns out to be F&W's oldest-skewing season yet — average release year 1974.
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7 July 2026, 9:09 am - 47 minutes 49 secondsGreen River Honey Review + David Huffman on the Cleveland Cinematheque
Bob and Brad review Green River's $25 honey-finished bourbon, then sit with new director of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, David Huffman, on why repertory cinema matters.
Bob and Brad use this between-seasons drop to do three things at once: tease the format of Season 11, review a whiskey that flirts with the legal edges of what bourbon can technically be, and sit down with the new director of one of the country's most respected repertory theaters. The Season 11 reveal is its own reason to listen — a combo season pairing the remaining AFI Top 100 films with a whole-season "Let's Make It a Double" telephone game — but the centerpiece is Bob's conversation with David Huffman about why rep cinema still matters.
Season 11, finally explained.
The whiskey. Green River Honey-Finished Bourbon is a $25 release built on four-year Kentucky straight bourbon with locally sourced honey added directly into the barrel.
The interview. Bob's conversation with David Huffman, the new director of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, covers the territory rep cinema deserves and rarely gets.
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9 June 2026, 9:05 am - 2 hours 18 minutesWest Side Story (2021) Revisited with Patrick H. Willems + Penelope Riviera Review
Patrick H. Willems returns to defend Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story — sparking Bob's most deranged take to date, all about cinematographer Janusz Kamiński. Plus Penelope Riviera, a new blend featuring American Light Whiskey and a Rosé cask finish.
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26 May 2026, 9:18 am - 51 minutes 25 secondsSeabiscuit (2003) / Kentucky Derby 2026
In this interseason bonus episode, we saddle up for a conversation that’s equal parts nostalgia, Americana, and bourbon-fueled storytelling.
With the Kentucky Derby around the corner, we finally dive into Seabiscuit (2003)—a film Bob has been waiting 11 seasons to cover. It may be a loose connection (Seabiscuit never ran the Derby), but it’s the perfect excuse to explore one of the most iconic underdog stories in sports history.
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30 April 2026, 12:59 pm - 1 hour 3 minutesSeason 10 Finale: The Final Four, The Filmies & A Very Controversial Champion
In the Season 10 finale of Film & Whiskey, Bob and Brad wrap up their ambitious “re-review” season by finishing the official Film & Whiskey Bracket Challenge, handing out the annual Filmies, and crowning the best movie of the season, for better or worse.
Along the way, they review Bardstown Bourbon Company’s Cascadia Garryana Oak Barrel Finish, debate whether Rear Window, Casablanca, and 12 Angry Men are actually perfect films, and once again allow the dreaded Coin of Destiny to wreak absolute havoc on the bracket.
There are arguments. There is betrayal. There is deep cinematic reflection.
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31 March 2026, 9:00 am - 46 minutes 46 secondsSeason 10 Bracket Challenge (Part 2): Chaos & Coin Flips
The bracket chaos continues.
In Part 2 of the Film & Whiskey Season 10 Bracket Challenge, Bob and Brad take the field from 16 films down to four—and things get messy fast. What starts as thoughtful film debate quickly spirals into coin flips, upsets, and pure cinematic anarchy.
Along the way, the guys go head-to-head on legendary matchups like Vertigo vs. Star Wars, Pulp Fiction vs. Rear Window, and Casablanca vs. Singin’ in the Rain—all while sipping mystery whiskies pulled from the depths of Bob’s cabinet.
It’s film theory vs. vibes. Structure vs. chaos. And somehow… Star Wars might break the bracket.
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