Bob and Brad finally watch Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise for the first time and come away stunned by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, a brilliant screenplay, and one of the best films they’ve discovered in years. Then they review Bardstown Bourbon Company Victoria Pineapple Finish, an unusually sweet, rum-and-pineapple-influenced whiskey that sparks a debate over whether Bob is allowed to keep calling it a liqueur.

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Bob and Brad hit the road with 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, celebrating Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, and 95 minutes of gloriously uncomplicated car-chase chaos. Then they review Stillman Sonder 10-Year American Single Malt and discover that an impressive age statement doesn’t always make for an impressive whiskey.

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Buster Keaton directed and starred in The General (1926), a Civil War train chase turning 100 this year. Bob came in expecting a polite "important silent film" rewatch and left raving about the audacity of it.

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Bob and Brad celebrate 500 episodes of Film & Whiskey by looking back at seven years of movies, arguments, favorite discoveries, listener memories, infamous hot takes, and the community that somehow grew around their weekly conversations. They also mark the occasion with Bardstown Bourbon Company Lochs of Jura, a complex bourbon-and-rye blend finished for 32 months in casks previously used for Scotch from the Isle of Jura.

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Bob and Brad tackle the show's first double feature, watching James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) back-to-back alongside Sagamore Spirit Bottled in Bond Rye, and end up split on nearly everything.

On the original, Bob calls it a landmark rather than a great film and praising mainly its craft, while on the sequel Brad sees a campy cash grab that lampoons the first film.

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Bob and Brad revisit Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005), over two decades after fourteen-year-old Bob called it “about as damn perfect of a movie as you can get.” They agree that the film’s final two hours remain extraordinary, but sharply divide over whether its first hour provides essential character development or desperately needs trimming.

Along the way, they examine King Kong as distinctly American folklore, how Peter Jackson shifted audience sympathy from the Depression-era expedition to Kong himself, and why “beauty killed the beast” is really about a creature whose capacity for wonder leaves him defenseless against exploitation.

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Bob and Brad revisit 1933's King Kong and find it isn't just a landmark, but the full- formed template of the adventure movie itself, right down to the Jurassic Park structural blueprint Spielberg would lift sixty years later.

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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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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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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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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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