WE BOUGHT A MIC

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A Pop Culture Podcast hosted by Ernest Calderon, Hunter Mobley, and Drew Dietzen, three friends who have had conversations about all things film, TV, music, etc. for over a decade. All they needed was to buy a mic. So they did.

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THE PELICAN BRIEF (with Harry Sayer)

We continue our “Mic on Fire” series covering the films of Denzel Washington with Alan J. Pakula’s 1993 John Grisham adaptation, The Pelican…

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THE PELICAN BRIEF (with Harry Sayer) – WE BOUGHT A MIC

We continue our "Mic on Fire" series covering the films of Denzel Washington with Alan J. Pakula's 1993 John Grisham adaptation, The Pelican Brief, co-starring Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow. Special guest Harry returns, armed with a full watch-through of every single John Grisham movie adaptation. We talk Pakula's "paranoia trilogy" pedigree, why the plot takes 112 minutes to explain what the titular "pelican brief" actually is, Denzel and Julia's undeniable (and famously unconsummated) chemistry, Stanley Tucci's silent assassin, and how this stacks up against the rest of the Grisham Cinematic Universe.
  1. THE PELICAN BRIEF (with Harry Sayer)
  2. MALCOLM X (with Kyle Flynn)
  3. The End of Oak Street – Quick Review
  4. THE ODYSSEY, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY, and TONY
  5. The 2026 Mid-Year Draft (Part 2)
  6. The 2026 Mid-Year Draft (Part 1)
  7. The Steven Spielberg Movie Ranking (with Adam Sirdoreus)
  8. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
  9. BACKROOMS and OBSESSION Spoiler Talk
  10. DISCLOSURE DAY

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