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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week, we're covering Clint's late masterpiece Richard Jewell. Is this the greatest screen acting ever?

No What's On Your Mind this week. But we'll be back with many thoughts soon. 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. We had many technical difficulties with this episode but nothing was stopping us from celebrating Earl "The Mule" Stone. That's right, this week we're covering Eastwood's The Mule. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss John Sayles's Lone Star and our love for the Jackass franchise. Then we do our first ever mailbag segment where discuss the great Blake Edwards. Feel free to leave us a voicemail any time!

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Clint's late misunderstood masterpiece, The 15:17 to Paris. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Chinatown and Joy Williams' Breaking and Entering. If any of y'all know the heroes we're discussing today, shoot us a message - we would love to thank them for their bravery. 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's Sully. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss The Sweet Smell of Success, To Be or Not to Be, and Nirvanna the Band The Show The Movie. 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's American Sniper. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about Mad Men and Nobuhiro Yamashita's Linda Linda Linda. 

American Sniper (0:00-33:41)

-- What's On Your Mind (33:56-41:43)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Jersey Boys. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about João Monteiro and Jean-Claude Brisseau. Happy to be back talking about Clint after an extended break. We'll be back soon talking about the remaining late masterpieces...

Jersey Boys (0:00-22:47)

--What's On Your Mind (22:57-32:25)

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Honkytonk Men returns from a brief hiatus to discuss the discoveries of 2025. We talk about Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Sōmai, Robert Altman, and more. We'll be back with more Clint Eastwood episodes soon. 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's J. Edgar. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about the Christian scare film A Thief in the Night and Jack Hill's Pit Stop. 

J. Edgar (0:00-31:25)

-- What's on Your Mind (31:43-39:27)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Hereafter. During What's on Your Mind, we talk about Eddington and songs that changed our idea of what music could be. We're getting spiritual this week. 

Hereafter (0:00-28:05)

-- What's On Your Mind (28:21-38:25)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Invictus. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about Boogie Nights and Moby Dick. 

Invictus (0:00-30:00)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're discussing Gran Torino. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Ross McElwee's Sherman's March. 

Grant Torino (0:00-35:02)

-- What's On Your Mind (35:22-44:19) 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Changeling. During What's On Your Mind we discuss Bennett Miller's The Cruise and Gregory La Cava's Stage Door. 

Changeling (0:00-28:17)

--What's On Your Mind (28:35-36:45) 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss John Woo's Hard Target and Moral Orel. 

Letters from Iwo Jima (0:00-27:16)

--What's On Your Mind (27:30-39:09)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers. During What's On Your Mind we talk about The Pitt, medical technology, and Howard Hawks. 

Flags of Our Fathers (0:00-24:06)

--What's On Your Mind (24:30-36:08)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Million Dollar Baby. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Love + Pop by Hideaki Anno and Wind Across the Everglades by Nicolas Ray. 

Million Dollar Baby (0:00-33:30)

--Alexander Payne digression (33:30-35:56)

--What's On Your Mind (36:23-47:09)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's return to critical acclaim, Mystic River. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss some upcoming Alan Rudolph screenings, John Byrum's Inserts, and Peter Hyam's Busting. 

Mystic River (0:00-32:05)

--What's On Your Mind (32:23-43:04)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Blood Work. We talk about Eastwood losing interest in procedurals, the transition to the 00s prestige era of his career, and renting movies at Ingles. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and Sam Peckinpah's Junior Bonner. 

Blood Work (0:00-28:27)

-- What's On Your Mind (28:44-35:18) 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're joined by Ben Hyder (@benhyder) to discuss the first Clint Eastwood film of the 21st century: Space Cowboys. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Alex Toth and David Lynch.

Intro (0:00-2:36)

Space Cowboys (2:37-32:15)

--What's On Your Mind (32:33-37:24)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're joined by Rob Franco (@responsiblerob) to cover Eastwood's True Crime. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Blood Simple, Den of Thieves 2, the Parker novels, and Spielberg's 1941. 

Intro (0:00-3:30)
True Crime (3:30-35:39)
--What's On Your Mind (35:55-47:11)

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We've come to the end of another year. In this episode, we talk through our favorite discoveries of the year, covering directors like Peter Bogdanovich, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jacques Rivette, and more. We even talk a little bit about Eastwood and some new releases at the end. 

Thanks for listening. We'll be back with our regular programming soon. 

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Inglourious Basterds and Over the Edge. 

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (0:00-33:33)
--What's On Your Mind (33:41-47:12)

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This month we're taking a break from Eastwood directorial features to talk about some horror movies. This week we're getting into The Seventh Victim, directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton. During What's On Your Mind we talk about Red Rooms and Natural Enemies. 

The Seventh Victim (0:00-29:24)
--What's On Your Mind (29:42-36:10)

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This month we're taking a break from Eastwood directorial features to talk about some horror movies. This week we're getting into Toshiharu Ikeda's Evil Dead Trap. During What's On Your Mind we discuss John Carpenter's Christine and Larry Cohen's It's Alive. 

Evil Dead Trap (0:00-30:07)
--What's On Your Mind (30:25-40:17)

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This month we're taking a break from Eastwood double features and getting into some horror movies. We're starting off with a Malpaso picture, Tightrope (directed by "Richard Tuggle"). During What's On Your Mind, we discuss James Ellroy and Out of the Blue. 

Tightrope (0:00-28:59)
--What's On Your Mind (29:00-39:09)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we have Eastwood's Absolute Power and Mamet's Spartan. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss Megalopolis and The Sopranos. 

Absolute Power (0:00-28:19)
--What's On Your Mind (28:30-41:00)
Spartan (41:14-58:46) 

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County and Tsui Hark's Green Snake. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about Saint Jack and Jacques Rozier. 

The Bridges of Madison County (0:00-37:41)
--What's On Your Mind (37:53-46:40)
Green Snake (46:44-1:11:23)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're covering Eastwood's A Perfect World and Dennis Dugan's Big Daddy. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about Noah Buschel and Fall Guy (Kinji Fukasaku). 

A Perfect World (0:00-31:23)
--What's On Your Mind (31:33-36:35)
Big Daddy (35:50-1:03:01)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we have Eastwood's Unforgiven and Akira Kurosawa's Ran. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about Cutter's Way,  Animal Collective, and Entourage. 

This is a big one. 

Unforgiven (0:00-40:35)
--What's On Your Mind (40:50-51:04)
Ran (51:21-1:18:07)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we have Eastwood's The Rookie and Jacques Deray's The Outside Man. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about the end of HBO's Girls (spoiler heavy) and whether box office should matter at all. 

The Rookie (0:00-31:29)
--What's On Your Mind (31:46-43:00)
The Outside Man (43:16-1:05:56)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart and Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry. During What's On Your Mind, we get into Evil Does Not Exist and, of course, Entourage. 

White Hunter, Black Heart (0:00-37:00)
-- What's On Your Mind? (37:11-47:20)
Deconstructing Harry (47:27-1:09:15)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. We were sick this week, but we couldn't miss the chance to talk about Eastwood's Bird and Oliver Stone's The Doors. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss some recent releases and Jake's new interest in Entourage. 

Bird (0:00-33:43)
-- What's On Your Mind (33:56-41:30)
The Doors (41:44-1:11:03)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge and Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Gastr del Sol. 

Heartbreak Ridge (0:00-26:28)
--What's On Your Mind (26:47-34:48)
Hacksaw Ridge (34:57-1:01:13)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's Pale Rider and Delmer Daves's The Hanging Tree. During What's On Your Mind we talk about Thomas Pynchon, Lena Dunham's Girls, and Dune 2. We end the episode with a round of Clint Trivia. 

Pale Rider (0:00-25:38)
--What's On Your Mind (25:50-45:49)
The Hanging Tree (46:01-1:02:56)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's Sudden Impact and James B. Harris's Cop. During What's On Your Mind, we talk Satantango, Good Time, and The Curse. 

Sudden Impact (0:00-40:03)
--What's On Your Mind (40:21-56:14)
Cop (56:24-1:21:34)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're joined by Eddie Averill of Extended Clip to talk about Eastwood's Honkytonk Man and Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life. During What's On Your Mind, we go tv mode and discuss Breaking Bad and True Detective. 

Honkytonk Man (0:00-40:08)
--What's On Your Mind (40:15-47:23)
Lust for Life (47:36-1:16:11)

Intro music by Ethan Taylor & Preston Keepfer
Cover art by Sydney Taylor

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Jake and Ethan talk through their best first watches of 2023. We're talking Ozu, Eustache, James L. Brooks, Alan Rudolph, and many more.  We'll be back with more Eastwood episodes soon. 

Jake's categories: 
- Repeat Offenders (6:50)
- I Was Not Familiar With Your Game (30:00)
- L'enfant Terrible (48:30)

Ethan's Categories:
- Bad and/or Difficult Men (17:40)
- Alan Rudolph (40:50)
- Bombass Debuts (1:04:30)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's Firefox and Rob Cohen's Stealth, two movies about very special planes. During What's On Your Mind, we talk about May December, Reds, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and The Holdovers. 

Firefox (0:00-23:20)
--What's On Your Mind (23:31-40:00)
Stealth (40:21-1:15:05)
--Clint Trivia (1:15:06-1:18:20)

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Honkytonk Men is a podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're talking about Eastwood's Bronco Billy and John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, two films about directors and dreamers. In What's On Your Mind, we talk about Priscilla, The Killer, and Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards. We end the podcast with a new segment from Jake: Clint Eastwood Trivia. 

Bronco Billy (0:00-27:45)
--What's On Your Mind? (28:15-43:30)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (43:42-1:10:12)
--Clint Eastwood Trivia (1:10:13-1:12:59)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're joined by Matt Farley of Motern Media to talk about Eastwood's The Gauntlet and Elliot Silverstein's The Car. During What's On Your Mind, we talk to Matt about watching and making movies outside of the Hollywood system, working with friends and family, and Motern's upcoming sequel, Heard She Got Murdered. 

The Gauntlet (0:00-34:30)
--What's On Your Mind? (34:40-43:22)
The Car (43:38-1:01:46)

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Honkytonk Men is a double feature podcast going through the directorial filmography of Clint Eastwood. This week we're discussing Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales and John Ford's Wagon Master, two movies about community formation in the American west. During What's On Your Mind, we discuss some John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper classics, Dawson's Creek, and Bret Easton Ellis. 

The Outlaw Josey Wales (0:00-39:41)
--What's On Your Mind? (39:56-53:57)
Wagon Master (54:11-1:24:21)

Intro music: Ethan Taylor & Preston Keepfer 
Cover art: Sydney Taylor