Secret Handshake Explicit

by Jacob Knight, Marten Carlson & Cody Bouchard

The podcast that covers the movies that help you identify your friends...and maybe make a few more along the way. Every week, Jacob, Cody, and Marten introduce a new title into their ever-growing collection of shared favorites, break them down to the basics, and decide whether or not they deserve to be bestowed with the oh-so-holy award of being a Certified Facemelter. What spine number will they cover this week? Tune in and fi ...   ...  Read more
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 5

  • Spine #55 - Black Rain

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    Spine #55 - Black Rain

    S05 E02
    01:37:53
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    We're back baby! After a (too long) hiatus, the boys sit down with Ridley Scott's long, winding filmography, ultimately ending on BLACK RAIN being their favorite. Oh, and they also check out a little (pun intended) French Emperor named Napoleon while they're at it. Secret Handshake returns!

  • Spine #54 - Bram Stoker's Dracula

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    Spine #54 - Bram Stoker's Dracula

    S05 E01
    01:42:08
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    2023 has Dracula Fever!* To celebrate, the boys revisit Francis Ford Coppola's phantasmagoric experimental interpretation of Bram Stoker's infamous novel, before traversing down the cinematic history of the world's most iconic vampire. We vant to suck yo blood!*Well, not really, according to box office reports.

  • Bonus Episode - Oppenheimer

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    Bonus Episode - Oppenheimer

    S05
    02:10:31
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    Ka-BOOM! The boys return following a brief hiatus to discuss the biggest movie of the summer (not based on a children's toy). The stoic, violent blockbusters of Christopher Nolan are broken down in order to properly celebrate Nolan's latest epic, the A-Bomb biopic OPPENHEIMER.

  • Season 4

  • Spine #53 - Light Sleeper

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    Spine #53 - Light Sleeper

    S04 E14
    01:37:17
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    The boys stay up journaling well into night as they spend time with Paul Schrader's lonely men. It's the Season Four finale and of course we went back to the filmograpghy of Secret Handshake's Patron Saint of Existential Despair.

  • Spine #52 - Dead Ringers

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    Spine #52 - Dead Ringers

    S04 E13
    01:23:56
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    Separation can be so terrifying. To celebrate the new Amazon limited series remake, the boys revisit David Cronenberg's 1988 art house classic about twin gynecologists. Who's ready for hours of graphic childbirth?