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Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast

Ruari O’Toole | Michael Dunbar | Saanje Bjorkson

It"s a defence podcast! It"s a movie podcast! It"s Clear and Present Dudes! Join Naval officers and Tom Clancy fans Mike Dunbar and Saanje Bjorkson and resident civilian expert Ruari O" Toole as we dissect political thrillers, spy films, courtroom dramas and crime movies and action cinema from the ’70s–2010s in a spoilercast format. What began as a mission to watch every Tom Clancy adaptation became unpreventable mission‑creep: we watch the films, unpack the heroes and villains, the Ships and the

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02:07:47

Unstoppable (2010)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/10/24

SCOTTOBERFEST 2025! These DUDES are TRAIN DUDES! This week we conclude this year's SCOTTOBERFEST with his final movie, Unstoppable. Starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, this movie asks - what if a train GOT AWAY? and WHO could stop it? It's phenomenal. There are no spies in it. We discuss all matters train, such as the Tyne and Wear Metro Musical, and what the thing that goes between the cars is called.Keywords: KeywordsUnstoppable, Tony Scott, Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, movie

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02:03:23

Crimson Tide (1995)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/10/10

SCOTTOBERFEST - Crimson Tide (1995)Dive stations, Dudes! In this episode, Mike, Ruari and Saanje plunge into the 1995 Tony Scott thriller Crimson Tide. They navigate the film’s torpedo-loaded themes of leadership under pressure, toxic command culture, and what happens when two men with nuclear launch keys start arguing about Clausewitz and Lipizzaner stallions.The hosts dissect the clash between Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and Lt. Cdr. Hunter (Denzel Washington) — a philosophical showdown that’s

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02:02:43

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/09/26

In this episode the Dudes aren't spies, we just read books! In this week's thriller movie, Robert Redford is Joe Turner - a CIA analyst who must go on the run when his entire section house is slaughtered out of the blue. Featuring an unnerving Max Von Sydow and a mesmerising Faye Dunaway, Sydney Pollack's 1975 espionage flick Three Days of the Condor was the film that finally ended Jaws' blockbuster run. We delve deep into greyzone warfare, the toxic love affair between Kathy and

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02:07:22

Firefox (1982)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/09/12

In this episode of Clear and Present Dudes we strap in and taxi down the runway in our shonky Iranian Qaher F-313 for Clint Eastwood’s 1982 Cold War techno‑thriller Firefox. We follow former USAF pilot Mitchell Gant as the CIA recruits him to infiltrate the Soviet Union and steal the secret, thought‑controlled supersonic fighter plane known as the MiG 31 Firefox — a tense spy mission full of tradecraft, KGB cat‑and‑mouse, and jaw‑tight aerial showdowns.We unpack Firefox as an espionage movie and

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02:15:03

Enemy of the State (1998)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/08/29

Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) as an ordinary lawyer who stumbles into a raw, dirty conspiracy after discovering evidence tied to a senator’s murder — and then finds himself hunted by a rogue NSA cell. He reluctantly joins forces with Brill (Gene Hackman), a haunted former operative, and suddenly every camera, cellphone, and piece of data is a weapon.On this episode of Clear and Present Dudes we put on a VPN, stop making calls (even from a payphone), and go deep underground to litigate Tony

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01:28:57

War of the Worlds (2025)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/08/17

Disclaimer: Due to the setup on this rare in-person recording there are some slight and occasional audio quality issues in the first 20-30 minutes. No one would have believed in the twenty-fifth year of the twenty-first century that this world was being trolled keenly and closely by content slop-making intelligences way way lesser than man's and yet as mortal as his own…In this Very Special Episode we’re calling Clear and Present Brews the dudes are joined by Ruari’s better half Emma and pod in

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02:42:32

Striking Distance (1993)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/08/08

The senior members of the NY sanitation department dress like generals! Did a cop plant weed on Richard the Lionheart while a minstrel sang the world’s first reggae song? All this and more as the dudes litigate the 1993 action thriller Striking Distance. Tom Hardy, a homicide detective with the Pittsburgh Police Department finds himself demoted to the River Rescue while investigating the murder of his father. When all his ex girlfriends start turning up dead, this already personal crime becomes…

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02:18:46

Tom Clancy’s Op Center (1995)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/07/23

If you’ve got a problem, a nobody can help, and if you can find them - maybe you can hire… the Ops Centre. The Dudes get their battle staff on and watch the 1995 TV movie Tom Clancy’s Op Centre. When a rogue KGB Colonel steals three nuclear warheads from a Ukrainian storage facility, it’s up to the National Crisis Management Centre to save the day.An all-star cast of Carl Weathers, Wilford Brimley, Harry Hamlin and Kim Catrall head up what is a meandering, somewhat confusing and quite slow paced

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02:19:01

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/06/30

The dudes, in an effort to prevent a fatal miscalculation, sound ‘one ping only’ and litigate the Tom Clancy adaptation that started it all: The Hunt for Red October. The movie that brought Dr Jack Ryan to cinema audiences, and Alec Baldwin to the masses. Connery is back, as Marko Ramius - Lithuanian Soviet Submarine Commander wishing to defect to the West, and only CIA analyst Jack Ryan understands his intent. Submarine action - shonky accents - and Stellan Skarsgård being an arrogant ass. This

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02:48:28

Meteor (1979)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/06/28

The dudes discuss 1979’s disaster flick ‘Meteor’ starring Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Martin Landau and Henry Fonda as ‘The President’. A giant meteor is heading toward the earth! The US has space nukes, the USSR has space nukes! They need to cooperate to save the world, they also have to work in a series of small rooms which are mainly brown.

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03:31:24

No Way Out (1987)

Clear and Present Dudes: A Thriller Movies Podcast ·

2025/06/28

The boys navigate the twisting corridors of power in 1987’s ‘No Way Out’ starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Will Patton and an incredible Sean Young. When the DefSec’s mistress is murdered, it falls to Lt Cdr Tom Farrell USN (Costner) to prove his innocence and track down the Soviet spy ‘Yuri’. Will he do it? He has no idea what men of power can do!

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