Episode 80: Objectively better than Band of Brothers

This week, Cort reports back on Dead Eyes, the podcast written, produced, and narrated by Connor Ratliff, an actor who was fired from Band of Brothers because Tom Hanks thought he had… dead eyes. What starts as a JABA (just another Brian assignment) for Cort quickly morphs into a full-on binge and one very specific expectation about how the story better end. From there, things go exactly where they tend to go on this show. We revisit just how consistently wrong we’ve been about basically everything, including our firm stance that Paradise would not go exactly where it went in its season finale. That propels us into a broader conversation about timelines, memory, and whether TV and movie writers are just throwing words like “quantum” around, because no one will question their science. We also take a brief detour into Memphis vs. everybody, defend the city, question LeBron James’s life choices, and continue laying a pretty strong foundation for a record-setting string of “being-wrongness” (trust me it’s a word, don’t look it up). Along the way, Brian boldly shares an opinion about a TV show. His opinion not being based on a fully informed knowledge, or really any knowledge, of the show feels totally on-brand at this point. There are also warnings about things you should absolutely not watch, a few recently triggered childhood memories, and as always, all the opinions you have come to count on to get through life. Cort's assignment: Dead Eyes a podcast by Connor Ratcliff - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-eyes/id1494539046 https://open.spotify.com/show/5dEsgMhmVy7wK8TSUrVnsQ?si=2a3bc189e1884a8e Brian's next assignment? Not The Cure.  But it is a band from our youth. A brand-new 2026 album from The Black Crowes, A Pound of Feathers. Make sure you listen before our next episode drops if you want to play along: https://open.spotify.com/album/417zi1WN5yAK4u3VOjZh13?si=O3Hc4p2NQwmm0VR3KY8bDw 📧 Email us: [email protected] 📱 Find us: @listenerslikeyoupod 🎶 Theme Song: Cyrus Oh Cyrus - The Flying Scrub Jays https://open.spotify.com/track/3S9T5HUS4cwky1922WhF1J?si=6fcad8771f724492