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Throw in the Pal
by Frank Kerr, Marcus Hensley, and Tom Butler
Welcome to Throw in the Pal, a podcast where three mildly talented, majorly struggling actors attempt the impossible in looking for fresh material to mine for online discourse. And wouldn’t you know it, turns out movie’s are a thing, so that’s what we’re going with! Every fortnight, Frank, Marcus, and Tom bat about their opinions on a new film, trying to persuade each other that they have the hottest take in the room. It rarely gets violent, but it’s always a little silly. Enjoy Pals!
Episodes
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The Odyssey
(To the tune of the Australian National Anthem) Odysseus led quite the course He sailed to foreign lands He hid inside a wooden horse While his men shit their pants They shit and shit and shit and shit Their pants were filled to burst Would they say that it was worth it Or they were darkly…
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John Goodman - Short n Sweet
You think he's Good? Yeah, well, that's John like, your opinion, man.
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The Flinstones
Filmmakers in the '90s were so preoccupied with whether or not they Yabba Dabba could, they didn't stop to think if they Yabba Dabba should.
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2026 so far... cinema is back?
What's the best thing about 2026? That there's 20 of them! Get it? No? Well maybe get along to the humour hospital and check yourself into the I-peee-yeeew, cos you've got yourself a seriously stinky case of the no-funny-bones, and my uncle died from that and it was hilarious! Anyway, 2026 has…
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DIsclosure Day
Are the Pals gonna be all, "Dis-whoa-sure Yay!" or more like, "Dis-no-sure Way!" after watching this balls-to-the-wall, four-on-the-floor, don't-stop-til-you-drop, wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am powerhouse movie that honestly I'm sorta stalling here because I've forgotten the name of -- something to do...
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Best Musician Turned Actor
What do you call an egotistical musician who secretly wants to be an even more egotistical actor? A pre-Madonna.
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Backrooms
Have you ever wandered into a strange space where everything seems a little off, like the furniture is wonky and strangely oriented, the lighting is disconcerting, there are people you sort of half-recognise and a tall, blurry presence off in the corner who seems to be in command of the weirdly...
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What happened to Christian Bale (In a good way) - Short n Sweet
What do you call it when a bunch of people start running en masse out of church and frantically renouncing their faith?
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Batman Begins
Why do we Pal? So we can learn to throw ourselves back into podcasting! This modern comic book classic shifted the paradigm, lifting this bat who crime fights to the heights of an all-knew manner of acclaim with a brand new grand design, not Banner but a Bruce of a different hue, a Wayne whose...
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Thor: Love and Thunder - Short n Sweet
What is love? Baby don't hurt me... don't hurt me... no Thor.
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Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: Ragnarök is the story of a man attempting to come to terms with his dormant potential, when he has been doubted for so long by so many, coming as he does from a far away land where people dress and speak funny, abiding by odd customs and always seeming to stand out from the crowd, yet...
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The Best Westerns of the 21st Century
People are always talking about how good urns are in the east (they won't shup up about it!), but have you ever stopped to consider: what's the best west urn? And if you're thinking '70s urns, '80s urns or - God help you - '90s urns, we'd all like to know what Marty McFly's like in person, cos…
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The Faculty
The fact of the matter is The Faculty Is the narrative we're chatting 'bout as Pals Full of splatters and a characteristic tendency For embattled adolescents in a grapple with a parasitic entity To enact their personas through apparel that apparently embellishes their evident identity While they...
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Best Sitcom Casts - Short n Sweet
Sitcoms are the backbone of television, and just like your actual backbone, they degrade over time and often end in sh!t. But occasionally they produce stars, or sorta stars, or at least stardust particles, that find their way to the big screen. Which sitcom casts have blasted past their dominion...
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Project Hail Mary
What's the best strategy to get taxi-drivin' Margaret's attention? Or what could I say in order to compel a lady quite contrary to violently vomit frozen rain? In fact, what is perhaps the closest near-perfect rhyme for the all-too-common social justice slogan, "Protect gay Clefairy"? That's…
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Who's the best director of the 2020s - Short n Sweet
Do you have 2020 vision? Not like these Pals! All they see is 2020 everywhere they look. It's a problem; someone call a doctor! Or, wait, maybe a... director? Oh, now you're cooking with gas. Wait, what's that smell? A new Short and Sweet discussing the Best Directors of the 2020s so far? And…
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An Oscars Recap! - Short n Sweet
Bust out the Hamnet and start rounding up some porkers cos we're gonna choo-choo down to Train Dream station faster than an F1 race, on the lookout for Sinners with no sense or Sentimental Value about 'em, keeping dapper as a Secret Agent and fiery as an Italian nonna yelling, "Bugonia!" at a...
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The Pals 4th Annual Oscar Special
Oscar? I hardly know... him?! The pals (sans Marcus) throw out predictions and aspersions for the 98th Annual Academy Awards. Let's go!
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Is Hyperlink cinema dead? - Short n Sweet
A hyperlink is a device you click to try connect two quite distinct online-type things. While a rom-com is the short form for a popular sub-gen where love's wrongs go right. Combined, we get films filled brimming with stars, far-flung yet spun together as they are, By fate's whimsy, not always...
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One Battle After Another
There are many things that TITP - OBAA could commonly be an acronym for: Trampolining is the Problem - Our Butts are Aching Teaching Idiots to Pilot - Oh Boy, Airplane Armageddon! Two Inches, Ten Pregnancies - Orgy Blunders at Armidale Take 'im to Paris - Oooh Bonjour, Ami Ancien But this week,...
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The Wayans Family - Short n Sweet
If you think it's hard to find a way in to understanding legendary entertainment-based families, let us weigh in with our SnS discussion this episode, where we get to weighin' the way in which this particular family left a big impact. No, it's not the Muffets, sitting on their tuffets with their...
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Pretty Woman
Isn't it what we all crave? A glamorous gal, a stunning seniorita, an unparalleled Persephonic partner of pulchritudinous personage? Well you'd best get set for this episode all about a Pretty Woman, and the pretty cool men (who aren't afraid to show off their sensitive side) who might just be...
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Horror Icons - Short n Sweet
Are you a horror icon? Here's a checklist to find out: - Are you now or have you ever worn a mask made of your victims' skin? - Do teenagers having intercourse near moonlit lakes make you murderous with rage? - Has the queer community inexplicably claimed you as an aspirational figure? - Have you...
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Frankenstein
As Pals, a feeling has become clear to us. Movies do not hate the audience; the audience does not hate filmmakers. But podcasting feels inevitable between them. Perhaps, we think, this is the way of the world: it will hunt you down and throw you in just for being who you are. And so, this week,...
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Best Disaster Movies - Short n Sweet
Some say life is just a series of near-disasters, averted invisibly but always coiled in the shadows, awaiting their next opportunity. Some say the fact that 'podcaster' rhymes with 'disaster' is a little on the nose. Some say that using "some say" as the launching pad for any type of writing is...
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Goldeneye
What was your name again, Mr Jimmy Connection? That's got a ring to it, and I like the look of ya, through my silver monocle. Good gracious, now that I get a closer look, I recognise you as that Spanish EDM music producer who also happens to be devoutly Christian. Yes, indeed it is, the renowned...
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Best One Liners - Short n Sweet
You've heard 'em all before, some of the greatest quotes in all of cinema: "Frankly, my dear, I don't throw a Pal!" "Here's throwing at you, Pal." "There's no Pal like throw." "I'll throw what she's Paling." "You wanna throw how I got these Pals?" "I love the throw of naPALm in the morning." Now,...
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The Truman Show
Pals... You can't speak, because we can't hear you. We are the creators of a podcast that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions. And you? You're the listeners. Is any of this real? We are real. That's what makes us so good to listen to. Now, believe us, Pals: there's no more truth out...
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Short n Sweet - Remakes Vs Originals
What kind of things should you remake? A delicious pie after it's been fouled by a libidinous high schooler? Yes, says I! But what about if that second pie, equally as scrumptious and now just as cum-ptious due to that same horny fellow? Maybe once more, I suppose, but don't leave it cooling by…
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Superman (2025)
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird... it's a plane... no, actually, its dimensions don't really fit either of those fairly common sky-bound properties. Aahh, could be some sort of... drone, I suppose? Well, actually, looks like there's a lot of fabric, so maybe it's a banner, like, as some…
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Good Godzilla this is bad!
What if God was zill-aah-ahhh? Just a giant liz-aaa-aaard? Would he have big riz-aaa-aaah? Or would could he just be our Paaaaaaaaaaal?
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The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century? We'll See About That!
The New York Times made a list, ya see, of the very best films from this century Some are low brow, some are high, and most were made by some white guy Most are dramas, the human kind, with lots of doom and gloom in mind A couple comedies, worth a guffaw, and some foreign films you've never heard...
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28 Years Later
Did you hear about the man who couldn't stop eating corn? 28 Ears Later... his blood sugar Spiked, cause he didn't Boyle it well enough. Well, enough of ATJ (All That Joking), why don't you Comer along and Pal it up with these Fienne fellas!
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Short n Sweet - The 2020s: The Best Decade in Film?
"Per" is a prefix, meaning proportionally attributable in each instance or unit; "form" is a noun, meaning the expression of a thing itself; and "ants" are those things that you have in your pants. That's all the context you need to enjoy The Pals' latest Short n Sweet: Our Favourite Performances...
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Fool's Gold
On July 7th, 2025, in celebration of the many Pals they had previously thrown in together, the shortest episode in the podcast's history was recorded in Melbourne, Australia. The many years worth of fun, frivolity and friendship that had amassed up to this point came to be known as The Palwry....
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Short n Sweet - The Villains Were Right
Some say a villain is simply a hero ahead of schedule. Others say that morality is a compass in a maze of magnets, where the only truly righteous beings are those who set their headings by the stars. Others still have been know to say, "Huh? What?" Food for thought, and thus we three provideth a...
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Once Were Warriors
Our Pals once were podcasters. But unlike you, listener, they were Pals with bits, "Yes, and"-ers; Pals with spirit. And if their spirit can survive podding with each other for almost three years, then they can survive anything.
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Short n Sweet - Best Vampires in Film
What is the deal with Vampires? They're out here all moody, milky pale and trying to avoid any natural light. It's like the front row at a My Chemical Romance concert! And what is it with all this stuff about sucking people dry just to sustain themselves? Where'd they learn that from, my…
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Sinners
And now, the Sinners' prayer: Some films, if rated an eleven, hallowed be thy name; will this be one? Wouldn't that be fun, if we all gave this movie an eleven? Give us today not too wide a spread; and Frank give us our Marcuses, as we give Frank those who Marcus against us; and lead us not into...
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Short n Sweet - Iconic VHS
Viewing things as a young child Held a real "je ne sais quoi" So we decided to go buckwild Hi there, it's the monkey who writes the blurbs for Throw in the Pal here! Eagle-eyed viewers will recognise that the above is an acrostic poem, using the acronym VHS as its basis, as this Short 'n Sweet is...
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Little Women
The Pals... they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that podcasting is all the Pals are fit for. I'm so sick of it! But we're so lonely... So join us, won't you, and help...
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Short n Sweet - Best Video Game Adaptions
Video games... What are video games? Are they movies you play, with missions and aims?Is it all interactive, do you pick the events?Do you have to pay more, in dollars and cents?Is there easy and hard as a mode to select?Are there easter eggs hidden for you to detect?If I eat a burrito and hold…
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A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie, y'say? Next they'll be doing a Fortnite Feature or a Roblox Reel! And why stop there?! There could even be a THIRD THING! Anyway, enjoy the episode.
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Short n Sweet - Best of De Niro
People keep writing in and asking the Pals when we're going to start talking more about current events. No, that's not 'currant' as in the berry, so calm down you juice-guzzling sickos. We mean current as in 'currency', the tokens that line our credit and draw us together in the spending spree of...
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Raging Bull
Now the story of a wealthy man who lost everything, and then the same man who had no choice but to let his boxing career flame out so that he could open up a sleazy nightclub in order to perform atrocious standup comedy and more efficiently make out with teenagers. It's a-Raging Bull, innit?
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Short n Sweet - Best (Ball)Sports Movies
Balls: what are they good for, anyhow? Can you eat ‘em? Can you take ‘em out on an airplane and play with ‘em without getting into trouble? Can you go one day without someone getting on your case about holding onto ‘em for too damn long? For most of those, the answer is fairly self-evident, even…
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Back to the Future Trilogy
The reason it's called the "f-you-ture" and not the "f-us-ture" is that everyone's is their own to make. That's really the main theme of the Back to the Future movies, if you ignore "white people actually invented rock and roll" and "maybe MILF is a more inclusive term that you originally…
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Short n Sweet - A Brief History of the Pals!
The Pals have been watching movies for so long that they almost forgot why they started doing it in the first place: so they could yell vulgarities at each other over minor score disparities. Luckily, we at Throw in the Pal have decided to celebrate our nearly 100 episodes by dedicating an entire...
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Bad Boys II
Pal boys, Pal boys, Not just one or two, Not just one or two, There's a third for you.
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Short n Sweet - The Best of Tim Burton
Picture half of an Australian choccie biscuit, blown up to massive proportions and then frozen over, becoming the coldest, most massive hunk of a common confectionery you've ever seen. They're calling it a Tim Brrrr-tonne, and it's the topic we were supposed to be talking about in this week's...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Throw in the Pal, a podcast where three mildly talented, majorly struggling actors attempt the impossible in looking for fresh material to mine for online discourse. And wouldn’t you know it, turns out movie’s are a thing, so that’s what we’re going with! Every fortnight, Frank, Marcus, and Tom bat about their opinions on a new film, trying to persuade each other that they have the hottest take in the room. It rarely gets violent, but it’s always a little silly. Enjoy Pals!
HOSTED BY
Frank Kerr, Marcus Hensley, and Tom Butler
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