The Longlist

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

In honor of their new movie, The Rip, we're doing an episode on everyone's favorite Hollywood besties, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. These two honestly warrant their own individual episodes, but Josh and Jack thought it would be fun to tackle their career as a partnership first. It's pretty unique that two friends from Massachusetts not only both broke into the movie industry in a big way, but have managed to have such successful careers. We break it down here on this weeks episode of The Longlist. Enjoy.
 
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Episode 39: Movie Scores

Music is a quintessential part of the movie experience, both from the filmmaking side and the audience side. When to use it, how to use it and everything in between. The way movies utilize music has a lasting impact on the way we as viewer consume and interact with them. In this episode, Josh and Jack are joined by Drew Wolff and break down some of our favorite movie scores to date. Also, if you would like to hear some of our selections, Jack made a Spotify playlist (The Longlist: Best Scores Listening Guide) so that you can follow along or listen to them afterwards. Thanks so much and enjoy.
 
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Episode 38. 2025 In Review

It's our breakdown of the year 2025. In this episode, we have a couple of classic lists, we'll give out the first annual Longlist Awards, and finish off with Josh and Jack revealing their top ten films of 2025. With some twists and turns on the way. We had a lot of fun and hope you have fun listening.
 
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Episode 37. Wild Card: A Glimpse Into 2026

Another Wild Card episode. Happy New Year, everyone. Jack and Josh took last week off and are back at it with a bunch of fun lists, and an on mic strategy session that Jack was not allowed to prep for. And we finish off the episode with both brothers bringing a list that the other does not know about. It could be as long as they want and on anything they want. It was a lot of fun and we're all excited about what 2026 looks like for The Longlist.
 
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Episode 1: First Episode!

Hey everyone and welcome to The Longlist. This is our inaugural episode and our goal this first one is for you to get to know your hosts, brothers Josh and Jack, a little bit more. We give some take on the Oscars (at the time of recording) and have some more personally oriented top fives for you leading up to our rankings of the films in our respective birth years, 1985 and 1991. But we still cover a wide range of movies and we hope you have fun with it. Enjoy!
 
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Episode 36: Adaptations

Josh and Jack are joined by their good friend, Alex Ford in the episode. We all brought five movies to the table that we find to be interesting adaptations from their original source. We had a lot of fun with this one, it went all over the place, and it's certainly not a short pod, but we hope you have fun with it.
 
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Holiday Movies

Happy Holidays, all. Jack and Josh run through a bunch of old stand-by lists, in the spirit of rewatching the same holiday movies every year. We hit the classics and also have some fun wrinkles to add. We love holiday movies here at the long list and try to do them justice with this episode. We hope everyone has a happy and fun loving holiday season. And stay safe!
 
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WB Sale and Other News

We have a bit of a different episode today on The Longlist. Jack and Josh try to make sense of all the different angles of the Warner Bros. sale. It's an impossible task, but they gave it the old college try. At the end of the episode they touch on a few minor news stories around the world of Hollywood.
On a final note, a few hours after recording, the news of the deaths of both Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner broke. What a tragic loss that shook the world of movies to it's core. We're sure to do a Rob Reiner episode down the line, but we didn't talk about it much in this podcast because it happened after recording. Thoughts, love and prayers go out to the family and loved ones.
 
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Dumb and Dumber

In this episode, Jack and Josh are joined by their good friend, Austin Thompson to discuss one of the wildest and most endearing comedies of the 90s, Dumb and Dumber. Remember when studios use to make comedies? Like, all the time? It doesn't seem to happen as much anymore, but the mid 90s were ripe with comedies and this one is one of the best. And Jim Carrey hit the scene like a wildfire and took over Hollywood for a few years. We had a lot of fun breaking down this movie and we hope you have fun listening.
 
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Romantic Comedy Draft

It's the ROMANTIC COMEDY DRAFT!!! For this episode, Josh and Jack are joined by their respective significant others, Jack's fiance, Alex and Josh's wife, Rebecca. For the draft, the goal is to create your ideal romantic comedy using other aspects of iconic rom coms. We had 9 categories to fill out and four drafters, so that totaled 36 movies drafted in all. We had a bunch of fun talking about all these movies and left some really big ones un-drafted as well. Enjoy!
 
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