This episode of The Nightshift is a little different.

Instead of a deep dive on one movie, Shane breaks down the 25 movies he’s rewatched the most over the last 25 years — not the “best” movies ever made, not awards bait, not film-school favorites — just the ones that keep finding their way back onto the screen.

These are comfort watches, cable staples, late-night defaults, relationship movies, dad movies, college movies — films that hit at the right time and never quite leave. Some are great. Some are deeply flawed. A few are objectively ridiculous. All of them have been on more than almost anything else.

Along the way, Shane explains:

• Why rewatchability matters more than prestige
  
• How life stages change the movies we return to
  
• What makes a movie endlessly watchable — even when you know every beat
  
• Why “most rewatched” says more about you than “best of” ever could
  

From action and comedies to comfort chaos and elite rewatch machines, this solo episode is part list, part memory lane, and part argument with yourself about taste.

If you’re listening and mentally building your own list — that’s the point.

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Nightshift clocks in after dark for deep dives into the movies you love.

Each episode revisits iconic films through storytelling, performance, cultural impact, and the business decisions that shaped them. The conversations are opinionated, reflective, and rooted in rewatching movies that still stick with us.

Nightshift is about understanding why certain films endure, how they shaped our taste, and what they still say about the eras that produced them.

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If you could rewind to 17, would you fix your life—or finally understand it?

This week on Nightshift, we clock back in with 17 Again—a comfort-movie fantasy that hits a lot harder when you’re closer to Matthew Perry’s age than Zac Efron’s. What looks like a light rom-com is actually midlife crisis therapy disguised as a star-making vehicle for Zac Efron—and it works because the movie knows exactly what it is.

We break down why this was Efron’s real post-Disney audition, how Matthew Perry brings instant credibility to adult regret, and why Leslie Mann might be the quiet MVP holding the entire movie together. Along the way, we talk body-swap classics (Big, Freaky Friday, 13 Going on 30), underrated performances, rewatchable scenes, what aged well (and didn’t), and whether this movie could—or should—ever be rebooted.

This one’s not about redoing your past.
It’s about re-understanding your present.

Nightshift clocks in after dark for deep dives into the movies you love.

Each episode revisits iconic films through storytelling, performance, cultural impact, and the business decisions that shaped them. The conversations are opinionated, reflective, and rooted in rewatching movies that still stick with us.

Nightshift is about understanding why certain films endure, how they shaped our taste, and what they still say about the eras that produced them.

🎙️ Part of the Housecats Podcast Network
🔗 Network hub: https://www.thehousecatspod.com

🔗 Listen on audio: Spotify & Apple Podcasts

New episodes drop regularly.

There are writers who tell stories — and then there are writers who change how a country thinks.

Tom Clancy never served in the military. He never held a security clearance. And yet his debut novel was so technically convincing that senior officials in Washington wondered how he knew what he knew.

In this episode of Stories in the Seventh State, Shane Hall examines Tom Clancy not as a list of books or movies, but as a Maryland-made cultural force — a systems thinker who transformed complexity into narrative and taught millions of people how to think about power.

From his upbringing in Baltimore and his rejection from military service, to his years as an insurance salesman quietly studying risk, strategy, and cascading failure, Clancy developed a worldview where institutions matter, competence is moral, and systems — not lone heroes — decide outcomes.

This episode explores:
- How The Hunt for Red October reshaped public understanding of military power
- Why Clancy’s work felt “classified” without using classified information
- The rise of open-source intelligence before it had a name
- How Clancy’s worldview spread from novels to video games and became muscle memory
- The criticisms of his moral clarity in a post-9/11 world
- Why his vision of order, structure, and competence still resonates today

Clancy didn’t predict the future.
He taught America how to imagine power — and once you learn that language, you never stop hearing the sonar ping.

This is a story about systems, belief, and the hidden architecture behind modern life — told through the lens of one of Maryland’s most influential cultural figures.

S7ories is a long-form storytelling podcast exploring the people, places, and legends of the Seventh State — Maryland.

Each episode revisits history, crime, power, and culture through a modern lens, telling stories rooted in the Chesapeake region that still shape how we live, think, and remember.

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