The Tough Cut Podcast follows three good friends as each week they talk about movies in a tournament style bracket.

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Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? You&#39;re on the Tough Cut Podcast? That&#39;s right in honor of the spookiest month of the year we take a trip through the world of our favorite spooky mystery solvers. Join us as we take a trip down memory lane and talk about 3/4 Stenstrum classics and one truly wild card pick. Featuring, Scooby-Doo! and the Witch&#39;s Ghost vs Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase and Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map vs Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 37: Scooby-Doo I - "The Scooby is Implied"

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Another finale with the Tough Cut and it isn&#39;t one you&#39;re going to want to miss. Unless you haven&#39;t seen the rest of the bracket, you should go do that first. Join us for biting commentary on superhero regulation, Sean Astin, and much much more. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 36: Team-Up IV - "Biting 'Political' Commentary"

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Join us for another semi-final where we delay the inevitable and Jake finally asks the question why didn&#39;t they cast hotter people in a 1950&#39;s Japanese movie. This is sure to be a fun one, and you won&#39;t want to miss what makes it to our team-up finale. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 35: Team-Up III - "Hot Anime Swords and Hotter Bald Men"

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Join us as we explore classics, cult hits, mainstream giants, and hidden gems in this episode. There&#39;s sure to be something for everyone in this one. Also, we accidentally reveal the GIANT sponsorship that we absolutely do not have. Featuring, Guardians of the Galaxy vs Power Rangers and Galaxy Quest vs Seven Samurai Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 34: Team-Up II - "The Krispy Kreme Contract"

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The Tough Cut podcast is never late it arrives precisely when it means to, and so does Jake! With all three hosts back on the game, we return to our next bracket and it is all about the team-up. Join us as reminisce on childhood favorites and absurd popcorn action flicks. Featuring, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring vs Ghostbusters and Fast Five vs The A-Team Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 33: Team-Up I -  "The Return"

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In this bonus episode, Alex and Matthew team-up and crossover two unlikely suspects: Twilight and Osmosis Jones. In the thrilling prequel fanfic, Carlisle calls in a favor from an old friend to save an ailing Edward. Join us as we pitch a three-part alternate timeline Twilight prequel Featuring, Twilight and Osmosis Jones Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 32: Crossover Bonus - "Carlisle x Osmosis Jones - A Twilight Fanfic"

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With hurricane Ida knocking Jake out of commission, Alex and Matthew are left to improvise. Join us for all the fun of The Tough Cut in a fresh new format, where we rank some of our favorite advertisements in this totally unsponsored episode. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 31: Definitive Ad Tierlist - "Badaddads: Ads about Bad Dads"

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Join us for a BIG finale to our BIG bracket. We&#39;ve got honorable mentions from our funniest audience members, bad jokes from an underpressure host, and kaiju-sized comparisons. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 30: Big Bracket IV - "The Best Worst Joke"

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Guess who&#39;s back? It&#39;s three giant monsters with another episode about BIG things. Join us as we get increasingly off-topic, and talk more about movies not in these matchups than any movie in the running as we dive into our latest semi-final. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 29: Big Bracket III - "Remember When Charlie Day Said..."

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Listener beware you&#39;re in for utter insanity with these picks. Join us as the boys explore some of the weirdest and wildest the genre has to offer. Ride the weirdness and enjoy the laughs with us. Featuring, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs vs Promare and Big Man Japan vs Destroy all Monsters! Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 28: Big Bracket II - "Baby or Die!"

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Join us for a BIG episode in a BIG bracket about BIG movies. What are big movies? Big robots, big words, big families, big sicknesses. Any of the above goes here at the Tough Cut. Featuring, Pacific Rim vs Big Hero 6 and Cheaper by the Dozen vs The Big SickFollow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 27: Big Bracket I - "BIG JAKEY"

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In this bonus episode, join 2/3rds of the Tough Cut crew as they try out a new format where they pitch their plans for the sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time. Study abroad in Pandora is bound to get exciting with Jake and Matthew at the helm as one of them holds a deep seething hatred for the franchise fueled by the strangely deep knowledge of the other. Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 26: Pitching Pandora - "Study Abroad on Pandora"

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We hope your bookie gave you good odds on this one because no one could&#39;ve guessed this musical finale. Join us in this final as diegetic vs non-diegetic takes center stage during this joke-filled romp through your honorable mentions and our favorites.Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 25: Movie Musicals IV - "Jake's Pocket Stenographer"

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In an already controversial bracket, the battle rages on between our three hosts, what makes a great movie musical? Is it better to be more musical than movie or movie than musical? We may never find out, and we&#39;re certain what advances to the finals will surprise you. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 24: Movie Musicals III - "Something's Going on with that Horse"

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In an episode filled with hot takes, &#39;better&#39; picks, and strangely enough Nicholas Cage, join us as we work to find the best Movie Musical. Note the emphasis on both. No more movie and no less musical. Featuring, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny vs The Producers and Rocky Horror Picture Show vs The Road to El Dorado Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 23: Movie Musicals II - "Mr.Boney"

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&#34;Do not forget our name&#34; as you&#39;ll want to come back each week for new episodes of this bracket as it is going to be wild and fun. Join us in this first episode as we learn which of our hosts can sing, and why Hollywood keeps casting men that can&#39;t sing in musicals. Featuring, The Greatest Showman vs Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables vs The Blues Brothers Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 22: Movie Musicals I - "Zack Synder's Mamma Mia!"

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With coming of age coming to a close, the Tough Cut Podcast is finally old enough to drink so grab a cold one, and join us for another finale as we try to find out what the best of best coming of age movie. Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 21: Coming of Age IV - "Single Hot Moms in Your Area"

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A magical adventure awaits you in this semi-final: Bowie, improv, and auteur surrogates. Who will make it to the finals? And who will come of age? Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 20: Coming of Age III - "Out-Of-Bowie Experience"

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Join us as we talk about imaginary friends, what kind of dragon we wanted in middle school, and the fanastic movies in this bracket. Featuring, Eighth Grade vs How to Train your Dragon and Lady Bird vs The Way Way Back Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 19: Coming of Age II - "Steve Carell is a Naughty Daddy"

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What in the heck is being an adult all about? and how do coming of age movies help us get there? Join us on our journey to answer these questions and so so much more. Featuring, Booksmart vs Perks of Being a Wallflower and This is England vs Jojo Rabbit Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 18: Coming of Age I - "Age is Coming"

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Kick back, grab your favorite drink (Only if you&#39;re 21+), and enjoy the finals of our Oscar Season bracket to see what movie will win the second most prestigious award in the film industry! Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 17: Oscar Season IV - "Skol!"

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Another semi-final here at the Tough Cut Podcast, but this time it is serious. Find out the true secret behind Sonic the Hedgehog, why Jake isn&#39;t in our top three favorite people in the movie industry, and much much more. All while we celebrate our sweet 16th episode! Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 16: Oscar Season III - "Our Sweet 16"

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Only one of three hosts actually watched the Oscars. Does that make our Oscar picks less worthwhile? Absolutely not as the Tough Cut Oscar Season bracket is the real award show. Join us as we get funny and philosophical about the best movies of the year! Featuring, Sonic the Hedgehog vs My Octopus Teacher and Sound of Metal vs Another Round Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 15: Oscar Season II - "Eat Your Heart Out Industry"

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The greatest honor in the film community has long been the Oscar, but that changes with The Tough Cut Podcast as we go through a bracket of our own Oscar picks! Who will win? Who did we snub? and Who pitched Sonic? Featuring, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm vs The Vast of Night and Palm Springs vs Da 5 Bloods Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 14: Oscar Season I - "Can you Believe That Won?"

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Listener beware, you&#39;re in for a podcast! Join us and special guest comedian Ash Diggs for this one-off Goosebumps bracket where six episodes of the classic 90&#39;s TV show will go head-to-head as we search for the spookiest it has to offer. Featuring, The Night of the Living Dummy II vs Say Cheese and Die!, The Barking Ghost vs Revenge of The Lawn Gnomes, and The Blob that Ate Everyone vs Piano Lessons can be Murder Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 13: Goosebumps Extravaganza Feat. Ash Diggs - "Oh God, He Means That"

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The stunning conclusion to our Nicholas Cage bracket (alongside honorable mentions and a fun new segment led by our host Alex)! Two Cages enter and one Cage leaves crowned the winner unless a Ghost Rider shaped Deus Machina comes out of left field to take the win. Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 12: Nicholas Cage IV - "Four Cages and a Gator"

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Semi-final but fully Cage. We&#39;re still talking about Nic Cage despite 1/3 hosts being done with this bracket 2 episodes ago. Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 11: Nicholas Cage III - "Very Little Oversight"

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In a bracket based on maximizing your CPM (Cage per minute) we dig into the details of his filmography in search of--Something. Admittedly, we aren&#39;t sure what that something is yet though. Featuring Face/Off vs Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Wicker Man vs Mandy Follow us @ToughCutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 10: Nicholas Cage II - "60% More Cheese"

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Love him or hate him there&#39;s no one else like him in all of Hollywood. Join us as we compare the unexplainable filmography of Nicholas Cage and his Cagistic acting style. Featuring National Treasure vs Kick-Ass and Adaptation vs Vampire&#39;s Kiss ﻿Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 9: Nicholas Cage I - "Cagisms"

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Will our credibility ever recover from this bracket? Will Don Bluth forgive Matthew for messing up his name? Will Mouse Hunt return? Will Alex ever stop being so handsome?Join us for honorable mentions and the final of our animal protagonist bracket where you&#39;ll find the answers to none of these questions. Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials!

Ep. 8: Animal Protagonist IV - "It's Don not Dan"

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We dive into the semi-finals for our animal protagonist bracket to find out more about the wild things and where they are. Join us to see what makes it to the final, and to see why this episode is provocatively named after one of the hosts! Follow us @ToughcutPod on all your favorite socials.

Ep. 7: Animal Protagonist III - "A Portrait of a Matthew on Fire"

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Are the boys capable of following the theme on their second ever bracket? How well do they remember the movies featured on this show before picking them? Find out on part 2 of our Animal Protagonist bracket. Featuring, Life of Pi vs Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Fantastic Mr. Fox vs The Adventures of Milo and Otis

Ep. 6: Animal Protagonist II - "Richard Parker is the Tiger"

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We take a walk on the wild side with our animal protagonist bracket. Where the animals take center stage for most of these movies, and the boys debate what it means to be a protagonist. Featuring, Paddington 2 vs The Lion King and The Spongebob Squarepants Movie vs Mouse Hunt

Ep. 5: Animal Protagonist I - "The Wizarding World of Paddington Bear"

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The King, Queen, or anything in between of our first bracket! As well as some honorable mentions, which you totally shouldn&#39;t skip since it affects our analytics,

Ep. 4: Sequel Showdown IV - "British School Boy"

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Our first semi-final, so you probably shouldn&#39;t start with this one.

Ep. 3: Sequel Showdown III - "Starbucks and Old Navy"

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Hearts are broken and friendships strained in part two of the Sequel Showdown...Just kidding, but the competition is fierce. Join us to see what advances to the semi-finals.

Ep. 2: Sequel Showdown II - "The Ape Cinematic Universe"

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The boys jump into the inaugural bracket of The Tough Cut and try to get to the bottom of what makes a great sequel as they discuss the first half of the bracket.

Ep. 1: Sequel Showdown I - "Where's Rachel"

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Welcome to The Tough Cut Podcast. Matt, Alex, and Jake introduce the show!

Ep. 0: Welcome to the Tough Cut