Secret Handshake

About Secret Handshake

The podcast that covers the movies that help you identify your friends...and maybe make a few more along the way. Every week, Jacob, Cody, and Marten introduce a new title into their ever-growing collection of shared favorites, break them down to the basics, and decide whether or not they deserve to be bestowed with the oh-so-holy award of being a Certified Facemelter. What spine number will they cover this week? Tune in and find out.

Publisher

Jacob Knight, Marten Carlson & Cody Bouchard

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Dec 2020

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 132 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   DuoVision #5 - Back to School (1986) + Old School (2003)

   We'd be great teachers...of what we have no idea. Two old guys go back to college to kick off a DuoVision mini-series with a couple of movies...about old guys going back to college. We paired the classic Rodney Dangerfield vehicle BACK TO SCHOOL (a professed Jacob Knight Classic) with the movie that basically gave us Will Ferrell, OLD SCHOOL (a certified Jacob Knight Hate Fest). So come out to the quad 'cause WE'RE GOING STREAKING!

2. 

   22 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Spine #90 - Brothers Till We Die

   Host Marten and guest Tomas Milian explore gritty Italian crime films, uncovering the thrilling underworld of Umberto Lenzi's collaborations.

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   30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Bonus Episode - Disclosure Day

   Host Alex Garland interviews filmmaker Steven Spielberg about his sci-fi masterwork "Disclosure Day," exploring themes of aliens, dinosaurs, and robots.

Inside a recent episode

DuoVision #5 - Back to School (1986) + Old School (2003)

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We don't want to get the idea stolen about what would it be like to try to make me like this today? We had an idea for a kind of throwback thing that reckons with, Don't give our money away. I won't. But it reckons with it's what built it. Sure. And we were both kind of – we had many long conversations about how would you do this kind of thing today. And I think it's possible, but – There's a fun way to invert all of the stereotypes that show up in these movies that we're going to cover. Yeah. Or I think about a film – Weirdly, like 21 Jump Street, which is able to handle – Which does do all those things. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

39 ratings

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