Whip It
What do you get when you cross beauty pageants, bruised egos, and a Texas teen on wheels? Ocean and Jim roll into Whip It to unpack coming-of-age chaos, roller derby mayhem, and the moment Babe Ruthless earns her name.
Join lifelong friends and film fanatics Ocean Murff and Jim Pullen as they go deep into the psychology, storytelling, and raw emotional power of the greatest sports movies ever made.
Strap in for a cinematic thrill ride covering everything from boxing to baseball, hockey to horse racing. You’ll never see sports—or sports movies—the same way again. The whistle blows on The Adrian Moment.
What do you get when you cross beauty pageants, bruised egos, and a Texas teen on wheels? Ocean and Jim roll into Whip It to unpack coming-of-age chaos, roller derby mayhem, and the moment Babe Ruthless earns her name.
What do you get when you cross beauty pageants, bruised egos, and a Texas teen on wheels? Ocean and Jim roll into Whip It to unpack coming-of-age chaos, roller derby mayhem, and the moment Babe Ruthless earns her name.
This week, Ocean Murff and Jim Pullen review For Love of the Game, the 1999 Kevin Costner film that is as much about loss as it is about baseball. It is a film where the act of throwing a baseball is about memory, regret, and the search for meaning in the final moments of a career.
Ocean Murff and Jim Pullen set out on an odyssey of their own, peeling back the layers of myth and spectacle surrounding Hidalgo, the 2004 film that dares to ask whether a man and his horse can outrun not just their rivals, but their own pasts.
What if a boxing match could change the trajectory of global politics? What if a single speech, delivered in the heat of a fictional Soviet arena, could thaw decades of ideological frost? In this episode of The Adrian Moment, Ocean Murff and Jim Pullen step into the ring—not to throw punches, but to wrestle with the idea that Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 classic Rocky IV might have done more than entertain; it might have shifted the tectonic plates of geopolitics.