122: We Watched Pearl Harbor So You Don’t Have To (Part 1)

About this episode

In this two-part series, we analyze Michael Bay’s 2001 box office smash, Pearl Harbor. Normie C points out historical inaccuracies. Kristin points out cringey dialogue. Above all, we ask ourselves the *important* questions. Questions like: Is Pearl Harbor just Titanic for boys? And, if this film had a $140 million budget, why does Jon Voight’s butt-chin prosthetic look so much like Silly Puddy? Finally, isn’t it cute that we made fun of this movie for being too long, but we couldn’t fit our own analysis into one episode??  Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, we pulled from: Baldwin, Tess E. “The Park Avenue Tunnel Wreck of 1902.” Discovering NYC, January 9, 2025. https://discovering.nyc/the-park-avenue-tunnel-wreck-of-1902/. Bay, Michael, dir. Pearl Harbor. Touchstone Pictures, 2001. Cutrer, Thomas W., and T. Michael Parrish. Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement. Texas A&M University Press, 2018. Default. “Huff-Daland Duster 1925-ca.1948.” Accessed September 21, 2026. https://deltamuseum.org/research/history/aircraft/crop-dusters/crop-dusters/huff-daland-duster-1925-ca.1948. Imperial War Museums. The Reason J