{"id":9058,"date":"2026-01-30T01:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:15:41","slug":"field-of-dreams-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/movies\/field-of-dreams-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Field of Dreams (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/39932245\/height\/100\/width\/\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/custom\/tdest_id\/4706482\/custom-color\/87A93A\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p data-start=\"198\" data-end=\"620\">This week, Shat The Movies heads to rural Iowa for\u00a0<em data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"297\">Field of Dreams<\/em>, the baseball fantasy that turns whispered voices, cornfields and unresolved daddy issues into cinematic magic. This episode is especially meaningful as it marks the first episode edited by our first-ever intern, Elias, officially ushering in a new era for the show. If you build it\u2026 apparently Elias will cut it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"1060\">Gene and Big D revisit Kevin Costner&#8217;s earnest everyman performance, debate whether this movie is genuinely profound or expertly engineered emotional manipulation, and confront the fact that <em data-start=\"812\" data-end=\"829\">Field of Dreams<\/em> hits very differently depending on how close you are to your dad\u2014and your mortality. 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