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Jul 2019
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Kevin Bacon 🥓

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Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Tremors) tells Justin he’s married to his cousin, and what it was like to be there when Jack Nicholson filmed that famous scene in “A Few Good Men.” And Justin and Christian debate whether they’d rather give up all Kevin Bacon movies, or eating bacon.

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