Welcome to the very first episode of The Poster Says... — and we're starting with a big one.

True Lies (1994) was the first film in history to cross a $100 million production budget, and the third collaboration between James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, following The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It's also got one of the cleanest, sharpest taglines we've ever broken down: "When he said I do, he never said what he did" — eleven words turning a wedding vow into a punchline, a thriller setup, and a romance hook, all at once.

Nate is joined by fellow voice actor Rob Sogomonian (one of his two all-time favorite movies, alongside Predator!) to talk through:

— Why nobody knows who wrote one of the cleanest taglines in '90s blockbuster history

— How Schwarzenegger personally found the French film this was based on

— The risk Cameron took betting an unprecedented budget on a spy-comedy

— Why 1994 — the year of Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and The Lion King — was one of the greatest years in movie history, and how True Lies held its own anyway

— What still holds up, and what's genuinely complicated to watch with 30+ years of hindsight

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Rob Sogomonian is a voice actor, narrator, singer, producer, director, and co-founder of Articul8 Studios — an eight-person voice acting collective currently producing the audio drama Static Shift.

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The Poster Says… theme by:
Dr. Ariel Alexander

THE POSTER SAYS... — OFFICIAL TRAILER

You know that line on the movie poster. The one that sold you the ticket before you knew anything else about the film. Five words. Sometimes ten. Written by someone nobody remembers — and somehow, decades later, you can still recite it word for word.

The Poster Says... is the movie tagline podcast. Every week, host Nate Begle sits down with a fellow industry pro — voice actors, puppeteers, writers, producers, and yes, Emmy winners — to break down one film and the tagline that had to sell it.

Why it worked. Why it didn't. Who wrote it. And why the answer to that last one is, more often than not, a shrug.

We're not stuck in one decade. We're not stuck in one genre. We're not doing "the films of" anybody. Horror to comedy. Blockbuster to cult classic. Nineteen-fifties to right now. Because those few words on a poster are the only thing every movie we cover has in common.

🎬 FIRST EPISODE: Thursday, August 27th at 7PM ET

🏆 THE CONTEST

This trailer opens with one giant run-on sentence built entirely out of real movie taglines. The first person to correctly identify every title referenced wins a prize — some sort, some how, some way, TBD. Send your list through the contact form at the bottom of natebegle.com/podcast.

🎧 LISTEN: On ALL the platforms and of course at natebegle.com/podcast

📺 WATCH: Full video episodes on YouTube!

🎙️ Follow Nate Begle: https://www.natebegle.com | @natebegle on YouTube and @natebeglevo on Discord.

The Poster Says... The movie tagline podcast.

Because somebody had to.

The Poster Says… theme song by:
Dr. Ariel Alexander