We once again return to the wellspring that is the Mind of Sorkin, this time giving a psychoanalysis of his life and career through his Masterclass on screenwriting. We begin with a brief history o...
2020-05-15 03:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt examines the End Poverty In California movement, and Upton Sinclair's failed 1934 bid for California governor.
2020-05-07 22:08:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A symposium on the State of The Orc in America.
2020-05-01 03:41:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We review Assassin 33 A.D., a film that is both a shockingly sophisticated meditation on Christian faith and theology, and one where Jesus Christ gets double-tapped in the head by a Tier 1 operator...
2020-04-24 03:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
BEFORE YOU LISTEN TO THIS EP: please watch "Pretty Ricky Midnight Special": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfWjXrV-h...
2020-04-17 03:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We conclude our Star Wars prequel commentary by discussing how Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith predicted QAnon.
Thanks again to @wagskoop for the star wars/salute 2 el chapo mashup, and to Cha...
2020-04-10 03:14:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Our friend, frequent collaborator & Star Wars expert Hayley joins us to continue our dive into the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Is Amidala a Boss Baby? How does 1950s Americana exist a long time ...
2020-04-03 01:29:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Our watch-with-us commentary on Star Wars - Episode One: The Phantom Menace, a film perhaps more dedicated to both race science and pedophilia than any of the many, many films dedicated to those to...
2020-03-27 03:10:57 +0000 UTC View Post
We attempt to summarize our general political situation wrapping up the first of potentially many(?) weeks(??) of pandemic quarantine here in spring 2020. Then, the second of our 2-part review of H...
2020-03-20 05:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of our 2-part review of Hulu's HILLARY, a documentary series on the life and works of Hillary Clinton.
2020-03-13 02:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded in San Francisco the day after Super Tuesday. We take a look at a primary race that has now definitively consolidated to a 1 on 1 contest between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, evaluate the...
2020-03-05 20:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss football and politics with running back for the LA Chargers Justin Jackson.
We are doing live screening and talkback of Good Vibes at the Iowa State Fair this coming Mon...
2020-02-27 19:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Our live show from the House of Blues in Las Vegas.
2020-02-21 19:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We wrap up Bernie's victory in the New Hampshire primary and take a look at the field as we go in to Nevada and beyond, including canvassing stories from the field and an explanation of just what's...
2020-02-14 05:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We celebrate Bernie's victory in the Iowa Caucus.
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2020-02-05 20:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We gaze in to the multiverse of electoral possibilities stemming from this inspiring, terrifying singular moment.
CANVASSERS PARTY @ Vaudeville Mews in Des Moines
We catch up on the New York Time's sputtering dual-wield endorsement, the increasingly barren supply of oppo against Bernie Sanders, develop a new theory of socialist-monarchism, and check in on Tr...
2020-01-24 01:42:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk about the Warren campaign's smears against Bernie Sanders and probably some other stuff, I honestly don't know I've been traveling and had a guest editor take this one and haven't had time ...
2020-01-17 14:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a full deck of Chapos as we discuss the state of the Iran situation, the Warren campaign, and our beautiful Generals. We then talk about Benny Johnson, memes, and the nature of art. Finally, o...
2020-01-10 07:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We look at the state of the primaries at the beginning of the year, and revisit an old friend as he reflects on overcoming a crippling addiction.
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2020-01-03 03:55:32 +0000 UTC View Post
In a special Christmas Movie Episode, we examine the copious Uncle Magic & Bolsonarismo present in the 1986 Sylvester Stallone film COBRA (which IS a Christmas movie, btw)
2019-12-25 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We give a post-mortem for last week's demoralizing UK elections, and discuss what we can learn going into our own 2020 election year.
BACK ON THE ROAD: Join us in Iowa City on February 1st an...
2019-12-20 19:08:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Our live show from Dec. 9 at Bush Hall, London.
2019-12-12 19:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The primaries new cycle keeps giving, so we keep taking. Joe Biden took us up on our suggestion to challenge someone to a push up contest. Pete Buttigieg is surrounded by demons. Hillary Clinton ma...
2019-12-06 04:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Your two favorite wonks return to crunch the numbers and check the heat on the democratic primary candidates heading inexorably into a turmoil of policy and and polling.
WE ARE RETURNING TO T...
2019-11-28 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We each watched one (1) episode of Amazon Prime's JACK RYAN Season 2: Office Jack Goes To Venezuela, and tried to explain it to each other in an increasingly loopy game of television telephone.
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Matt continues tracing the political history of conspiracy theories, this time asking: what happens when the conspiracy is real? We take a look at the network of clandestine "stay-behind" organizat...
2019-11-14 21:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by author & economics commenter Grace Blakeley to discuss the upcoming UK general election, and the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party seizing control from Boris Johnson a...
2019-11-08 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
International man of mystery Brace Belden joins us again to discuss two eminently spooky topics: the ongoing disaster in northern Syria, and the ongoing mysteries of Jeffrey Epstein.
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2019-11-01 01:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We lose all our remaining sanity points reviewing the Christian, gun-rights, vaguely anti-antifa, Kevin Sorbo film, "The Reliant."
2019-10-25 05:56:31 +0000 UTC View Post