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We're proud to introduce a new short video series we'll be hosting over the summer from video wizard Vic Berger with Ben Craw and Oliver Noble. The series is called "The Phantom of...
2024-06-18 20:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Featured player Alex Nichols returns to look at the creeping criminalization of the “edgar” haircut in Tekkkxas, the jomney sun-ization of the U.S. Navy, the state of the American “young” f...
2024-06-18 05:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post
To celebrate Pride Month, we’ve got Hesse and Ben from Seeking Derangements on the show to look at a slew of recent headlines in queer news, some recent moments of straight excellence (like John ...
2024-06-15 01:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old...
2024-06-13 21:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah little lad, I see you listening to my podcast, would you like to hear the story of The Night of the Hunter and The Friends of Eddie Coyle? The story of good and evil? Of a psychotic preacher sta...
2024-06-12 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, we looked at Trump’s felony convictions and the various weaknesses that brings his campaign. This week, we turn to Biden world. First, Hunter is in court on federal gun charges, leadin...
2024-06-11 06:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Chief animation correspondent Ben Clarkson returns to the show to look at the latest offering from Daily Caller’s original comedy content department, Adam Carolla’s adult cartoon Mr. Birchum. T...
2024-06-07 05:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix joins Will and Hesse to look at two films from director Mamoru Oshii, Angel’s Egg (1985) & Patlabor 2 (1993). Both films explore Oshii’s fascination with n...
2024-06-05 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
We have Alex on today to first and foremost look at newly released soda rankings. Then, we catch up on reactions to Trump’s conviction, examine the many Rubicons people are always crossing, and a...
2024-06-04 05:50:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The original bastards of law Tim (@GarlicCorgi) and Andy (@wyatt_privilege) of the ALAB Series podcast stop by to chat law and courts today and WHAT TIMING because the Donald Trump guilty verdict d...
2024-05-31 02:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Movie Mindset we return to the genius of Robert Altman. Where last we left our hero he was examining the American character through the lens of a whorehouse and the city of Nashville, ...
2024-05-29 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Chief Chapo foreign correspondent returns to take us around the wide world of conflict. We get an update on the war in Gaza including the bombing of Rafah, the failing floating Pier, and the Biden ...
2024-05-29 03:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe sit down with Mike Cheslik, the director of the new(ish) silent comedy action farce Hundreds of Beavers. We discuss his Wisconsin influences, ultra-DIY approach to filmmaking, making yo...
2024-05-27 16:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by DJ Byrnes of the independent news outlet The Rooster to take a look at the politics of OHIO, the most normal state in the union. With a trillion dollar nuclear energy scandal that...
2024-05-24 05:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we spotlight our first screenwriter with two films written by Dennis Potter: 1983’s Gorky Park (d. Michael Apted) and 1981’s Pennies from Heaven (d. Herber...
2024-05-22 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pendejo boys are back ostensibly to cover some new Greg Abbott shenanigans out of Texas, but we also look at the ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the collapse of Red ...
2024-05-21 06:54:51 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Bryan Quinby to review Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix film Unfrosted, about the invention of Pop Tarts. We dive into this bizarre & joyless cultural artifact which is...
2024-05-17 04:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are joined by Aaron & Carlee of the Hit Factory Podcast to discuss two neo-noirs, 1991’s One False Move directed by Carl Franklin, and 1994’s The Last Sed...
2024-05-15 18:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex is on today as we catch up with the weekend’s drama over the 2024 Eurovision song contest and ask which is more real, twitter or Eurovision (those are the only two options). Then, some disas...
2024-05-14 06:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of ...
2024-05-10 05:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post
David Roth joins us for a look at sports gambling’s rapid rise and infiltration of every institution of professional sports. We look at how it developed, who’s affected, the insidious exploitat...
2024-05-10 00:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by Theda Hammel & John Early to revisit director Howard Hawks, this time look at two of his classic screwball comedies: 1940’s His Girl Friday and 1938’s Br...
2024-05-08 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Will talks to Anny Viloria Winnett, a UAW 4811 ASE Trustee, Graduate Student Worker at the UCLA School of Public Health, and an organizer involved with UCLA’s pro-Palestinian encampments. They di...
2024-05-07 05:11:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom, Tarence and (welcome to the show!) Aaron from the Trillbillies join us for another week of horror and spectacle around the War in Gaza. We touch on the ceasefire agreement being rejected basic...
2024-05-07 05:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Riley from the Trashfuture podcast joins us to examine one of the few countries possibly even more benighted than our own, the dear old United Kingdom. After some brief remarks from Will & Feli...
2024-05-03 05:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse talk to Radu Jude, the director of the new comedy feature Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. The film features an overworked production assistant as she dri...
2024-05-02 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Will and Hesse are joined by Josh Lewis and Jamie Miller of the Sleazoids podcast to investigate the “blood, whiskey & shit” world of director Walter Hill. Tough guy action, guns, squibs, a...
2024-05-01 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex joins us again to catch up on the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests and the range of responses to them, from blatant attempts to provoke the protesters, to complaining about encampments ruining...
2024-04-30 05:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Will, Felix & Hesse review Alex Garland’s Civil War. War may be hell, but at least we’ve got those damn good bastards the War Correspondents around to get the one perfect shot that will let...
2024-04-26 02:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Movie Mindset season 2! Will & Hesse look at two films somewhat bookending the career of the great James Cagney: Lloyd Bacon’s Footlight Parade (1933) & Billy Wil...
2024-04-24 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post