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#669 - Just a Slob Like One of Us
At the turn of the millennium, one New Jersey-based auteur nailed his 130 minutes' worth of theses on the Catholic Church's door. We discuss Kevin Smith's DOGMA (1999) - the much-maligned director's …
Published on 10 hours ago
PREVIEW - #668 - At Long Last, the EDtv Episode
Long remembered as "The movie that isn't The Truman Show," Ron Howard EDtv (1999) imagined a world where an average guy became a 24/7 TV superstar. We examine how the ways in which this relic of the …
Published on 3 days, 16 hours ago
#667 - A War Room with a View
Just as Zohran Mamdani's New York mayoral campaign has written a new playbook for Democratic Party politics... we look back at the old playbook. We investigate THE RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM (2008), D.A.…
Published on 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #666 - The Veer of Libidinous Intellect
David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS (2012) imagines a world where a young Wall Street billionaire is insulated in his limousine while society collapses around him. Luckily it's a work of purest fiction. PL…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
#665 - Cheesy Movies
It's a Gen-X and millennial touchstone that anticipated the next generation's parasocial content. But how does MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 hold up in the present moment? We investigate via one of th…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago
PATREON PREVIEW - Luke Unfiltered Two-Part Q&A Episode
In a special, Patreon-exclusive two-part AMA episode, Luke answers listener questions. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/luke-unfiltered-142286283
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago
#664 - The Night They Censored Fred Allen
"When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesterday's happy hours." So said the most brilliant comedian in old-time radio, Fred Allen, in his 1…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
#663 - A Nice, Chill Episode
The boys enjoy a nice, casual conversation like friends sometimes have - and invite you along to join! Topics discussed include Trump on the cover of Time Magazine, Bari Weiss at CBS, Justin Trudeau'…
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
#662 - Essential Paragraphs
On this very special episode, we share some of the most important individual paragraphs of writing in our lives - paragraphs that have planted acorns in our brains that have grown over time into migh…
Published on 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #661 - Our Elections are the Envy of the World (Newsroom Part 18)
We finally reach the end of Season Two of Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM. The two-parter finale ELECTION NIGHT PART I and II sends us on a nostalgic reverie back to the 2012 - the last election before e…
Published on 1 month ago