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We Cover The Waterfront
Episode 568
Like a lot of family-owned businesses, Havenport, North Carolina's Buckley Fishery is having a rough go of it lately. If they can't make their nut and pay all their employees on fish alone, maybe...s…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Telling The Truth About We Were Liars
Episode 567
And that truth is: none of us thinks you should bother, including returning guest Will Leitch, who agrees that We Were Liars moves too slowly; shows AND tells too fart-sniffily; wastes the talents of…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Burning Through The 2025 Summer TV Preview
Episode 566
Summer is upon us, but what are we going to watch? Robert Krut joins us to help make our traditional lists of what we're into; what we should be into but aren't; what NO ONE should be into; and what'…
Published on 5 months ago
Taking The Down Elevator To Dept. Q
Episode 565
David T.'s beautiful son Taylor S. Cole is back to discuss Dept. Q, a Scottish take on a Nordic-noir book series that has the good sense not to mess with star Matthew Goode's face. Chemistry in trope…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Getting In The Big Top With Pee-wee As Himself
Episode 564
Matt Wolf (The Stroll) got unprecedented access to Paul Reubens, generally better known as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman; Will Hines joins us to talk about what resulted from their 40 hours of interv…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Checking The Perimeter With Murderbot
Episode 563
Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk is back to talk about Apple TV+'s Murderbot, and whether the books do a better job of exploring questions of gender and essential humanity without Alexander Skarsgard's …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Should You Ante Up For Season 2 Of Poker Face?
Episode 562
After more than two years, Rian Johnson's Poker Face -- aka "What if Columbo, but a lady named Charlie who's a human lie detector" -- is back for its second season on Peacock. Does it still deliver a…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Should You Try To Weather The Four Seasons?
Episode 561
Did Alan Alda vehicle The Four Seasons need an eight-part dramedy reboot? The panel -- joined by Alyson Lewis of Cracked -- doesn't think so, although one of us enjoyed returning to a version of a pr…
Published on 6 months ago
Bull Riding Through The Streets Of San Francisco
Episode 560
Heather wanted us to watch a 29-year-old Sam Elliott playing a cowboy in a Season 2 episode of The Streets Of San Francisco, and who were we to resist? We tell you whether the episode's worth ripping…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
The Would You Rather? Rath-boree
Episode 559
Most weeks, we confront our guests with a Thought Experiment to compile for an end-of-year special. But this time, we're the ones in the hot seat. We asked our friends -- past podcast guests all -- t…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago