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#491 - Stone Dead (w/ Jack Frayne-Reid)
Cohost Will asks your kind indulgence as he invites Jack Frayne-Reid (from the Reel Politik podcast) to has over one of his personal obsessions: the …
2 years, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #490 - Grindset Wonka
The thing about mass culture is, it channels the ambient wisdom of its day. So we applied this theory to the new Willy Wonka reboot WONKA (2023) and …
2 years, 5 months ago
#489 - Meet Me in Helsinki
Your coworkers are spying on you. Your boss won't let you keep the expired food. The coffeeshop is charging you an arm and a leg to rent a laptop. In…
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #488 - The Fourth Annual Michael & Us Year-in-Review Extravaganza
From THE FLASH to SOUND OF FREEDOM and many more along the way, we look back at some of the movies that defined the podcast in 2023, and hand out the…
2 years, 6 months ago
#487 - We Invented Chill!
We ring in the new year by raiding the fridge for some holiday leftovers. It's become an annual tradition on this podcast to try to extract ideology …
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #486 - Dream Story
To celebrate Christmas (and at the behest of our Superdelegate patrons), we took a flight on Victor Ziegler's Lolita Express to a big mansion in Long…
2 years, 6 months ago
#485 - Gun Kata
If society outlawed emotions, could we stop all war and conflict? This is the very, very stupid question at the heart of EQUILIBRIUM (2002), the dyst…
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #484 - Farewell Andy Borowitz
For years, one political satirist has dared to push the limits of comedy with such groundbreaking fake-news headlines as “Matt Gaetz accuses Kevin Mc…
2 years, 6 months ago
#483 - A Whiff of Grapeshot
The French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte have inspired a lot of takes... so, of course, you can depend on Ridley Scott to find the l…
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #482 - A Smorgasbord of Violence
Is Popeye the Sailor a deep Jungian archetype? Did Sweethaven's tax-and-spend government lead the way for Reaganism? Is mankind divided between Bluto…
2 years, 7 months ago