OK! So who wants to hear us talk about gooning?!
Also, it’s the return of the co-hosts of the movie prop podcast, The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, show-runner of House of the Dragon Ryan Condal and the showrunner of Veep, Dave Mandel! We continue our Classic Hollywood journey with the movie that invented the film noir genre, Humphrey Bogart’s, The Maltese Falcon.
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We liquidated all of the assets on our balance sheet based on this movie into our microphones for your listening pleasure. In honor of our movie this week, the 2011 financial meltdown classic starring Jeremy Irons, we also had a fun late stage capitalism discussion around the most recent near apocalyptic financial meltdowns and the impending AI bubble pop! We’re joined by the co-host of the tech media podcast Channels, Peter Kafka. We finally tackle the 2011 financial meltdown classic, Margin Call.
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Look, this seemed like a good idea. We just forgot how problematic this movie is. BUT, it’s always a great time when the co-host of the X-Ray Vision podcast, the incomparable Rosie Knight joins us! Come along and feel the yearning with us, for Twilight: New Moon!
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Welp, I guess now sitting members of Congress are coming on the pod. We’re joined by the trailblazing, first ever trans representative, Congresswoman Sarah McBride. She talks about the shutdown and how we build a coalition to fight back against this hostile administration. Then we tackle the blockbuster film that changed the conversation around what was allowed for gay characters in popular culture, Robin Williams and Nathan Lane’s The Birdcage!
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Are you hype for TRON: Ares this weekend? We sure are, but we figured just in case we’d lend a hand to help you get there. WAAAY back in December 2021, we had the co-host of The 70MM podcast, Danny Haas, join us for the Dune Pod Season 4 Finale, TRON: Legacy. Memmmorrrieesss... ANYWAY, it instantly became one of our all time favorite episodes. So, sit back and enjoy Jason and my quick chat about Ares & Legacy, and then this classic ep from the vault.
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This is a special one. First of all, we welcome someone we have looked up to for a long time, a true hero speaking truth to power and calling out the stakes of this moment with clarity and passion: New York Times contributor and prolific voice on TikTok and YouTube, the one and only Jamelle Bouie! AND, he picked one of the biggest movies we’ve ever covered on the podcast, Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 satirical sci-fi masterpiece, RoboCop. I’D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
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When the master Paul Thomas Anderson returns with a career defining film, featuring multiple Oscar worthy acting performances by Leo, Sean, Benicio, and Chase, you knew Jason and I were in the premium theatrical format venues to watch on opening weekend. But then, when the instigator of our first ever non-Dune related BONUS Emergency - Civil War (2024) episode, host of the podcast Channels with Peter Kafka, Peter Kafka hit us up on the DMs and asked us when we were gonna fire up the mics, we had to answer the call. So, please enjoy this very special bonus episode discussing this fantastic movie and the political moment we find ourselves in.
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We keep our classic Hollywood streak going (2 weeks in a row!) as I finally watch one of the highest regarded films in history, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard. And because this movie was a MAJOR touchstone for David Lynch, we welcome our Lynch correspondent, the co-host of the Austin Danger Podcast, McKenzie Wilkes.
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Look, there is a LOT going on in this very dangerous world right now, and we are so blessed to have the co-host of Pod Save the World, Ben Rhodes rejoining us to help make sense of it. And as we try and figure out which year is the closest analog to our current moment in history (1932, 1938, 1942 were all potential guesses), we look at things thru the light of a time when America rose to the challenge and proved the good we were capable of, in the Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart political-romantic classic, Casablanca!
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MOORRRRTTAAALLLL KKKOOOMMMBBAAAATTTT!!! It’s the return of the writer of Across the Spider-Verse and Beyond the Spider-Verse, Dave Callaham. He gives us more incredible behind the scenes details of making Spider-Verse and writing Mortal Kombat (2021), and then we cover his pick, the 1995 videogame adaptation classic, Mortal Kombat.
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BIG EPISODE THIS WEEK. Jason is AWOL, so we called in the co-host of the Cinenauts podcast, ctcher. And digital set designer Timothief! We go deep DEEEEEP on Gareth Edwards 2023 sci-fi masterclass of production design and cinematography, The Creator!
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Ever feel like everything sucks and you’re going to explode at any minute? Well have we got a picture for you: Billy Friedkin’s 1977 tight wire thriller, Sorcerer! Rejoining us is the Emmy winning producer and director behind Variety’s smash hit show Actors on Actors, Rob Schroeder!
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After 5 years, and one fateful voicemail from my architect Luke, we finally cover one of Jason’s touchstones, the 1973 biblical banger musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar! Joining us is the co-host of the Austin Danger Podcast, Kev. He turned 33 yesterday. You do the math.
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I survived 11 years only getting partially spoiled - but not in a way that ruined my viewing - for my first viewing of the thriller masterpiece from David Fincher, Ben Affleck, and Rosamund Pike, 2014’s Gone Girl. Joining us to discuss is the mighty co-host of the X-Ray Vision podcast, Rosie Knight.
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How can you tell we refuse to let go of Andor? Well, I found a way to include a clip of Diego Luna speaking in Spanish in this episode. Plus, we continue our Tony Gilroy journey with The Bourne Supremacy! We are blessed by the return of the Senior Editor of Engadget and co-host of The Filmcast, Devindra Hardawar.
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It’s the return of the 3rd living host of Escape Hatch, co-host of the Twin Vipers podcast, Jonesy Loves Beer. He and Jason talk for about an hour about knives and axes and then we talk about watching my first Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie, Goldeneye!
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Did you miss us? We’re back with vacation 2025 talk, including New York Meetups, Disney mayhem, the dangers of cross body bags, and adventures in home theater troubleshooting. Then we welcome Former Congressman and Lt. Governor of the great state of New York, Antonio Delgado! He joins us to tell us why he’s running for Governor of New York, and we finally cover Spike Lee’s 1989’s masterpiece, Do the Right Thing!
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Can you believe we’re still on Summer Vacation 2025 Break? WTH? To tide you over, we catch up on what we’ve been up to and what we’re excited about. Then we present a CLASSIC Dune Pod episode from our vault. We go all the way back to 2022, when Ian de Borja joined us to talk about his beloved A24 horror classic Midsommar. Do not miss this one (if you haven’t already missed it.) LOVE YOU - we’ll be back next week!!
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We kick off our Summer Vacation 2025 Break with a discussion of how our holidays are going so far, AV studio updates, what are kids are up to, and quick political recap (SPOILER: it’s not going great.) Then we present a classic episode from our vault, on the heels of its 50th Anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Joining us for this all time discussion is the co-host of the Bat and Spider podcast, dale_a and the producer of Jodorowsky’s Dune and the director of the Sharksploitation documentary, Stephen Scarlata! LOVE YOU!
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This week, Jason is out on assignment, but we welcome our very own scream queen, senior editor of Fangoria magazine, Meredith Borders! We kick off summer with the 1978 classic Hollywood musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, Grease!
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