The White Canon

Courtney Rawlings & M. Toussaint join Trevor and Josh to talk about Hal Ashby's White Canon masterpiece Harold and Maude!

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up - Hal Ashby's 1971 classic, HAROLD AND MAUDE.

We're joined by Gesha-Marie Bland to talk about Eddie Murphy's 1992 romantic comedy hit Boomerang!

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up - Reggie Hudland's 1992 Eddie Murphy hit BOOMERANG!

It's another New Years flashback, as we re-present the second White Canon episode from Champagne Sharks! Jared Ball, Matt Christman and Josh join Trevor and Vida to talk about Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet's masterpiece, Network!

It's a New Years flashback, as we re-present the very first White Canon episode from Champagne Sharks! Wosny Lambre of Hoops Adjacent Podcast, Nick Wiger of The Doughboys Podcast and Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House join T to talk about The Big Lebowski!

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up - a double whammy of classic White Canon episodes from Champagne Sharks, The Big Lebowski and Network. 

We're joined by Marcus from Pinnland Empire and Kenny from Champagne Sharks to talk about the almost canonical John Wayne movie The Cowboys.

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, The Cowboys (1972)

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Michael R. Jackson joins Trevor and Josh to discuss Robert Altman's 1975 masterpiece Nashville. 

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, Nashville (1975).

We flip this script for this one, and dive into the Black Canon with the one and only Briahna Joy Gray!

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, Love Jones!

After you listen to this episode, if you're interested in checking out Josh's new cut of the film, you can check it out right here. Highly recommend checking it out AFTER you listen! https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1096330034/42b8662702

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, Falling Down (1993).

Vida Starr is a radio and podcast host and producer.  Jared Yates Sexton is the author of THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A HISTORY OF POWER, PARANOIA, AND THE COMING CRISIS. He writes the newsletter DISPATCHES FROM A COLLAPSING STATE, and you can find his substack here: https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/    

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, the one and only CASABLANCA!

Two portraits of well to do white families in crisis. Mtume Gant and Rebecca Onion join Trevor & Josh for a fascinating compare and contrast.

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, a double feature of Best Picture winners - Ordinary People & American Beauty. 

We're joined by Pulitzer prize winning playwright Michael R. Jackson and journalist & commentator Michael Tracey to discuss the new production of Good Night & Good Luck on Broadway, and the recent CNN live broadcast.  

It's everyone's - everyone white, that is - favorite high school nostalgia flick, Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused, with The Lever's David Sirota and The Trillbilly Worker's Party's Aaron Thorpe!

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, Richard Linklater's 1993 high school opus, Dazed & Confused!

We take a deep dive into Steven Spielberg's 1998 WWII epic, Saving Private Ryan with culture writer Shamira Ibrahim and American Prestige's Daniel Bessner. 

One week before each episode, we're going to give you a heads up as to what we'll be discussing so you have time to catch up with it and get the most out of our next episode. Next up, Steven Spielberg's 1998 masterpiece, Saving Private Ryan! Earn this!    

This month, we take a look at George Clooney's Oscar nominated historical drama, Good Night And Good Luck. Our guests are Professor of Media and African studies at Morgan State Jared Ball and Citations Needed's Adam Johnson.