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What new wine law nonsense has Scott & Jamie mad as hell today? What is YOUR favorite musical number from this absurd, queer, joyful cult-classic and why is it Meatloaf’s only song, “Hot Patootie”? Are you a die hard, callbacks-at-the-shadowcast type of fan, or do you need a big, red V on your forehead? Take a moment to safely open some Spanish bubbly and get ready to do the Time Warp again! T...

Just how fast did Scott down his cocktail, and does Jamie have any room to criticize considering he brought two? Why does the presence of a multilingual person make our hosts feel inadequate? Who’s YOUR preferred Dumbledore? (RIP Richard Harris and Michael Gambon). What is it about the “book is always better” crowd that is so damned annoying? Avoid the Womping Willow and Jamie’s ramp-infused gin a...

Part FIVE of our Comfort Food Movies Miniseries! Which gremlin is your favorite: Spider Gremlin, Bat Gremline, Electric Gremlin, Veggie Gremlin, Googly-eyed Gremlin, Brainy Gremlin, or Greta the Lady Gremlin? ( Yes, those are all actually in the movie. ) Do our hosts have a better understanding of their longtime friend now that they’ve seen one of his foundational movies? What is it about the Fing...

Part FOUR of our Comfort Food Movies Miniseries! Which of Point Break ’s heroes would’ve been a TikTok anti-vaxxer and which would’ve voted for T****? What character inspires our guest whenever she needs to knock a man down a peg? And would anyone from this movie drink either of the fancy ciders Jamie paired? Grab your board, your gun, a rubber Reagan mask, and get me two meatball sandwiches, caus...

Part Three of our Comfort Food Movies Miniseries! (NOW WITH GUESTS!) How does a largely forgotten and unapologetically stupid send-up of Hong Kong martial arts movies hold up to our 2023 sensibilities? What memories are conjured by drinking this well-branded, cocktail focused Japanese whiskey from spirits giant Beam-Suntory? And is “Onion Wine” actually impossible to make, or is Jamie just too sca...

Part Two of our Comfort Food Movies Miniseries! What is the origin story of Jamie’s life-long love affair with Jurassic Park ? Does Scott have any affinity for the ubiquitous champagne featured prominently in the movie, or is this just spite backfiring? And where does Jamie get off blaming Steven Spielberg for him failing out of college? Fire up the movie, pop a bottle of the good stuff, and hold...

What happens to your brain when you watch seven Missions Impossible in a week? How do Scott and Jamie rate the latest entry in the long-running Tom Cruise spy-action-thriller franchise? Which is your favorite Ethan Hunt super power? And why did Jamie choose this one-off episode about the best current action franchise for a weird, hybrid, Pet-nat pairing? Your mission, should you choose to accept i...

Part One of our Comfort Food Movies Miniseries! ZODIAC is a 2007 film from director David Fincher, writer James Vanderbilt, and stars Jake Gyllenhall, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. among many, many others. It is strangely unstreamable in the U.S. right now, unless you have Paramount+ or Showtime via Roku, or Paramount+ via AppleTV. You can rent or purchase it digitally wherever you normally...

The Epic Conclusion of our Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum miniseries! After weeks of talking about blind tasting, can Jamie successfully identify this classic NZ Sauvy Bobby sight unseen? Given the outsized impact of Kenneth Anger on American cinema and the culture at large, why did Scott delay one of his films until the very end of this miniseries? Answers to those burning questions await...

Part 6 of our Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum miniseries Can Scott successfully defend the first ever feature documentary while simultaneously pointing out all the ways that it’s total bunk? Will Jamie make a compelling argument that maybe all the Chianti minutiae he’s memorized is actually not that useful to know? Have our intrepid hosts solved all the problems of education in their respect...

Part 5 of our Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum miniseries Has Jamie successfully demonstrated the value of the deductive tasting method? And, more importantly, has he convinced Scott that the French appellation system isn’t so bad? Is La Jetée a fatalistic bummer or a beautiful romance? And why was Scott worried his co-host wouldn’t like this paradoxical time travel short? Return to the past...

Part 4 of our Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum miniseries Does Scott actually like this wine? (It's complicated.) Will Jamie reconcile his love for drinking Burgundy with his myriad issues with it conceptually? (It's also complicated.) What do the boys think of Maya Deren's dreamy, surreal, contemplative, silent film as compared to Bunuel & Dalí's from last time? Decant your Pinot Noir an...

Part 3 of our Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum miniseries Can Jamie adequately describe the flavor of a gooseberry to his co-host? What about this iconic piece of Surrealist cinema does Scott find so nihilistic, and why does that attitude appeal to Jamie so much? Since neither host likes the thing they picked, did they accidentally make a good pairing? Grit your teeth and guard your eyeballs...

Part 2 of our Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum miniseries Despite knowing about all the different kinds of Soviet montage, does Scott actually know what he has a degree in? Does the Hudson house white bear any similarity to this benchmark Chenin Blanc from Vouvray? Why is Comrade Jamie so susceptible to Soviet propaganda? Are we finding threads connecting film school to formalized wine educat...

Part One of Jamie’s Court of Master Sommeliers Curriculum Miniseries! Why are we dedicating an entire miniseries to the CMS curriculum wines if our resident Wine Guy’s got so much beef with their selection? Can Scott do the CMS blind tasting rubric with this bottle under the 4 minute 10 second time limit? Will Jamie’s love of whimsy overcome his disdain for the semi-imperialist narrative in George...

It’s the final part of our annual Oscar Best Picture roundup! Which is funnier: Scott getting hosed by his erupting bottle of bubbly, or Jamie’s story about seeing WOMEN TALKING? Just how bad is Tom Hanks in ELVIS? Did Scott accurately (and patronizingly) predict Jamie’s thoughts on TRIANGLE OF SADNESS? Don’t forget to take a selfie before your first sip of this wine, then hit play on this new epi...

It’s PART THREE of our annual Oscar Best Picture roundup! Why exactly is TOP GUN: MAVERICK nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay? Would Netflix’s new adaptation of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT resonate with our hosts if it had any, like, characters? Just how close to home does THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN hit for our best bro hosts? And what does any of this have to do with a Portuguese bubbly made...

It’s PART TWO of our annual Oscar Best Picture roundup! Is EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE the craziest movie to ever get nominated for *eleven* Oscars? If you didn’t see AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER in IMAX 3D HFR, did you really see it? Is THE FABELMANS a compelling narrative beyond the meta-textual Spielbergian origin story? Has Jamie found a winner in the Laurent Barth Pet Nat, or will Scott fin...

Is embattled conductor Lydia Tár a bad person? And more importantly, what does she order at the bar? Is this sweet and bubbly rosé a good counterpoint to a haunted character study, or would you prefer something darker and more complex? Will our hosts succeed in their New Year’s resolution to be nicer to one another on mic? Switch off any phantom metronomes and delete any compromising emails before...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, Y’ALL! Daunted by having to choose a movie that your relatives might actually enjoy? Stumped about what to pour before, during, and after dinner with (or without) the family? Good news: the boys are back from their extended hiatus (kind of) and feeling the secular Christmas spirit! Press play to be lifted up by the kind of scintillating, mature repartée that can only Scott and Jami...

Part 6 of A PHILADELPHIA TASTING MENU Has Jamie successfully chosen six wines in a row that please his co-host? Does this luscious sweet wine made by a master in the Rheinhessen stand up to Jacques Tati’s towering comedy all-timer? The tasting menu comes to a close with babka for dessert course, our first ever dessert wine, and one of the greatest movies ever made. Keller Rieslaner Auslese 2018 (3...

Part 5 of A PHILADELPHIA TASTING MENU Does this grungy, haut-cuisine, haunted Nic Cage drama pair in a contrapuntal sort of way with this bubbly, tropical, and historic Blanc de Blancs from Napa Valley? Share some dope Bao buns with those you love and press play on our latest episode! Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs 2018 is available at Crush Wine Co. for $32.  PIG is a 2021 feature film written and d...

Part 4 of A PHILADELPHIA TASTING MENU Does Bedrock Wine Co.’s pale, age-worthy, referential rosé play nice with Ari Aster’s bananas, daytime, slow-burn folk horror? How did Jamie enjoy the other, Marvel-flavored half of his Florence Pugh double feature? WIll Scott’s bathroom renovation trevails ever cease? Cover yourself in a mound of wildflowers and nervously drink straight from the bottle as you...

Part 3 of A PHILADELPHIA TASTING MENU Will this rosy, red-fruited, tannic Nebbiolo from *dramatic Italian gesture* Piemonte be a good partner for provocative, bloody, French body horror? Brace yourself, pour a whole bottle into one overly large glass, and press Play! Poderi Colla Nebbiolo d’Alba 2019 is available at Crush Wine Co. for $24.  RAW is a 2016 film written and directed by Julia Ducourna...

Part 2 of A PHILADELPHIA TASTING MENU Did Jamie enjoy his listener-mandated viewing of GREEN LANTERN? Will anyone understand Scott's triple-Venn-diagram explanation connecting food to wine to movies? Does this velvety, warm, old vine Patagonian Pinot Noir find purchase with this post-punk, pastel period piece that's all about the vibes? Grab a plate of pasta, some fine French pastry, and a glass o...