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Episode Recorded: July 4th, 2026 (07/04/2026) 00:37 - About Ted Efremoff himself. 02:53 - Inspiration behind A Refugee’s Guide to Rome. 04:43 - How did Ted meet Joseph Peters? 06:06 - About Aeneas and Virgil’s Aeneid. 13:13 - What’s Ted’s favorite Greco-Roman mythology story? 14:16 - What made Ted become a multidisciplinary artist? 16:46 - Jay and Ted discuss The Five Obstructions. 24:48 - How Ted...

Episode recorded: June 13th, 2026 (06/13/2026) 00:00:00 - Important Message. 00:00:54 - Intro and icebreaker. 00:04:29 - Begin talking about We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and its connection with the 2010s creepypasta subculture. 00:16:48 - The bridge between the 2010s internet and the 2020s filmmaking. 00:18:39 - The queer following of the analog horror subgenre and horror in general. 00:27...

Correction - Around 38:40, Jay has said "disruptive thoughts,” when he meant “intrusive thoughts.”   Episode recorded: June 3rd, 2026 (06/03/2026)   01:00 - Podcast starts. 02:30 - About Joseph Mbah himself. 03:20 - How Joseph’s filmmaking journey started. 10:28 - How Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight made Joseph become a film director. 15:40 - Joseph Mbah’s views on recent animation (including...

Note: We were supposed to have guests, but they were no-shows. Because of that, Jay forgot to share a couple things during the podcast and it’s too late already.   Episode recorded: May 16th, 2026 (05/16/2026)   Madzy Williams is back. And one of our former co-hosts has suggested we look into a  vampire action flick From Dusk Till Dawn, made by our favorite film director Robert Rodriguez and writt...

Episode recorded: April 18th, 2026 (04/18/2026) April is the Armenian American Heritage Month, this means Jay is going to talk about The Color of Pomegranates, that one Armenian movie he mentioned in last year’s Halloween Special. Before that, he invited two creatives of Armenian background - one is his close friend and another is a novelist who has his latest novel publishing soon. Mari Vial-Gold...

Episode recorded: March 21st, 2026 (03/21/2026) This is mostly a clip-less episode. Jay and Ryan are back with talking about A Grand Mockery, an Australian movie shot with Super 8mm films and set in the city of Brisbane, Australia. From there on, they discuss Australian film industry, how feature films rarely shot on 8mm films, and what would be the New Yorker animation equivalent to it. In the mi...

Episode recorded: February 22nd, 2026 (02/22/2026) Note: Yes, I made a typo on the thumbnail. And yes some of Brandyn's audio got muted out due to internet connection issue. It was too glitchy that I couldn't hear his explanation.  Please support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/ReAnimateTHISPodcast Black history month of February is coming to close and Brandyn of The Most Important Election of Our...

Episode recorded: January 24th, 2026 (01/24/2026) To start off the new season, we will be talking about a silent movie and perhaps the oldest movie we have discussed so far. Jay and his co-editor Jessie has invited Fritzi Kramer of Movies Silently , a blog that dedicates to researching silent movies, to discuss Georges Méliès, his famous short film A Trip to the Moon, his intentional colorization,...

Episode recorded: December 17th, 2025 (12/17/2025) Jay invited most of the rotating co-hosts along with Brandyn to his apartment in Brooklyn and celebrate the New Year's Eve party. Those who couldn't make it have left their voice messages. From there on, they discuss various things, including what they are looking forward to next year. Narration: Dom Valentini Audio Editor: Jay Whang & Jessie...

Episode recorded: November 1st, 2025 (11/01/2025) This episode is dedicated to Scout's grandmother Susann Tafoya (1937-2025). May she rest in peace.  We have finally reached the season finale, so Jay and Meredith will be talking about another Lars von Trier movie to bookend the very first episode. Jay brought his former mentor at the City College of New York, Emmett Goodman, along with the past gu...

Note: We have faced some technical issues before, during, and after the recording. We recorded this episode while Brandyn was on his way back home and taking subways. You are about to hear some roughed audio quality. Recording date: October 18th, 2025 (10/18/2025) Brandyn from The Most Important Election of Our Lives is back for this Halloween special episode. We will be talking about one movie of...

Episode recorded: September 10th, 2025 The September 2025 slot was empty, so Jay and his another rotating co-host Dom filled that up by discussing the movie of the latter's choice - Alex Proyas’s film adaptation of James O’Barr’s indie comic book series of the same name The Crow (1994).  From now on, we are inserting some scripted segments that give you some background information (about the movie...

Episode recorded: August 10th, 2025 Jay and his co-editor Jessie Hymowitz invited Ali Khamseh, a Hammer Horror movie fan from Iran, and talked about three movies of his choice: the underappreciated Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), and two Hammer Horror movies with the great Christopher Lee (The Devil Rides Out and The Gorgon). We talked about the unexpected genre materials from Iran,...

Episode recorded: July 19th, 2025 (07/19/2025) Meredith Nudo is back along with another rotating co-host Alex Beige . We are going to discuss Cory Finley's directorial feature debut Thoroughbreds (2017) and how it is compatible with the overall style of, as Meredith argues, Satoshi Kon's psychological thriller classic Perfect Blue (1997). We're also discussing the challenges of adapting plays into...

Episode recorded: June 14th, 2025 (06/14/2025) This is where me and my new co-host Madzy Williams will be talking about the adult-only, French-language anthropomorphic animal puppet movie about the notorious Marquis during the French revolution and it has a talking peepee. And we discuss how I could turn that into a cut-out animated show made for late-night television audiences. But here are a few...

Episode recorded: May 12th, 2025 (05/12/2025) Meredith is still on the break. We will get another episode out once she is available. Filmmaker, film critic, and video essayist Scout Tafoya came to talk about Anthony Mann, his post-revolution France film noir thriller Reign of Terror (1949), Mann and his cinematographer John Alton's long-lasting influences in filmmaking and visual arts, anti-author...

Episode recorded: April 27th, 2025 (04/27/2025)   Meredith couldn't be here to record, so I brought in a last-minute guest to fill her role. We talked about Luc Besson's space adventure masterpiece and his tribute to Valérian et Laureline comic book series, which he grew up reading as a teen boy in France. From there on, we talked about Bruce Willis and how much he was the lightning in a bottle an...

Jay and Meredith talk about one danskjävlar Lars von Trier challenging another Danish scum Jørgen Leth to redo the latter's live-action short film The Perfect Human five times based on the former's restrictions. And one of those five obstructions (and one of five main inspirations behind this podcast) is remaking the short into a "cartoon" in spite of their hatred of animation. We will talk extens...