Reel Politik Podcast

Happy birthday Bob! With Jack and Yair joined by our boy Emmett Cruddas @roof_access, of the band Phil Graves and the Film Graze podcast, we review Bob Dylan's 2003 foray into motion pictures, the Larry Charles (Borat, Bill Maher's Religulous)-directed Masked and Anonymous. This episode was actually recorded precisely a year ago today, on Bob's 79th birthday, but after some delays in the productio...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY!!!

HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY BOB! Episode tomorrow.

In the hottest crossover event of the century (sadly Jack's dumb "joint episode" pun was lost to the sands of time) Jack and Geraint join/are joined by Canadian podcasting kingpins Luke Savage and Will Sloan, past RP guests and hosts of the podcast institution Michael and Us (@michael-and-us here on SoundCloud) to subject themselves to lovely Bruce Springsteen and evil Barack Obama's dreary centri...

go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe to access the full 1.25 hr episode! note: FFF was too drunk to record his own side properly, so he unfortunately appears in a poor quality skype recording. it's honestly a miracle the episode sounds as good as it does. anyway... at last! recorded last friday immediately after our quick local elections reaction, it's our much anticipated review of the rec...

Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe to hear the full minisode, plus a similar one for episode 202 and much, much more. Just a little bit of stuff that didn't fit into the main episode, including some sizzling repartee at the start and some deep London politics from Jude at the end, plus an unreleased live version of LOSER by the Grateful Dead from 1974, dedicated to Sir Keir Starmer. Full...

an all-star panel - including inseparable friend of the show & repeat RP guest Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2), plus both hosts of the legendary ALL THE BEST podcast (hosted @novaramedia); fellow serial RP offender, gambling reform activist and former Jeremy Corbyn aide Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb), and veritable guru of Bennite thought Max Shanly (@maxshanly) - discuss the aftermath of Sir Keir Starm...

NOTE: This was recorded on Friday, before Tim Shipman decided to blow up Keir Starmer's marriage with a tweet that lasted mere minutes but the aftershock of which will reverberate for years to come. Jack and Geraint look at the local election results, particularly Labour's loss in the Hartlepool by-election, and ask whether it's possible at this juncture for Labour's beleaguered leader to Keef On...

In perhaps our biggest blockbuster crossover event yet, we team up again with Sinan Kose on his hip, happenin' Twitch stream (https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader) to review Change: The Independent Group, the new revisionist history of the ill-fated centrist party Change UK by its hardline Gapes-Soubz-Leslie faction, allegedly edited by fellow splitter Ann Coffey under the nom de plume "Peter McNab...

Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full minisode. In this special kind of outtakes reel (ha ha! geddit!) from episode 202, the gang discuss the Change UK book - more on that later in the week - and the Simpsons' weak satire of Morrissey. Also featured are a couple of tracks from the JFR archives and the audio of an old Tom Foster original short. This clip is drawn from the CUK sectio...

Jack, Yair and Geraint present a classy evening of selected readings from the extensive oeuvre of "Roger Londoniary", a fictitious character/scam who goes by many names, gaming the online literary marketplace by shitting out half-formed opuses in every genre - but primarily sub-Bond espionage thrillers of the kind peddled by the likes of Tom Watson, in which we encounter the titular Ian Shag. We r...

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of material! After we recorded #RP201, we kept talking. The audio quality's not as good, but we're all there. Sadly no splashy cameos this time (beyond the obvious Sarah and disso), but more Keef-bashing, Van-exalting, having a go at Jack for being so into Van, etc, and this amazing story from disso about the Wu-Tang Clan.

A joyous bacchanal in celebration of our long, strange podcasting trip. Featuring RP producers Sarah Sahim (@hikikonormie) and tom disso (@nailheadparty) on mic alongside Jack, Yair and Geraint. (@wariotifo). Produced by Sarah, with additional prods (in multiple senses) by Jack, and special guest appearances by RP co-founder Tom Foster (@anotherlefttom), Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2), Nate Bethea (@...

Jack and Yair have been on the job too long - with three hours of Rough & Rowdy review released, there's still two more to go. In this section of our original 2020 review, we cover the songs on Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways album, from Black Rider to Crossing The Rubicon, stopping along the way at Goodbye Jimmy Reed and Mother of Muses. expect a long detour about the anti-cop folk classic Dunca...

RP's Jack Frayne-Reid joins Sinan Kose on his Twitch stream - https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader - to shoot the shit continuously for almost three hours, play requests on his acoustic guitar, and field questions on such subjects as Keith Starmer's abysmal polling, Van Morrison, and Jimmy Buffett. After about an hour and a bit, GapeCast auteur Farages Fucked Face and friend-of-us-all @participacio...

on the second part of our brand new review of Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Way, we take a deeper dive into the individual songs and ask why people will listen to a podcast of idiots like us rambling for upwards of an hour but balk at 17 minutes of straight truth set to beautiful music

Whilst our 3-part 2020 review of Bob Dylan's Rough And Rowdy Ways, A ROUGH AND ROWDY YEAR, airs over at patreon.com/reelpolitik, a new 2-part one, A ROUGH AND ROWDY YAIR, will be free for all to hear on our main feed. Please bear this crucial distinction in mind. This is the latter. Jack and Yair convened to record this review at the start of this month, and Yair produced the conversation. In it,...

NOTE: This is a completely different review of Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways album to the one that will be released on this SoundCloud page in two parts over the next week or so, starting tomorrow. This review was recorded last year, and will be released in three parts as it is very long. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to get all three parts of the extended review. In July 2020, Jack and...

Writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) returns to the podcast after a year to pick up where we left off last time; is Sir Keith Rodney "Kier" Starmer QC the worst political leader of all time, or simply the worst human being? Produced by Sarah Sahim @hikikonormie.

Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe to hear more exclusive content like this. This is a good old Jack/Yair episode, in which we discuss a myriad deeply impactful issues; there's the hilarious self-cancellation of the banjoista from Mumford & Sons, the prolific post-cancellation output of Mark Kozelek, and the brilliant work of the not-yet-cancelled Walton Goggins and Danny McBride. Yair, m...

Jack recently joined friend-of-the-show Sinan Kose on his Twitch stream to review arch-Blairite political commentator and ancient supernatural entity John Rentoul's new book, which seeks to positively reappraise the New Labour government (well, not so much the three years Gordon Brown was in charge) in the passionate manner Rentoul has utilised throughout his storied, centuries-spanning career. Ja...

Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode, which deals with the following subject matter: Rubbish mid 2010s "satirical" television show The Brink, Karen Fennell's Promising Young Woman and its co-star, the hated Bo Burnham, radium poisoning, politically vs - well - comically salient comedy and the Mel Gibson/Walton Goggins festive confected-classic Fatman.

the conclusion of our conversation with special guests Aarjan (@aarjanistan) and Nikita (@jeremywhorebyn) of @leftoverpod about Keith Rodney Starmer and his historically poor leadership of the criminal organisation masquerading as "the Labour Party". sidetracks on all the legends of popular music; Oasis, Neil Young and Freddie Gibbs. once again produced by @hikikonormie

As stalwart supporters of Keir Starmer since the creation of Adam & Eve 6000 years ago, it gives us no pleasure to have to do this, but our hand was forced into getting together with our friends Nikita (@jeremywhorebyn) and Aarjan (@aarjanistan) of the LeftOver podcast to call for the resignation of "Sir "Keir" in the strongest terms, as his troubled leadership hits its lowest ebb yet. The fabled...

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear this full episode, featuring Yair/Jack on Nightcrawler (2014), Buzzard (2014), The Cremator (1969) and Hollywood war films.