Robby, Jaclynn, Cole

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Join us, three very different types of storytellers with three very different types of personalities, as we bring each other stories of all kinds to break apart and celebrate. In every episode, we're having the best time exploring what makes a story work, why it moves us, and why we can't stop talking about it. It's not analysis. It's not review. And it's something more than just a conversation about one of the things that makes life worth living... stories.

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Robby, Jaclynn, Cole

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Fantastic Four: First Steps - A Hilarious, Nuanced Discussion of Hot People in Space on a Mission 12.09.2025 36:52

We take Fantastic Four: First Steps way too seriously — so seriously that it becomes the funniest episode of the year, and we are fully prepared to lose some friends over it. EPISODE SUMMARY What do Marvel movies feel like to people who have never seen one? Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, is the film two of three of us...

The Princess Bride - How Has Anyone Not Seen This Fairytale Masterpiece? 01.09.2025 40:19

The greatest craft of the Princess Bride isn't its superb writing, but is in fact its unwavering sincerity masquerading as a bedtime story. EPISODE SUMMARY The Princess Bride (1987), starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, and Mandy Patinkin, is a fairy tale, a comedy, and — on The Arc (thearc.fm) — an argument about how a film can be technically clumsy (visible dummies, obvious green screen) and still...