Thousand Movie Project

Wherein the narrator tells a buncha rumors while trying to make a point about how hard it is to cancel his subscription to The Miami Herald.

Wherein the narrator talks for a couple minutes about DON'T BREATHE 2, and then about Derrida's crackpot idea regarding "center" spaces, and then about why he's never quite understood vacation.

Wherein the narrator talks for a while about things that scare him, like interviewing an estimable writer, and then goes on to interview an estimable writer, Margaret MacMillan, about her new book, WAR: HOW CONFLICT SHAPED US.

Wherein the narrator talks about the latest installment in the Halloween franchise, "Halloween Kills," and also about a boss who fell from grace, lecherous dudes in film, and those moments when your subject is larger than your occasion.

Wherein the narrator, after recounting the finer points of his favorite early Superman comic, talks with author Douglas Wolk about his new book, ALL OF THE MARVELS. Wolk read all 27,000 issues of Marvel's expanded comic book universe and writes, in his story, about the beauty of confusion, the maturation of the brand, and whether Stan Lee did in fact hate children (this is the host's contention, n...

Wherein the narrator reacts to the SCREAM 5 trailer, and complains that it shouldn't called "SCREAM" (which is the actual title), and then tells a story about a very angry math teacher he had in high school, and how the teachers of "regular" classes were generally pretty shattered, emotionally; by the end of it he's remembering what it was like to buy VHS tapes on eBay, once the technology was obs...

Wherein the narrator whispers with undue stress about a long weekend he spent in a mansion.

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Wherein the narrator riffs about a president's first 100 days, phlegm and other fluids, and eventually gets pretty sentimental about the idea of having made a hundred of these things, and feeling a really sincere kinship with (and appreciation for) everyone who's taken the time to listen.

Wherein the narrator, having taken a full month to work on his book, eases himself back into the podcasting routine by doing a simple episode, with very few sound effects, in which he talks about Stephen King's two major thematic obsessions, and how they recur through his body of work, and then about some of his own (that is, the narrator's) more sinister culinary interests.

Wherein the narrator takes his insecurities to the doorstep of L.R. Dorn (the author duo Suzanne Dunn & Matt Dorff) to discuss their novel, ANATOMY OF DESIRE, the allure of true crime, that thing Liz Taylor did to Montgomery Clift's mouth one night on the side of the road, and making peace with one's own morbid interests. ANATOMY OF DESIRE is their most recent book, it's available here: https://ww...

Wherein the narrator recounts his Day of Study, which involved Afghanistan, Paulie Shore, white collar criminal support groups and Biden's Greatest Hits.

Wherein the narrator, short on rent money, gets out from behind the bar and picks up several shifts as a waiter throughout the week and ends up, on one particular night, seeing and hearing some heavy shit, and it messes with him, so he talks about it. "That's not on the menu"; supermom; disabilities.

Wherein the narrator describes a few articles from The New Yorker and The New York Times that he read on Sunday.

Wherien the narrator talks for a bit about a recent loss in his family, an ethically questionable thing he did as a bartender, one of his worst customers in recent memory--and finally speaks, at length, with the Pulitzer-nominated historian W.H. Brands about the craft of writing biography and history.

Wherein the narrator makes an episode off the cuff, talking about the news and how's he's simply too petty to ever be a manager, gives an update on the book he's writing, and also addresses why there was no episode last week.

Wherein the narrator talks for fifteen minutes about his own conflicted feelings toward slasher movies before welcoming New York Times-bestselling novelist Grady Hendrix into the fold for a discussion of his new novel, FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP, but mostly about the challenges of writing every day, policing one's own artistic output, and why Stephen King's novels can be as long as Stephen King plea...

Wherein the narrator muses on impending catastrophe, "living life to the fullest," accidentally eating an anchovie and the travails(or lack thereof)in acquatic lifestyles.

Wherein the narrator talks about being too anxious to poop in small public bathrooms, rambles into the territory of some vague body dysmorphia having some loose relation to September 11th, speculates on Bill Clinton's pre-vegan bathroom habits and eventually circles back to a point.

Wherein the narrator speaks with the author of one of his favorite books from the past year, HIS VERY BEST, a comprehensive and propulsive biography of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States. Also, in the monologue at the top of the show: Jimmy Carter, "Third Accidental President"; that maybe Carter's downfall is foretold in the triumph of ROCKY over TAXI DRIVER at the 1977 Academy Awar...

A brief episode wherein the narrator, while stone off the very mildest weed, riffs about how he needs to get better at relaxing, it's better being an adult than a teenager, and his ongoing project (in preparation for interviewing the filmmaker Charles Band) of watching Full Moon's catalogue of movies.

Wherein the narrator talks about his gambler friend, the drama surrounding a Michael Jordan rookie card, how he tried and failed to major in psychology thinking he could become a sex therapist and, finally, how Jimmy Carter makes it seem like being an ex-president is really frustrating.

Wherein the narrator, who is personally incapable of not talking, sings the virtue of his affliction, and encourages you to skim a newspaper's front page every morning for a week.

Wherein the narrator quits his job of seven years and decides to tackle podcasting as a part-time job. PATREON PAGE: https://www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject?fan_landing=true BLOG: www.thousandmovieproject.com

Wherein the narrator talks about things he's recently heard, explores the ethics of tinkering with a person's genes in utero, and then contemplates an Uber driver. Check out my new eBook! THE MOON AND HER SISTER TURN THIRTY AND LEAVE Available on Kindle for just a buck! https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Sister-Turn-Thirty-Leave-ebook/dp/B094JHP5FM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sorondo&qid=1623125397&sr=8...