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HAPPY ELECTION DAY! Please go vote and go vote for the good guys. HOPEFULLY this turns out well, but we got a fantastic guest, someone I've been wanting to talk to for a long time: New York Times columnist and moviewatcher extraordinaire Jamelle Bouie! Jamelle, in addition to his writing work, hosts the Unclear and Present Danger podcast with John Ganz, where they delve into the world of 90s p...

RIO PODDO continues with the second of the CORE WESTERNS, which is, of course, John Ford's landmark 1939 film Stagecoach. Really happy to have discussed this one! We talk a lot about it + Ford's outsize influence on the Western genre. Follow Michael here: https://linktr.ee/sharkeyflor CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introduction to Stagecoach and Its Significance 00:07:24 Class Relations 00:19:18 The My...

Was so fun to talk with ODETTE ALDRICH, who made an absolutely INCREDIBLE movie that is hopefully playing near you ASAP. Really excited for people to see this one, I loved it! It is playing at LES CAVES ST SABIN in Paris, France on October 16th at 2300 local time, I am so jealous I don't get to go to a medieval night club and see this. One day though!! Follow the movie and stuff here: https://...

DADS GOING CRAZY! This was a fun episode, apologies as always for talking WAY too much because when listening back I was like "DANG I wanted to hear from Tiff more!". She really is excellent and has great writing + videos, follow her her: tiffchat.substack.com tiktok.com/@tiffchat https://www.instagram.com/tiffchat1/ CHAPTERS 00:01:18 Introduction to Tiffany and Her Work 00:07:02 Brecht...

RIO PODDO is a new series with me and Michael aka Sharkeyflor in which we're gonna go through WESTERNS. Think of it as like a lil miniseries on a specific subgenre. Planning on doing more of these, let us know what you think! Follow Michael here: https://linktr.ee/sharkeyflor Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction to Rio Poddo 00:11:09 Kleos: The Ancient Concept of Glory 00:19:58 Themes of Violence an...

SCI-FI MADNESS!!!! SCI-FI MYSTERY??? SCI-FI SOVIET AND AMERICAN STUFF!!! I am VERY pleased to have my good friend bridgeonfilm_, my ally in the fight against sensitive billionaires and the entire capitalist pigdog class. So we are going to 2011 and 1986 to watch a VERY fun pair of movies. Please follow Bridge: https://www.tiktok.com/@bridgeonfilm_ https://www.instagram.com/bridgeonfilm_ THEMES sci...

WHAT AN EP! I say that a lot but seriously folks: this one was intense and so rewarding. Many thanks to Cameron Mitchell for showing me is excellent documentary DISPOSABLE HUMANITY (2026), which is coming out TODAY! Please go support it: The premiere is September 4th at 4pm Eastern: https://watch.eventive.org/disposablehumanity/play/6a7868d1bdb10f0bb45affc6 And you can also find it permanently her...

shoutout to all the QUEENS who may or may not have [redacted] their husbands thereby turning them into prophets/leaders/et cetera. We get a rundown of that phenomenon as well as two HIGHLY RELEVANT movies from last year and 1960. Super fun episode, I could listen Kristina talk for hours! Please follow her: https://www.kristinareinis.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@kristina.reinis https://www.instagra...

THE COOLEST THING YET FOR THE POD! Thank you so much to Emma and the crew for hosting me back in February. I loved talking about the documentary, Highlander, the mission, movies, and everything else! Emma will be back on FOR SURE to talk Cyd Charisse, and I can't wait! Topics Highlander Center, social movements, community organizing, activism, intersectionality, history, civil rights, education, s...

SPEAK A LIL JOHN WATERS FOR EM MEGAN. We are BACK with returning guest and irl spouse of mine Megan aka Magenta Elogy, who is boldly popping my John Waters cherry as though a giant lobster would: showing up out of nowhere and saying "WE MUST POD ON JOHN WATERS" until I become truly in a mania and start scaring some people. What a friend!!! Today we are taking a trip to THE CUCK LABORATOR...

HELLO HELLO sorry for the DELAY, I have been streaming too much and working on LONGER VIDEOS, so that means I am still trying to BALANCE my WORKLOAD. I don't know why I'm yelling. Basically, I am going to get back to a regular schedule on this. I still have a big backlog! Because eps like this are super fun! We recorded this a while back, and I really loved going back and listening to it....

GO SEE $POSITIONS, SERIOUSLY! Feel free to listen to the pod first, it's spoiler-free, but please go see this movie. It's really great, and Brandon is super exciting new talent. Longtime Trade Movies heads will know that I am constantly wishing we had people doing more varieties of movies, and the concoction Brandon made here with a mix of Safdie brothers and 90s comedy and all kinds of ol...

ISEKAI MADNESS with MEGAN MCKELLI, actress/content creator/cosplayer/online person extraordinaire. This was a super fun one. I've been meaning to watch A Knight's Tale again since I was a kid, and it gave me a chance to make a truly insane pick in The Devil's Bride, which is absolutely worth watching but is also insane and Eastern European in a way that few things really are. What a gr...

a DREAM. Thank you so much to Jared for appearing on the podcast to discuss his book. I CANNOT recommend it enough, even if you just like a legal thriller, he's such a great writer, but this is genuinely one of the most important and underknown stories of the 21st century...because coal ash is everywhere. Also, we loosely discuss A Civil Action (1998), by Steven Zaillian. Go buy Jared's bo...

SPECIAL TRI-EPISODE WHATTTTT???? Yes, so, Isabel is a fantastically knowledgeable Louise Brooks gal, so I wanted to have her on to discuss Pandora's Box and Louise Brooks in general. And I picked Something Wild to go along with it, since I knew one of the characters was big into Brooks, too. BUT THEN I watched Star 80 by Bob Fosse by happenstance around the time of the ep, and Isabel was nice...

we're trying something NEW HERE, folks! I flapped my wings and flew out to Fort Worth, Texas to visit Scott Winterrowd at the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth, Texas to do a MUSEUMCAST. I don't know what actually to call it, but think of it as a tour of some really cool stuff through a very cool museum with stuff set to it. Kind of a slidecast, to borrow a Well There's Your Problem...

oh my GOODNESS I'VE BEEN WAITING TO PUT THIS ONE OUT FOR SO LONG!!! One of the funniest and most exciting episodes I've ever done. I'm so glad I got to meet and make friends with Pat, he's so incredibly funny and I am totally convinced about Bad Boys II now. Such an incredibly fun one!! Find Pat at: https://www.tiktok.com/@nomdecoom https://www.instagram.com/nomdecoom/ TOPICS Bad B...

MUCH FUN with my main man Lucas Waterfill discussing two all-timers. Absolutely loved My Left Foot, and loved Freaks since the first time I saw it, so I was real happy to do this ep! Lucas is doing standup at: GO BANANAS, Cincinnati, OH, March 19-21 HELIUM, Indianapolis, IN, April 2-4 Be sure to follow him on all platforms and check out other dates here: https://www.lucaswaterfill.com/ Chapters 00...

oh my GOODNESS this episode is GREAT!!! I feel like the show has been building towards an hour and a half discussion of Skibidi Toilet and Playtime with arguably the world's biggest Skibidi expert, and (Louie Anderson voice) I LOVE it! Seriously, this was so much fun. I feel like I talked too much as I often do so sorry to the listeners who wanted to hear more of Aidan (I did too I'm just not the...

ARGUABLY MY FAVORITE EPISODE I'VE DONE SO FAR?? This one was so unbelievably fun and fulfilling. Chloe is such an incredible speaker and communicator on Appalachian issues. She has a perspective that I've almost never heard in popular media, both as a native Appalachian and an early childhood caregiver. Truly one of the most admirable and inspiring people I've met doing this. And these...

In which we discuss "Citizen Langlois" (1995) and "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" (1992). Matt Ellis is a writer/academic/musician from Portland, Oregon. He has a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and studies media, culture, and history from the left. He is teaching a class on France in the 1960s on Cinejourneys from January 27th through February 17th. It’s...

EMMA GETS THE FIRST CHALLENGE COIN as our first two-time guest! This was supposed to be a Christmas episode, as you can probably guess by my hat...but things came up and I wasn't able to get it out in time. HOWEVER, we spend most of the ep talking about like a million old movies. She has seen more Classic Hollywood than basically anyone I've met, I think? Love having Emma on, I have like a...

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME BABY! And what better way to kick off a couple of Christmas episodes than with my FAVORITE Christmas movie, Trapped in Paradise, and the BEST Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life. Go find Bianca here: https://www.biancacastronovo.com https://www.tiktok.com/@thebiancac https://www.instagram.com/thebiancac/ Keywords Bianca Castronova, Christmas movies, It's a Wonder...

IT'S HEPBURN TIME with actor/singer/content creator/essayist MARZA WHATEVER. LOVED THIS EP and love her content! She's one of the very best video essayists working today, so PLEASE go check out her stuff! You can find all of her stuff at: linktr.ee/marzawhatever https://www.youtube.com/@marzawhatever https://www.tiktok.com/@numberletterpunctuation https://marzawarsinske.com/ Keywords AI, M...

OPACITY. OPACITY. OPACITY. (Steve Ballmer voice) OPACITY. Today we are talking complicated financial instruments, the Fundamental Unknowableness Of Things, Mamdani, complexity, propaganda, and so much more. INCREDIBLY thankful to David for appearing on the show, PLEASE GO BUY HIS BOOK: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools and he can be found here on all socials,...