Two Degrees of Ken

The Kens inside an Octopus inside a whale inside the Hotel Coronado. This week! The Kens discuss a slew of interconnected and profound life experiences, including dew points, whales, being swallowed by whales, the early Reiner run, Some Like It Hot, gravestones and Hotel Coronado. The connection? It's the friends you make along the way. See you next week!

Kendra has watched Backrooms, Ken hasn't but was open to spoilers, and spoil she did. Ken watched Is God Is, Kendra did not. He was courteous enough not to spoil and says everyone should do see this movie.

Ken and Kendra talk food poisoning, tap water, and sore butts. But they also talk movies! Kendra got to see Cary Grant's tan in VistaVision when she recently watched To Catch a Thief. Ken had 4 movies to recommend to Kendra, because he's insufferable. One of them was Dinner in America. Another was a French movie. Another an old Jodie Foster Disney movie called Candleshoe. And there's t...

The return of seltzer talk! Kendra tells Ken of a new show she has given up on after 6 episodes. It's called Off Campus and it has its charms. It's like Heated Rivalry except instead of hot gay sex it has pretty mild girl-guy stuff. Plus, Ken and Kendra talk about the latest books they've read. And finally Ken shifts talk to what else, movies, asking Kendra about her recent viewing of...

Ken and Kendra have both seen I Love Boosters by Boots Riley. They both say they loved it. Ken gave it a 3.5 on Letterboxd and Kendra gave it a 5 stars. What else is new. Other topics include: Keke Palmer, Hugh Grant, Fruit, Wine, and Drip Drop.

Kendra's watching the Other Bennet Sister. Ken is watching Widow's Bay. Next week they will talk about I Love Boosters. Kendra briefly discusses the big stamp convention. Well rounded convo all around.

The Kens talk modes of transportation, pandemoniums of parrots, and the necessity of tight pants. Ken watched Obsession and thinks it stumbled into being kind of brilliant. He also finally got his life together and watched Harold and Maude. Kendra takes a dip in the cool May waters of somewhere way too north to be doing that. All in all, refreshing!

AI Burgers and Driving dogs! An advanced world?! No, bad stamps, ie the apocalypse. Kendra and Ken talk the new Ralph Lauren stamps, LA Movies, Elaine May, Charles Grodin, and Lena Dunham's new memoir, Famesick. It’s another wild ride from your boys. We’ll meet you again down the road next week.

Thanks to a listener suggestion we get into our favorite Polar seltzers, the original Devil Wears Prada, OC characters, & giant roadside attractions. It's an action packed silly episode for us.

Ken and Kendra are back, this time discussing such timely topics as giant Jolly Green Statues, the movie Ad Astra, and crying in movie theaters. Ken saw Blue Heron and calls it the best movie of the year, and a true work of art. Kendra saw a Green Giant in Minnesota years ago and looked up his skirt. Has Kendra seen Interstellar? No. Is she still a stellar interviewer? Yes! Check out Someone Lived...

Ken's Motorbike, Kendra's Diver. Wait, is that a bonnet in a vast horizon of desolate prairie Kendra sees? It is Meek's Cutoff! Wait, is that the latest Steven Soderbergh movie Ken has seen? Indeed! Kendra extolls the virtues of Korean TV shows named Call it Love while Ken asks, "Is Sideways as good as I think it is?" We would love to lie, and say that's where his needine...

Ken talks an The Long Goodbye showing with Elliot Gould (super cool). Then they discuss their agreed upon topic, The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Spoilers start at 22:10 area. They laughed, they tensed.

Kendra watched a movie named after Ken’s favorite things: Pizza Movie. It's got a power hungry RA and she was LOLing over it. In other news, Ken has moved and Kendra was moved by a new way of telling a wizard story. The book is called Uprooted by Naomi Novik. Ken watched Velvet Goldmine and explained David Bowie to Kendra. Ken would like to solve a problem with Tesla drivers? He quibbles. The...

Ken vs Ken! Ken and Kendra fight for the soul the show. Will it solely be a place for platitudinal praise of the latest Hollywood pap? Or will it be a hard hitting expose about the dangers of reading books? Take a listen and help us decide! We discuss Sleeping with the Enemy, Project Hail Mary, Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood, Luster by Raven Leilani, Toni Erdmann and Goodbye Lenin.

Ken and Kendra talk Project Hail Mary, but before they discuss Ken's favorite meat kielbasa! It's not a euphemism! He just ate some for dinner. And a little side of canned spinach and maybe Olive Oil. Kendra gives Project Hail Mary 5 stars. Ken refuses to say that it's better than The Martian, despite Kendra's constant requests. Overall they discuss the center of gravity that Ryan...

Ken and Kendra are back on the mics to discuss The Oscars — what they liked, what felt off, and how stoked they were for the Best Casting and Best Cinematography results. They also talk Conan, Chris Fleming, Hedda Gabler and Snubs. Most of these things they enjoyed at least a little bit. Except snubs. They don’t want no snubs.

Ken and Kendra are back this week, discussing which side the oceans on, which way the light goes, a new show heavily based on an old noir writer (The Lowdown), and the newest book from our oldest fav, Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey). They also discuss two films from the 2010s, that special era when Kendra was in her 20s and Ken was in his 80s. Those films are the dastardly Leap Year and the winning...

Yes, yes, we put Dylan O'Brien in the title twice. But this time we actually talk about Send Help! And about Spindrift soda.

The Kens are back, this time discussing sociopathy in the Sims, the many blessings of cruise control, and a few random movies and shows that they’ve watched recently. This includes Ken’s review of The Bone Temple: good! And Kendra’s review of the anime show, Frieren: wonderful! The connection is as always their friendship, a bond that cannot be broken. Not by man nor deity nor fowl even.

Ken has moved and to celebrate watched a marathon of romance movies including: Love Affair (1939), My Brilliant Career (1979), and The Notebook (2004). Ken had never seen and wrote in his notebook "this is bad". Kendra wants to shame Ken for it, but fears being scorned for not having seen Titanic (or as she called it The Titanic.) Then Kendra and Ken discuss Wuthering Heights, a movie Ke...

Ken and Kendra discuss the Oscar nominations and then go long on The Testament of Ann Lee. Kendra just did a bunch of research for an upcoming video essay on the Shakers so its part review, part just talking about the Shakers. If you feel like we missed an episode, it was all an illusion! Next week, we'll chat Wuthering Heights.

Ken and Kendra talk the 1977 Paul Newman movie Slap Shot. Their goal? A one on one about naked hockey players. The social commentary in Slap Shot? The icing on the cake! They also talk When Harry Met Sally and Ken's impending move. Should we throw a parade for him instead?

Ken once again has an existential crisis regarding Letterboxd but he has Kendra to help pick up the pieces. They talk The Secret Agent, the excellent new Brazilian film, starring Wagner Maura. Ken says it’s amazing. He really has a way with words! They also talk Netflix’s latest People We Meet on Vacation, which fails to pass Kendra’s one test: the otherwise likeable lead falling for a horrible ma...

There is a lost recording of our original conversation about Marty Supreme (or as Ken calls it Martin Supreme). So we doubled back and tried our best to bring back our original verve for ping pong. Did we accomplish it? Not quite. We talk Marty Supreme and who knows what else. Life is a blur!

Discussing Hamnet 8:15 - 30:43 Ken and Kendra share their favorite movies of the year! More specifically, Ken shares his top 10 and Kendra calls him a boring poseur. Then Kendra shares her top 5-ish, because she's a slacker and did not do the assignment. But first, they dive deep into the mysterious tree hole of Hamnet! "Green!" Kendra exclaims. And "Get over it!" she says...