Best Sean T Collins Podcasts (2024)

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166: Road House (with Sean T. Collins) 1:43:37

3d ago1:43:37

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The writer Sean T. Collins joins the pod from Long Island for a deep dive into the original 1989 Road House and the 2024 remake now streaming on Amazon Prime. Sean’s book Pain Don’t Hurt offered daily meditations on specific elements of Road House for an entire year, and we discuss the many virtues of this eighties classic about Dalton, the second-…

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165: Deep in the Heart (with Jonathan Hertzberg of Fun City Editions) 1:23:29

15d ago1:23:29

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. The founder of Fun City Editions, Jonathan Hertzberg, joins the podcast from New York City to discuss the boutique video label and their latest blu-ray release, 1983’s Deep in the Heart, aka Handgun, directed by Ken Loach’s longtime English producer Tony Garnett. Deep in the Heart, a brutal port…

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TEASER - 164: Ghostbusters V (with Adam Jackson) 5:15

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Access this entire 89 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/164-ghostbusters-101387544 The writer and friend of the pod Adam Jackson returns for a show about the Ghostbusters series, which …

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163: Tenet (with Corey Atad) 1:44:24

23d ago1:44:24

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The writer Corey Atad joins me from Phuket, Thailand for a sequel to our Junk Filter episode about Bane that turned into a discussion about Tenet, and we return to the topic because of the recent cultural reconsideration of Christopher Nolan’s 2020 time-bending thriller, which was released during the pandemic and has taken some time to find an audi…

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TEASER - 162: The Zone of Interest (with James Slaymaker) 6:50

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Access this entire 99 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/162-zone-of-with-100893723 The writer James Slaymaker, author of Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann, returns to the pod fro…

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161: Dune: Part Two - The Kwisatz Tabarnak (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:36:15

1M ago1:36:15

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a sequel to our Junk Filter episode about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, with a look at his long-awaited Dune: Part Two. Villeneuve said in interviews that he thought of Frank Herbert’s novel as an allegory for the French Canadians under the thumb of the authoritarian government of Maurice Duplessis that used the Ca…

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TEASER - 160: Burt Reynolds in the Eighties (with Will Sloan) 5:34

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The writer and podcaster Will Sloan is back for a show about Burt Reynolds, who started the eighties as the most popular movie star in America but who by the end of the decade was consigned to a series of B-movies that asked less and less of him, in the years before his unexpected mid-nineties comeback in Boogie Nights (a film he hated even though …

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UNLOCKED: 139: Oppenheimer (with Corey Atad) 1:55:34

1M ago1:55:34

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In honour of Oppenheimer winning the Oscar for Best Picture, we're unlocking our July 26, 2023 premium episode about the film. Over 30% of Junk Filter episodes are available exclusively to patrons of the podcast: you can support the show directly and get every episode by going to patreon.com/junkfilter The film writer Corey Atad returns to the show…

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159: Year of the Dragon (with Adam Nayman) 1:26:47

2M ago1:26:47

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence and racist themes. The film critic and author Adam Nayman returns to the show for a deep dive into Michael Cimino’s 1985 pulp crime thriller Year of the Dragon, starring Mickey Rourke, John Lone and introducing the fashion model Ariane Koizumi as the female lead. Year of the Dragon was Cimino’s a…

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158: The Sci-Fi Visions of Peter Hyams (with Brandon Streussnig) 1:41:22

2M ago1:41:22

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The film writer Brandon Streussnig (Vulture, Fangoria, GQ) joins the pod for a discussion about the undersung director Peter Hyams through four of his science fiction movies across a career full of genre work, films that reveal a singular style can be applied to a craftsman, a former Chicago newsman turned director who also (controversially for his…

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BLAH Special - Fighting Trump, with Frank Spring

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In a special, political episode, I talk with political operative Frank Spring about the upcoming presidential elections. If you don’t want politics from me, stay away from this episode :) You have been warned. Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan on Bluesky. Stefan’s blog.…

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BLAH 187 | Top Ten TV Shows of 2023, with Sean T. Collins

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Sean has written a list of the top ten TV shows of 2023 (https://decider.com/2023/12/29/sean-t-collinss-top-10-tv-shows-of-2023/), and we’re here to talk about it. Take it as your to-do-list, nod along or vehemently disagree! Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean o…

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TEASER - 157: Five Corners (with Kieran Grant) 4:09

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Access this entire 89 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/157-five-corners-96799903 The music and film writer and editor Kieran Grant joins us to discuss the 1987 comedy/drama Five Corner…

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156: The Cassandra Cat (with Ashley Naftule) 1:06:39

3M ago1:06:39

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Arizona-based writer and playwright Ashley Naftule returns to the podcast for a look at the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s, focusing on the recently rediscovered 1963 film The Cassandra Cat, and its director Vojtěch Jasný,. In the strange fairy tale The Cassandra Cat, a village is disrupted when a travelling circus comes to town featuring a mag…

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TEASER - 155: O.J.: Made in America - Part 2 (with Karen Geier) 4:33

4M ago4:33

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Access this entire 107 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/155-o-j-made-in-95579279 In the second part of our salute to Ezra Edelman’s 2016 documentary O.J.: Made in America, Karen Geier …

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154: O.J.: Made in America - Part 1 (with Karen Geier) 1:47:11

4M ago1:47:11

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The writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a deep dive into Ezra Edelman’s Oscar-winning documentary from 2016, O.J.: Made in America, made for ESPN’s film unit ’30 for 30’ but released in theatres (the Academy changed the rules for the Documentary category after this 5 part docuseries won). This episode covers the first half of this…

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BLAH 186 | Oppenheimer and logical insanity of nuclear weapons, with Tim Westmyer

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Oppenheimer has been released on BlueRay. Having missed it in cinema and after covering Barbie with Sean, I’ll now took BLAH veteran and nuclear deterrence expert Tim Westmyer to debate why Oppenheimer is such a good movie, to clear up some of the technical questions and to have a deeper look at the genesis of nuclear weapons as portrayed by Christ…

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TEASER - 153: Godzilla Minus One (with Ben Clarkson) 5:38

4M ago5:38

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Access this entire 93 minute episode and additional monthly bonus episodes by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/153-godzilla-one-95000376 The cartoonist and co-creator of Justice Warriors, Ben Clarkson, joins the pod from Montreal to talk about Godzill…

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152: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:38:06

5M ago1:38:06

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a show about Ridley Scott’s latest, the 200 million dollar epic Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. History nerds, YouTube film cranks and the Roman statue bluechecks on Twitter are up in arms about the latest from the Riddler, for straying too far from the real history and most egregiously f…

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BLAH 185 | Napoleon, way too short and way too long, with Steven Attewell

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Ridley Scott’s new epic “Napoleon” sure is divisive and polarizing. It takes two historians to get the definitive judgement on the movie, and it’s greatly helped that we are in agreement: this movie is either way too short or way too long. Either one. Download the episode! Torrent Our Patreon Stefan’s blog here. Steve’s blog here.…

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151: The Marvels & The Heroic Trio (with Jessica Ritchey) 1:26:33

5M ago1:26:33

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The writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the pod for a show about the continuing collapse of the superhero movie as the dominant American film genre with the latest MCU entry, Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, which cost $270 million dollars and after 4 release date changes finally opened last week and bombed as hard as a Marvel movie has ever bombed, especi…

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BLAH 184 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Democratization, with Jim McGeehin

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BLAH 184 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Democratization, with Jim McGeehin With Zero Hour dealt with, we’re looking at how the Western Allies laid the foundations for the democratization of Western Germany. From the foundation of parties to the Marshall Plan, the Allies were not exactly on the same page. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patre…

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10 - Rescuing Americans where others won’t - Bryan Stern: Navy intel + Personnel Recovery Expert 57:24

6M ago57:24

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🚀 Are you ready for a jaw-dropping rescue mission story? Strap in as host Matt Parrish welcomes Navy intel expert and Personnel Recovery pro, Bryan Stern, to the Prep For Impact podcast! 🎧 🔍 Discover the covert tactics behind Project Dynamo, the "Ocean's Eleven" of rescuing Americans from the most dangerous, denied territories. From breaking an Ame…

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150: The Exorcist (with Meg Shields) 1:17:05

6M ago1:17:05

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For the 150th episode of the podcast, returning guest Meg Shields joins me from Vancouver for a show about William Friedkin’s legendary horror film The Exorcist, which turns 50 years old this December. I had always been TOO SCARED to watch the original Exorcist (even though I had seen the first two sequels) so for this podcast, as a farewell tribut…

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BLAH 183 | Javi interviews Stefan, with Javi Marcos

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In a crossover with Javi Marcos, you’re getting an episode in which he interviews me. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Javi on Twitter.By Sean T. Collins & Stefan Sasse

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TEASER - 149: Terence Davies (with Ben Nash and James Slaymaker) 3:38

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Access this entire 83 minute episode and additional monthly bonus episodes by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/149-terence-with-91945894 To mark the passing of the great British filmmaker Terence Davies, I’m joined for this episode by two returning gu…

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09 - Transitioning from Combat to Corporate - Mike Vetra: Green Beret Leader 1:05:44

6M ago1:05:44

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📈 What's it like to be a Green Beret during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? What can we learn from a career as a Green Beret warrior to jumpstart our impact in our own careers? Today’s guest, Mike Vetra, is well-known throughout the Special Forces world. He's a GB's GB. He arrived to 3rd Group just in time to be in the initial force into bot…

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08 - Using SOF Attributes to Drive Business - Chris Robinette: Business Leader + Green Beret 1:02:54

7M ago1:02:54

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📈 How can special ops attributes and experience translate into the business world? What can we learn from Green Beret tasks to implement in the start-up space, and vice versa? Today’s guest, Chris Robinette, has been incredibly successful in both special operations and business, and he shares his lessons learned on today’s episode. Chris not only h…

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07 - From Recon to Raider - Red Smith: Force Recon + Marine special operator 58:29

7M ago58:29

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✨What’s it like to help start a new special ops unit? What’s the difference between the famed Marine Force Recon and the MARSOC Raiders? Find out from a man who served in combat with both!! Red Smith is a retired MARSOC Raider, Force Recon Marine, avid skydiver 🪂, and all around great dude. In this episode he and host, Matt Parrish, chat about Red’…

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148: Sam Peckinpah: Junior Bonner (with Brian Abrams) 1:20:40

7M ago1:20:40

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The writer Brian Abrams, author of the new book "You Talkin' to Me?”: The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes, joins me from New York City to discuss Sam Peckinpah and his underrated 1972 rodeo drama Junior Bonner starring Steve McQueen and Joe Don Baker. Right after Peckinpah wrapped on his controversial Straw Dogs in England, he jumped into p…

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BLAH 182 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Zero Hour, with Jim McGeehin

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Jim and I started a new subseries in our ongoing coverage of German history. This time, we will cover the divided Germany after World War II up until reunification. In our first installment, we set the scene in 1945, directly after the war. How did Germany look, and how was its outlook? And what is the myth of Zero Hour? Download the episode! Our P…

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06 - Leadership Matters, from Teamrooms to the Top - Ken Tovo: Former USASOC CDR + Green Beret 1:00:05

7M ago1:00:05

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What was it like to be a Green Beret in Germany when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed? How did it feel to see the Twin Towers fall and know you would be among the first to respond? Put yourself in the boots of a Special Forces commanding officer on the harrowing plane fight into Northern Iraq to link up with the Kurds and march s…

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BLAC 48 | Barbie (the Movie)

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In a surprise twist, we make a BLAC episode available for everyone! Enjoy, and if you do, pledge at the Conversationalist level and get access to 47 other episodes and everything that will come after! Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.…

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BLAH 181 | Designing board games, with Bryan Kromrey

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With board game designer Bryan Kromrey, I talk about the adaptation of the famous RTS “Company of Heroes”, how the modern Kickstarter economy works and how his process for a second edition went. Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Company of Heroes on Boardgamegeek. C…

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TEASER - 147: Miami Vice: GTA Vice City and John Woo (with Toph) 6:24

8M ago6:24

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Access this entire 80 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/147-miami-vice-88727844 For the eighth episode in our Miami Vice series, Twitchstreamer an…

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05 - Finding Laughter after Taking a Bullet - Pat Bacon: Ranger Regiment + Police veteran 1:02:39

8M ago1:02:39

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Pat Bacon is a Ranger Regiment veteran who became a DC metro cop and ended up in a scuffle for his life that resulted in him getting shot on the job! Pat talks us through his early life as a Ranger - the tough indoctrination, the foundational training, the deployments, and ultimately the brotherhood that will live forever. He explains his transitio…

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04 - From Elite Special Ops to Tech Sales - Sean Hurd: Ranger, Green Beret, + Sales Leader 1:04:15

8M ago1:04:15

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Sean Hurd is a retired Ranger and Green Beret, who's now has made the successful jump to the business world in sales! Sean talks us through his early years in Ranger Regiment - from combat at the beginning of the Global War on Terror to breaking his tailbone and continuing to train for another three days. He talks his time in Special Forces and the…

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03 - Chasing the Dream - Ryan Jensen: NFL Pro Bowler + Super Bowl Champion 1:06:56

8M ago1:06:56

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Ryan Jensen is a Center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a Super Bowl Champion, and an NFL Pro Bowler, but its never been handed to him on a platter - his life is punctuated by fighting his way back up after getting knocked down! Ryan talks us through his life growing up and chasing the NFL dream, coming from a small school with big heart and work eth…

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02 - Answering the Call No Matter the Cost -Jay Collins: Green Beret + FL Senator 1:00:29

8M ago1:00:29

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Jay Collins is a decorated warrior who first served his country as a Green Beret in combat, then his community as a non-profit leader, and now serves the people of his state as a Florida State Senator! Jay recounts the fateful day in Afghanistan where he was shot and tells the inspiring journey of ups and downs across his Special Forces career - in…

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01 - What is Prep For Impact? - Meet the Host – Matt Parrish: Green Beret 44:20

8M ago44:20

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Join our host and retired Green Beret, Matt Parrish, as he intros Prep For Impact, a new podcast from the Green Beret Foundation! Matt touches on his 20 years in Special Forces and his experience co-creating and hosting SOCOM's first official podcast, SOFcast. He explains what the name Prep For Impact means, why he wanted to partner with the Green …

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TEASER - 146: Miami Vice: Attack of the Clones (with Jessica Ritchey) 3:54

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Access this entire 90 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/146-miami-vice-88370980⁠ Success breeds imitators, and on this seventh instalment of the p…

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Coming Soon! Prep For Impact - a new Green Beret podcast!! 1:22

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Check out some highlights from Prep For Impact - a new podcast releasing Aug 30th on YouTube and all podcasting platforms! Hear from high-performing and high-character guests about how they've made an impact and come back from taking an impact. Subscribe today and don't miss a minute of the action!! Connect with us!! Prep For Impact socials - https…

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145: Papa Loach (with James Slaymaker) 1:29:34

8M ago1:29:34

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The writer James Slaymaker, author of Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann, returns to the pod from Southampton for a discussion of selected works from the veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach, who at age 87 is about to release what is said to be his final feature, The Old Oak. Ken Loach’s 1969 feature Kes is a staple of the British school curri…

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144: Big Love for Pee-wee (with Karen Geier) 1:25:29

8M ago1:25:29

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The writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns to the pod to say farewell to Paul Reubens and his iconic Pee-wee Herman character. Reubens created the Pee-wee character in the mid 1970s as part of the LA improv troupe The Groundlings, in a cohort that included Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks. A failed attempt to join the cast of SNL in 1980 doubl…

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TEASER - 143: Miami Vice: Ripped from the Headlines (with Matthew Kinkaid) 4:24

9M ago4:24

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Access this entire 90 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/143-miami-vice-87557729 Friend of the show and Miami Vice head Matthew Kinkaid joins us fr…

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142: Breathless ’83 (with Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory) 1:48:17

9M ago1:48:17

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Aaron and Carlee from the Hit Factory podcast return from San Francisco for a deep dive into the underrated 1983 American remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark film Breathless, directed by Jim McBride. Assailed at the time of release for being a shallow exercise in style, to watch Breathless 40 years later is to see a work arguably as influential on…

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BLAH 180 | Best of ASOAIF - The Hound’s Origin Speech, with Sean T. Collins

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Origin stories are a Hollywood trope. Oftentimes, they’re rote and uninteresting, but if done right, they can recontextualize and enrich characters you never thought would rise above mid-level anti-hero-badassery. Case in point: the Hound, who gives the speech of a lifetime to Sansa in “A Game of Thrones”. Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes p…

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141: Miami Vice: Captain Real Estate (with Jeb Lund) 1:55:41

9M ago1:55:41

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On the fifth episode of this podcast’s summer sidebar series on NBC’s crime drama Miami Vice, the writer and podcaster Jeb Lund joins me from Tampa, Florida for a look at the two-season story arc that pitted Bob Balaban against G. Gordon Liddy. Balaban’s Ira Stone, an Army reporter who served with Sonny Crockett in Vietnam, shows up in Miami 10 yea…

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TEASER - 140: Miami Vice: The Glamorous Life (with Sean Armstrong) 4:20

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Access this entire 87 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/140-miami-vice-86864671 The Miami Vice sidebar series continues with returning guest Sean …

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TEASER - 139: Oppenheimer (with Corey Atad) 5:12

9M ago5:12

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Access this entire 115 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/139-oppenheimer-86689014 The film writer Corey Atad returns to the show for a deep dive into Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenhei…

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