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In an expansive analysis of Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, we discuss the gaze, art, and a host of other topics in relation to this monumental romance film. Guest host Seth Alt helps Jesse and Tim connect with their feminine side (not really) in order to dig in to this genuine classic of modern art. 

Tim and Jesse talk about the protests, the media coverage, the political reponse, and various and sundry other related issues. If you're searching for the pod title reference, go search up Fox News coverage. Stand tall and shake the heavens, as Xenogears would say. 

Finally acclimated to the new pandemic flavored normal, the boys have reconstituted themselves with canned food and ramen to bring this podcast to the people. Topics include isolation, politics during the pandemic, and our terrible pop culture situation. 

Through the beauty of the Internet, the podcast comes to you with a discussion of the brilliant video game series Dark Souls. Special guest Seth Alt joins to bring his expertise to analysis of the series themes and to talk shit about Youtubers. Apologies for the reduction in sound quality!

In the midst of toilet paper hoarders and pugilists battling for canned beans, the full crew gives our takes on the Coronavirus and what it says about our culture and politics. Apocalypse ahoy!

Tim and Jesse, intrigued by the deteriorating structure of American politics, go on the warpath against MSNBC, the punditry class, and take on the final boss...Neoliberalism. 

In the midst of a pop culture drought, our plucky crew finally finds a space to talk about Lovecraft, and attempt to tie his work to a discussion of nature, both human and otherwise. Also, we got very angry at MSNBC at the the end. 

With the help of returning guest Tamar Salibian, Jesse and Tim court controversy by going in on white feminism. We also talk around the Iowa caucuses, socialism, and issues of identity. Politics, baby!

To round out a month of incredible work ethic on our part, we relax with an almost two hour long conversation centering Alan Moore's seminal comic about averting nuclear war and its TV followup about white supremacy. Very chill stuff!

Continuing the series that began with Satanism, the gentlemen assemble to discuss an unusual, possibly schizophrenic, religion devoted to aliens, Raelism. Details of the religion and our world's fascination with new age faith are discussed through the usual dark lens. Shouts to Rael for the intro music. 

On a day where Jesse's allergies made him sound like his head was filled with mucus, Tim breaks down Trump's escalating tensions with Iran, plus a breakdown of the Democratic primary as it stands now. This is mostly a filler episode before we assault you with content over the next month. 

After watching the documentary "Hail Satan", the boys plus guest Jon Peloso discuss the merits/critiques of Satanism in a rambling episode that goes all over the place. Warning: There are some EDGY jokes, exercise caution, if you feel you may be offended. 

As our podcast would, we did a best of 2019 episode including things that weren't even released in the garbage year that is 2019, talking about subjects ranging from books on aliens and human sacrifice, all the way to country western and rap music, to TV shows based on comic books and video games based on novels. Happy Holidays!

Jesse and special guest Seth Alt lead a discussion of bonkers new post-apocalyptic FedEx delivery video game Death Stranding, while Gabe and Tim ask some questions. We talk about collectivism, Lacan, sex, and of course, death in relation to the game. 

Generational warfare, just in time to stoke your feelings about a certain other generation! Eventually we drift to Joe Biden, and a discussion of civility in politics, and Obama's recent public appearances. 

Bong Joon-Ho's anti-capitalist film Parasite gets a quick review this week, and segues us nicely into the primary aim of this episode: a brief survey of Foucault's concept of Biopolitics! 

In an expansive and exhaustive discussion of one of our favorite films of the year, we run down religion, sexuality, labor and mythology in the movie masterpiece, Robert Eggers' the Lighthouse. So bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths, full foul in his fury and listen to this insane episode. 

The whole gang is back to deconstruct the sorry state of our discourse through several examples barely still relevant. Is the Joker film going to cause you to become a Men's Rights Activist? Does Ellen dab with war criminals often? Is Trump's twitter account outsider art? (Yes.) 

Earlier this month, led by the indigenous, the people of Ecuador have taken to the streets in protest against a brutal and anti-constitutional IMF austerity program headed by Lenin Moreno. In the face of media blackout and repression, Tim interviews Sam, who is on the ground in Ecuador, about the context and history of the IMF in Latin America and the recent state of exception, mass arrest and murder of protestors. This is essential if you care about self-determination and democracy, in Latin America or anywhere else for that matter. Ecuador needs our help.

Absent Gabe, Tim and Jesse discuss Tim's fantastic article on the gladiator fights in California prisons, as well as the rotten discourse in cinema. These topics have nothing to do with one another, but the content mill must churn on!