Anti-wave

This week, Robert dives into a story that starts with harmless curiosity and somehow ends in lawsuits, blackmail, and grown men being paid to giggle, while Ira questions every email he’s ever opened. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss TICKLED and share their top 5 fetish movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist and you’re curious about the underground ‘sport’ of tickling with young athletic men and as you do research on the sport, some shady figures threaten you and you discover there’s more here than meets the eye and we’re talking bullying, threats of ruined reputations, fake identities, credit card fraud and then you uncover even more starting stuff with much more going on than just giggles, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert descends into cinematic anxiety and biblical chaos, while Ira spends the entire time asking the perfectly reasonable question: “Why doesn’t anyone just leave?” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MOTHER! and share their favorite top 5 ‘worth a 2nd watch’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a woman in a house with your husband who is a poet with writer’s block and is distant, and then a visitor and his wife show up and you become more and more frustrated with these uninvited guests, and when the couple accidentally shatters a crystal object you tell them to leave and then things go bonkers and chaotic while other people arrive and invade your home, and you’re pregnant and your brooding old man is finally happy and hordes of people show up at your home and you give birth to a baby boy and you don’t want your hubby to hold the kid and he reaches into your chest and pulls out your heart and we’re talking some heavy religious symbolism here, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert breaks down the art of keeping a film alive through sheer willpower, while Ira admits producing sounds suspiciously like being blamed for everything. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of producer on micro budget films, focusing on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a film producer, which involves feeding the cast and crew and running around town to get camera gear and batteries and lots of props, including combination locks, a porn collection, tennis shoes, and fake scars and guns, and keeping security at a distance and being a sounding board for the director and scouting the subways and driving to the desert to record gunshots and shattering my car window and stomping barefoot in a pool of blood under a freeway tunnel for a scene that wasn’t used, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert breaks down the biggest wins, snubs, and scandals of the 2025 Oscars, while Ira wonders why his homemade sex tape still isn’t getting any awards buzz. Join Robert and Ira with special guest Eric Swelstad as they discuss THE OSCARS and share their top 5 Oscar highlights of this year’s show. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you want to know everything about the Oscars, and we mean everything from winners, losers, snubs, song performances, relevance and ratings, and Adrien Brody’s long ass rambling and meandering acceptance speech which felt longer than the movie he won it for, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert spirals into a twisted ballet of insanity, while Ira's idea of a dramatic transformation is swapping his pajamas for sweatpants. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss BLACK SWAN and share their top 5 battlin’ bitches. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a thin sexy hottie in a tutu who is obsessed with ballet, and you live with your kind but over protective mother and you audition for both leading roles in Sean Lake, the sweet White Swan and the edgy Black Swan but your personality is more suited for the White Swan, and then a new dancer arrives on the scene who is hot and edgy and would make a better Black Swan and you start going bonkers, take some Ecstasy, and have hot lesbian sex with your dark and edgy competitor or maybe you don’t, and your jealousy gets greater and so do your disturbing hallucinations as you get in touch with your dark side and you descend into madness blurring the line between reality and fantasy and you grow feathers and wings and die, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert dives into the haunting highs and crushing lows of Requiem for a Dream, while Ira dreams of a world where snacks are unlimited. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and share their top 5 shattered lives. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a mother in Brooklyn and you’re on the heavy side, not like a beached whale but kind of close, and you get an offer to appear on TV but your red dress is too tight and you want to go on a crash diet to lose weight and you see a weight loss doctor and he prescribes pills, four a day in pretty colors, and you lose weight and you become manic and your drug dealing son is concerned, and his drug pushing partner gets arrested and your boy bails him out, and you be trippin’ but the weight loss doctor is pleased with your weight loss, and your son’s drug dealing world starts to crumble so he whores out his girlfriend for money and he gets deeper in the weeds with fucked up drug deals and you continue to pop pills and you really be trippin’ and your refrigerator comes to life as you hallucinate some weird fucked up twisted shit that would make Hunter Thompson proud, and shit gets real when your son is shooting heroin and his girlfriend fucks another dude for money, and your son goes to the hospital because of his totally fucked up arm and you’re in a psych ward getting zapped with shock treatment, and your son’s girlfriend is whored out again at a gang bang and your son has his arm chopped off and you’re now barely recognizable and you trip out fantasizing you’re on TV with your son, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert dives into the dark arts of cinematography, Ira claims he invented the Dutch angle by accident, and Trevor Davis patiently explains how he saved Prowler from looking like security-cam footage. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of the Director of Photography with our special guest TREVOR DAVIS, who was the DP extraordinaire on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered who is responsible for the overall “look” of a film and what a Director of Photography does to achieve that - in particular on our film, which was beautifully shot entirely at night - then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert unravels spirals of obsession like a man who’s seen too much, while Ira tries to remember how to add without using his phone. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Pi and share their top 5 micro-budget movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a compulsive Jew and you’re obsessed with patterns and mathematics and nature and a cute Latina neighbor tries to be your friend and you befriend an Hasidic Jew who talks about the Talmud and you see how everything in the world even the stock market is in the form of a Golden Ratio, Golden Triangle, Golden Rectangle and ultimately a Golden Spiral, and another Jew tries to talk you out of what you’re doing, and a mysterious woman gives you a chip for your computer, but you trip out on drugs and try to pull a chip out of your head and you collapse and your cute Latina neighbor comes to your aid and you hit your head and you watch a bug and you go back to the old Jew and confront him, and that mysterious woman and her henchmen chase you and want what’s in your head, and the Hasidic Jew saves you and wants what’s in your head, and a group of orthodox rabbis want the number in your head, and the old Jew has a stroke and you smash your computer and burn a bunch of numbers and take a drill to your head, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert gets lost in a spiral of violence and moral decay, while Ira just wants to know if “stealing hearts” counts as a felony. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss CAUGHT STEALING and share their top 5 ‘no way out’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to have a hot girlfriend and you have hot sex with her and you’re an alcoholic, but when you agree to take care of your neighbor’s cat, a couple of bald thugs beat the shit out of you, and the detective has an attitude and your girlfriend is killed and someone put a key inside fake dog shit and these two Sephardic Jews come after you and they kill the detective and you and the cat end up on a tropical island, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert turns chaos into cinema while Ira reminds everyone that sometimes failure is just another word for “first draft.” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the element of adapting and how it applies to low-budget filmmaking, including their own film PROWLER.  Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered about the importance of adapting in filmmaking and know when to be tenacious and not let go, or know how to make something work when you need to think on your feet, or know when to really adapt by tossing out your original idea and modify what you had in mind and instead go with your Plan B, then maybe - just maybe - this process will make your film even better by being more organic and raw and honest, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert sharpens his pencil and stabs at story structure while Ira insists spellcheck counts as screenwriting. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the art of screenwriting and how it applies to their own film, PROWLER.  Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to write, toss out, revise, rewrite, revamp, rework and toss out and start again, then this episode is for you.

This week, Robert praises the questionable glue choices that held Prowler’s world together, while Ira admits the only art department he’s ever run involved finger paints. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the art department and production design process of their own film, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to sweat over every nail, prop, and paint color and not get ‘screwed’ in the process, then this episode is for you.

This week, Robert pulls back the curtain on the blood, sweat, and screaming that went into finishing PROWLER, while Ira mostly just complains about how loud everything is. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the post-production audio process of their own film and share war stories from the sound trenches. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a… wait, fuck that… instead for this episode, the boys have retooled Anti-wave and decided to scrap their traditional format and change it up and talk about what they know best, their upcoming movie, as they focus primarily on sound. So if you want to know about the workings of foley and ADR and how it applies to PROWLER, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert dives into a flood of biblical fever dreams, stone angels, and Russell Crowe’s thousand-yard stare, while Ira tries to figure out why no one brought a second unicorn. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss NOAH and share their top 5 boat movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a dude in some barren land with a hot wife and family and with these ugly ass monsters, and God asks you to build an ark and water spurts out of the ground and travels all over the land and trees and springing up all over the place which gives you the wood to start building an ark but it turns out the ugly ass monsters aren’t evil, they’re just pissed and they help with the construction of the ark and first the birds show up and then the snakes, and then a band of no-goodniks get in the way and there’s a big brouhaha and the ugly ass monsters defend you, but then the other tribe gets super aggressive and goes for the ark with a vengeance and it’s a huge battle royale, and the rains come and it’s a big ass storm, but then your son is pissed at you because you allowed his girlfriend to die, so your son helps get the bad dude on your ark and then your son gets his girlfriend pregnant and now you’re majorly pissed want to kill the baby and then your son is asked to kill you and he sets you up and the girl gives birth to twins and a humongous fight ensues and you lie and tell your wife it’s a boy and then the storm stops and all is right with the world, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert contemplates eternal life, cosmic trees, and existential despair, while Ira just wonders if there’s a senior discount for reincarnation. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss THE FOUNTAIN and share their top 5 everlasting love movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a dude who’s a scientist and you’re in love with a hottie but she has cancer and is dying, but there’s hope when the monkey you’re experimenting on is no longer sick, and then you appear as a conquistador and your same girlfriend is now some kind of queen asking you to go to battle in Spain, and then you’re a weird ass mystic, and then you pop back to now, and then become the conquistador again, and then back to that ethereal dude and you climb a tree and white shit pours into your wound and a beautiful bouquet of colorful flowers sprouts out of your wound and out of your mouth and you bury your dead wife in the snow, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert examines the delusions, disguises, and disastrously dumb decisions of wannabe criminals, while Ira swears the only felony he’s committed is emotional shoplifting. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss AMERICAN ANIMALS and share their top 5 college movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a college student and you team up with a group of slightly inept buds and hatch a half-brained plan to steal a rare and valuable first edition book from the college library, and you go to Amsterdam to meet with a couple of black market thugs who will pay you big bucks for the book and after a couple of missteps, you finally attempt the book heist and you hog tie and bound and gag the sweet librarian but at least you tell her you’re sorry, but you make some dumb ass mistakes like giving out your cell number and email address and the authorities track you down and you and your buds are arrested, then this podcast is for you!

This week, Robert body-slams some marvelous movie metaphors while Ira continues to wrestle with technology. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss THE WRESTLER and share their top 5 last hurrah movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a washed up down on your luck has-been wrestler who’s locked out of your trailer home for not paying rent and you wrestle at rinky-dink local matches and put on fake shows and your girlfriend is a stripper and you do drugs and get beaten to a bloody pulp and have a heart attack and the doctor tells you to quit wrestling and the stripper tells you to contact your daughter but the kid tells you to fuck off, and your stripper girlfriend takes you shopping to buy your daughter a gift, and you have a beer with your stripper girlfriend, but she sees you as only a customer, and you work at a deli and bond with your daughter and you and your kid dance at an abandoned ballroom, but then the stripper says she’s not into you, so you kind of rebound with the drugs and shit, and you forget your dinner date with your daughter and she’s royally pissed, and at the deli you cut your hand on a meat slicer, and you go back to wrestling and the stripper apologizes for being a bitch and she walks away from her stripper job to see you at the big match, but then she splits yep she’s outta there and you climb the rope and hurl your beaten body onto your opponent, then this podcast is for you!

Anora? I hardly knew her! Join Robert and Ira as they discuss ANORA and share their top 5 sex worker movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a hot dancer at a strip club who does lap dances and you meet a young Russian kid who pays to be with you and you see him outside the club and spend lots of time with him in his ritzy mansion, and when he says he’ll have to go back to Russia, he proposes to you and you accept and you get married, but his family finds out the boy married a whore and it will be an embarrassment and disgrace so Russian goons burst into your mansion and tell you the marriage must be annulled and you refuse and when you fight back, they tie you up and your husband has vanished so you and the Russian goons go searching for him, and he’s totally wasted and his mother flies into town, but because you got married in Vegas, it cannot be annulled in New York, so you all fly to Vegas to get it in annulled, and then you start to fuck a Russian henchmen in the car, but when he tries to kiss your face, you sob in his arms, then this podcast is for you!

This week, two knuckleheads start talking about knuckleballs! Join Robert and Ira as they discuss THE SANDLOT and share their top 5 narrated movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a kid who moved to a new town and your stepdad tries to teach you how to play catch and your mom is cool and tells you to go out and breathe clean air and scrape your knee and you join a ragtag group of kids playing baseball and when the ball goes over the fence, they tell you about this huge monstrous dog that’s next door, and you bond like crazy with your teammates and do stuff together like go to a public pool with a hot lifeguard and go to a carnival where you chew tobacco and go on a ride and barf, but one of your teammates hits the ball so hard, it’s blown apart, so you take your stepdad’s prized baseball that’s autographed by Babe Ruth who you never heard of and play baseball with that ball, but the ball goes over the fence with the huge monstrous dog, and you and your teammates try to get it back and one of your teammates is visited by the spirit of Babe Ruth who tells him to go get the damn ball, and he does, but the huge monstrous dog chases your buddy all over town and you go to the owner of the huge monstrous dog, who is actually a kind blind man who collects baseball stuff, and he gives you guys another ball signed by Babe Ruth so your stepdad won’t be too pissed, then this podcast is for you!

Ever wonder what happens when two guys with way too many opinions (and questionable emotional stability) tackle one of the most heartbreaking true crime documentaries ever made? Join Robert and Ira as they discuss DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER and share their top 5 Sundance films. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a young doctor who is found dead in a park and it’s discovered you were shot by your older psycho bitch ex-girlfriend who fled to Canada where she was able to walk free on bail, and the psycho bitch is pregnant with your child and your parents are royally pissed and they campaign to gain custody of your child and convict the psycho bitch who killed you, but the psycho bitch is still a free woman and your parents try to work with her to help raise your kid, but the psycho bitch kills your child and kills herself, then this podcast is for you!