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Hesse and Will are joined by Eddie from the Extended Clip podcast to talk the tender and merciless work of German New Wave master RW Fassbinder with two searing films. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, a beautiful and unlikely romance between a Moroccan guest worker and an elderly German woman is threatened by the suffocating prejudice of German society, and In A Year With 13 Moons, a transgender woman takes stock of her life and attempts to reconnect with her past. In both films Fassbinder uses the genres of melodrama and tragedy as vessels for his unique mastery of style and deeply personal exegesis of love, guilt and pain.Find Extended Clip wherever you get podcasts, and subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/extended_clip Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Featured player Alex Nichols returns to look at the creeping criminalization of the “edgar” haircut in Tekkkxas, the jomney sun-ization of the U.S. Navy, the state of the American “young” fascist movement, and Joe Biden’s floundering celebrity outreach program.Keep an eye out on our Patreon for a new series of Vic Berger videos covering Trump’s time away from the White House in Mar-a-Lago, premiering exclusively at pateron.com/chapotraphouse starting June 18. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate Pride Month, we’ve got Hesse and Ben from Seeking Derangements on the show to look at a slew of recent headlines in queer news, some recent moments of straight excellence (like John Fetterman crashing his car into an old lady), and a long and truly depressing story on one Laura Loomer.Subscribe to Seeking Derangements: https://www.patreon.com/seekingderangements/about? Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old owner and founder “King” George Coulam attempts to retire, his underlings, the obsequious & loyal-to-a-fault Jeff and the ambitious & conniving Louie, are pitted against each other in their attempts to gain control of the park. It’s a darkly comedic real-life Shakespeare story, but it also touches on a lot of ideas about work, employment, ownership, power, performance, alienation, and an (unhealthy?) obsession with the past, all in the context of a very particular modern workplace.All three episodes of Ren Faire are available now to stream on Max (the place for HBO). Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ah little lad, I see you listening to my podcast, would you like to hear the story of The Night of the Hunter and The Friends of Eddie Coyle? The story of good and evil? Of a psychotic preacher stalking the Depression-era South, killing women and menacing children? Of a pathetic broken down ex-con in 1970s Boston, who turns to snitching on his bank-robbing, arms-dealing “friends” to get out of a minor prison sentence? Hot dog you’re in a for two winners starring a legendary actor with a distinct and laconic style named: M-I-T-C-H-U-M. Oh and what’s that little lamb? It looked like they were goners, but Hesse and Will are joined by brother John Semley, who you may remember from last season’s episode on Clint Eastwood. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, we looked at Trump’s felony convictions and the various weaknesses that brings his campaign. This week, we turn to Biden world. First, Hunter is in court on federal gun charges, leading us all to learn about his bizarre taste crack music. Then, we spend the majority of this ep reading through the absolutely addled interview Joe Biden gave to Time magazine last week. How cooked is he? Can we make sense of any of this? How could we get two candidates this bad leading their presidential tickets? We discuss all inside. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chief animation correspondent Ben Clarkson returns to the show to look at the latest offering from Daily Caller’s original comedy content department, Adam Carolla’s adult cartoon Mr. Birchum. The crew wades into a miasma of poor animation, sloppy writing, gags from the (first!) Obama administration, and just a complete failure to understand its own joke or any jokes, filtered through the laziest sheen of contemporary adult animation eastern European content mills can produce. Plus, some original sleuthing on Ben’s part on the provenance of this show and its production process.The first edition of Ben’s great Justice Warriors comic available here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/JUSTICE-WARRIORS/9781952090226AND, preorder Justice Warriors Vol. 2 now! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors-Vol-2/Matt-Bors/JUSTICE-WARRIORS/9781952090325 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Felix joins Will and Hesse to look at two films from director Mamoru Oshii, Angel’s Egg (1985) & Patlabor 2 (1993). Both films explore Oshii’s fascination with navigating simulated and detached realities, with Angel’s Egg offering a mysterious dystopia laden with religious and symbolism and allegories for birth, and Patlabor 2 addressing suppressed emotions around Japan’s political situation in the 90’s. The crew unpacks the flimmaker’s metaphorical storytelling with a fair bit of discussion of Japan’s unique social and political context post WWII. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have Alex on today to first and foremost look at newly released soda rankings. Then, we catch up on reactions to Trump’s conviction, examine the many Rubicons people are always crossing, and ask if Barron will be Augustus Batman or something. Then, two new banger campaign ads from new MAGA star Valentina Gomez. Finally, a long reading series about Erik Prince’s far-right podcast group chat, and the various good & normal opinions shared there from the many luminaries in his orbit. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The original bastards of law Tim (@GarlicCorgi) and Andy (@wyatt_privilege) of the ALAB Series podcast stop by to chat law and courts today and WHAT TIMING because the Donald Trump guilty verdict dropped about 10 minutes into recording this ep. So we discuss that case, the verdict and the potential legal ramifications for Trump and the election in general. Then, we look at what’s going on with these Supreme Court Justices’ batty wives, the corruption of the court itself, and the docket of cases set to come before it this summer. Finally, we look at the ICC/ICJ and discuss shifting attitudes towards Israel in international law.Find all things ALAB Series here, and get the show wherever you get podcasts: https://www.alabseries.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Movie Mindset we return to the genius of Robert Altman. Where last we left our hero he was examining the American character through the lens of a whorehouse and the city of Nashville, TN. For this episode. Will and Hesse are joined by our friends Andrew Hudson (@intellegint) and Taylor (@Tupacdurex) to discuss two Altman films about Los Angeles in the 90s: The Player and Short Cuts. In the The Player, Altman skewers the movie business in a meta satire about a studio executive who gets away with murder, and then in Short Cuts, adapts the work of Raymond Carver to devastating effect with one of the best casts ever assembled. Check out @tupacdurex’s Movie Twitch Stream: twitch.tv/bobygamesdotcom Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chief Chapo foreign correspondent returns to take us around the wide world of conflict. We get an update on the war in Gaza including the bombing of Rafah, the failing floating Pier, and the Biden administration's attempts to broker some kind of deal between Israel, Palestine and Saudi Arabia without gaining any concessions or movement toward peace in the process. Plus, we discuss the death or Iranian president Raisi, the situation in Ukraine, and what the hell’s going on in French New Caledonia.For more Derek: The article on Germany Derek references at the end of the pod: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/whats-the-matter-with-germanySubscribe to Foreign Exchanges: www.foreignexchanges.newsAnd American Prestige: www.americanprestigepod.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We sit down with Mike Cheslik, the director of the new(ish) silent comedy action farce Hundreds of Beavers. We discuss his Wisconsin influences, ultra-DIY approach to filmmaking, making your film exactly as stupid as it needs to be, and the inherent humor of watching a guy in a mascot costume get wrecked on camera.There are still a few in-theater opportunities to catch Hundreds of Beavers: https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/tickets/And it’s also available for rental at home on Apple and Amazon. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re joined by DJ Byrnes of the independent news outlet The Rooster to take a look at the politics of OHIO, the most normal state in the union. With a trillion dollar nuclear energy scandal that led to multiple suicides, mayors entrapped by a Chinese spy honeypot operation, bribe-addicted polyamorous atheist city councilmen, charter school ponzi schemes, and FBI arrests, indictments and convictions of dozens of members of state and local government…extremely normal.Find DJ’s chronicles of Ohio depravity at the Rooster: https://www.rooster.info/And if you’re in New York, consider coming out to the Antics magazine fundraising party this Saturday, May 25th at Baby’s All Right: https://www.seetickets.us/event/antics-fundraising-party/601579 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we spotlight our first screenwriter with two films written by Dennis Potter: 1983’s Gorky Park (d. Michael Apted) and 1981’s Pennies from Heaven (d. Herbert Ross). Gorky Park is a police investigation thriller set in Soviet Russia concerning a gruesome murder involving a sable smuggling ring, and Pennies from Heaven features Steve Martin in one of his few dramatic roles as a depression era sheet music salesmen who escapes his dreary life through elaborate musical fantasies and a love affair with Bernadette Peters as an innocent schoolteacher. While wildly different in subject and tone, they illustrate Potter’s range and depth as a writer over his prolific career. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.