Episodes
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Episode two from La Cita de los Angeles features novelist, story writer, professor, and Substacker Christine Sneed, who met the fellas at a coffee joint slash wine bar for some Shirley Jackson action. Subject: "The Lottery," a story about small town values. Other topics include LA, Chicago, Christine's many books, and her forthcoming writer's retreat in Bordeaux. An excellent time was had by all, and will be had even more by you, dear listener.
https://www.christinesneed.com/
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Da boys went down to Lalaland for the big annual creative writing conference, and who should they meet? Well, a bunch of folks, including Kimberly the poet, who really didn't know what she was in for when she agreed to join the podcast. At her request, they talked old, old movies, specifically, Gilda and Gaslight. The discussion, in DTLA's amazing CDMX bar, was scintillating, profound, hilarious, and touching. Now buy Kimberly's latest book!
https://www.kimberlyannpriest.com/books
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Steve just returned from a work trip in India, and Kelly has been going to Venice every summer for years, so why not discuss a kind of groundbreaking and fun autofictional novel about the extremes of excess and deprivation? If you haven't read Geoff Dyer's book in question, get on it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/29/jeff-venice-geoff-dyer-review
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Iyer-t.html
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Steve doesn't like the story about the alcoholic poet who is brought against his will up to see the volcano. The volcano, and the poet, and the other characters, and the situation, are kind of metaphors for this or that, and Steve doesn't like metaphors. Steve does like the other story though, the non-metaphorical thriller about a bunch of doped out amateur drug smugglers who are just not really pulling it off on their sailboat in the Caribbean Sea. Kelly likes all the stories in Robert Stone's "book of a lifetime," Bear and His Daughter, but then again, Kelly's a professor, and as such, unreliable and unrelatable. Whether you're a Stone superfan or never heard of the guy, there's plenty here for you in this contentious episode.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/1997/11/telling-america-its-nightmares/
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/20/reviews/970420.20wood2t.html
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/bear-and-his-daughter-by-robert-stone-book-of-a-lifetime-a6867281.html
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A little kid has a grownup day, and a big kid enjoys a few minutes of adulthood before... Well, no spoilers in this description. Join the brohams as they discuss the king broham himself.
Check out this entertaining and informative video two nice guys sent Dude One and Dude Two while recording at headquarters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlxEKOscu0M
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Steve wanted to talk about one of the most maligned episodes in sitcom history, and who was Kelly to disagree? Tune in for a rollicking discussion that challenges the consensus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finale_(Seinfeld)
https://screenrant.com/seinfeld-finale-ending-explained-hated-good-reason/
https://www.netflix.com/title/70153373
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Back in the day, Lynch helped usher Daniels from metal meathead to art fart--not that you can't be both. Jones didn't know much about Lynch before recording but was game to learn more. To put it another way, Daniels started the night with a can of PBR, and Jones had a nice cold Heineken. Now it's dark.
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The bros invite another bro, filmmaker Harry Walker, to talk about 1986's The Hitcher. But first, Kelly provides a report from academia, the inside scoop about the university chancellor who got fired for making and posting porn movies of him and his wife. A rollicking convo ensues.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3512053/
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-hitcher-1986/
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The script is flipped from last time. Kelly doesn't like to mix magic with his sci-fi; Steve just thinks it's an enjoyable movie. Without any love in his heart, Kelly turns to smut and DEI jokes. It ain't pretty.
From Slate: Whose idea was it to turn Minority Report into a mushy declaration of humanism? It ends up as less of a warning about an Orwellian police state than a protest that Pre-Cogs are people, too. It's Dick-less.Ebert's 4/4 star review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/minority-report-2002
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Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Who cares? The fresh question is about Terry Gilliam's gonzo dystopia, Brazil!, set in a bleak industrial wasteland and taking place over the Christmas holiday. You've got jackbooted goons singing carols, mall shopping with the Consumers for Christ, and Santa hats galore in this delicious piece of grotesque weirdness.
Also, Steve uses the episode to introduce the "Stevometer," which gives this classic work a 4/10, while challenging Professor Daniels to change his mind. Will the good doctor succeed? Does he even want to succeed? Find out in this spine tingler and ringadingler.
https://www.thefilmagazine.com/brazil-1985-a-cut-above-the-rest/
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Steve traipsed around Morocco last summer, breaking from his 5-Star comfort zone into (gasp) a room without air conditioning, among other horrors. This hardship prompted a dive into the warped fiction of the great Paul Bowles--buddy of William S. Burroughs, acclaimed author and composer, famous ex-pat, lover of men back when that kind of thing could get you in trouble, and generally an interesting cat. The stories under consideration: "A Distant Episode" and "The Delicate Prey." Good thing the MUW boys never get tongue-tied, and let's hope it stays that way.
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The Paris Review is one of the most iconic literary magazines in America. They've also got a podcast. It's good (the podcast, but also the magazine), self-consciously artsy, with all kinds of content from the mag's illustrious history. On this episode, Dude One and Dude Two discuss a couple of edgy PR stories: "A Dark and Winding Road" by Ottessa Moshfegh, and Sam Lipsyte's "The Worm in Philly" (read by Marc Maron).
https://www.theparisreview.org/podcast/6040/missed-connections
https://www.theparisreview.org/podcast/6044/the-listening-forest
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Daniels's recent trip to Ireland inspires this discussion of two great Irish short stories, one modernist, the other contemporary, linked by sexual perverts. You're going to want to keep your tab open for this one.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2814-h/2814-h.htm
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/claire-keegan/antarctica-2/
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Maybe you saw that YouTube music and cartoon vid about George Washington? If not, you're in for a treat. If so, I bet you haven't seen the other short clips on discussion. So here's your assignment: Click on the links below and enjoy. Play our episode and enjoy. Give us and Brad five star reviews. Follow these steps and you'll receive an A+ from the Professor Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCiBPjckTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp3wTXYoCCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUhE5KsJ5hk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qljs6phMy8o&rco=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOIaETfKMmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JaOAynaeE&rco=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6OOuPI5c0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bar3GOzDNzg
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Steve wants to talk America's pastime--little league, minors, and The Show; Kelly, who through no fault of his own ended up an Los Angeles of Anaheim California Angels fan, is not really following the action this year. Instead, he tries to introduce Steve to some serious LITERATURE, which Steve naturally resists. If this sounds fun, then you've got good instincts. Pull up a stool and ask the bartender to turn on the game.
"A Game of Catch," Richard Wilbur: https://mrpastor.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/3/1/16317682/a_game_of_catch.pdf
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