• What Do You Get When You Cross a Monty Python with a George Orwell Dystopia? Brazil!
    2024/12/24

    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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    1 時間 20 分
  • Death in Morocco: A Couple of Disturbing Stories by Paul Bowles
    2024/12/12

    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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    57 分
  • The Paris Review Under Water: A Sampling of Some Very Fine Literary Audio
    2024/11/28

    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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    1 時間 15 分
  • A Couple of Pervs, Basically: Joyce's "An Encounter" and "Antarctica" by Klaire Keegan
    2024/11/13

    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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    1 時間 16 分
  • Brave New World: A Very Pneumatic Episode on Huxley's Utopian Dystopia
    2024/10/30

    If you're going to talk about 1984, it's only fair to flip the coin to it's counterpart, from brutal oppression to death by pleasure. So hail a taxicopter and join the dudes for a scintillating discussion on happiness: what is it, exactly, and how much are we willing to sacrifice for it?

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    1 時間 10 分
  • Reflection on Season Two: Employee Meeting #1
    2024/10/16

    In keeping with the Pubcast's commitment to transparency, here's the full recording of their first official business meeting. Tune in to learn all the ways that Jones must do better in the future, and other big dreams for the 'cast.

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    1 時間 2 分
  • The Art of DIY Internet Animation: The Great Brad Neely
    2024/10/02

    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=qv6OOuPI5c0


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bar3GOzDNzg

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    1 時間 14 分
  • Sarah Kain Gutowski on The Grapes of Wrath, Springsteen, and Rage Against the Machine
    2024/09/18

    The cast's fave poet is back,. this time hauling a pocket full of lit to the gents' home turf. Ideas abound, trains shudder by, and the Big Muddy just keeps on flowing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptWE8DAVl5E

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VypaE6kKJ8

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    1 時間 12 分