Based on Nothing

Here, on the shores of the sea, we finally come to the end of the podcast. I am joined by Layne Montgomery (@LayneMontgomery) from The Great American Novel who did the theme song, Luke Thornton from Secret Towns who did the artwork (@MrLukeThornton), Mal Smith (@Malive), and Natasha Dye (@NatashaDye). We also get calls from past guests Rae Paolette (@PAYOLETTER), Cole Johnston (@KeyboardCole), and Kevin Stairiker (StairikerKevin). These are all people who contributed to the show over the years with their time and conversation and I am very grateful for them. I am also very grateful for everyone that listened to the show over the years. I delayed ending the show for a long time, but slamming the door shut on it feels good. You can find me writing about movies and television @ Moviejawn.com, and on Instagram, Twitter and Letterboxd @Ailite. One day I will return to podcasting, maybe. For now this is the end and the ship has returned to port. See ya around.

Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) joins me to discuss a movie we have both been highly anticipating for a long time: Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections. I am very happy to say that we both love the movie and all of the weird tricks it has up its sleeve. It is first and foremost an epic romance movie, and it is very passionate and earnest. We are so happy that it exists. Episode 200 is finally coming in January, and the podcast may continue to exist into 2022. We'll see you next year. Spoilers for Resurrections and one large spoiler for Spider-Man: No Way Home

Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) joins me to look back on the long, sad history of this podcast and it's best episodes and guests who have helped keep it going over the yeara.

For the 2nd Non-Annual 10/4 Good Buddy Celebration we hear from truckers out there sailing across the seas of lands far and wide about their adventures and journeys. Featuring @DanScully, @Silberwhatever, @Filmadelphia, and @Malive. 

In the final (for now) episode of Understanding In A Podcast, cohost Andy joins me to talk about Thursday's (for now) final and excellent album No Devolucion. 

For episode #4 of Understanding In A Podcast Andy Freedman and I are joined by my old friend Blake Higdon (@october_blood) to discuss Thursday's 4th album A City By The Light Divided. This show as Blake's idea - it was his suggestion that we do a Thursday podcast and I am very grateful to him for reminding me how much I love this band's music. This album is a big growth of the band's sound and we mostly love it more than ever now that it is fifteen years old. We also talk about Rockstar Energy drinks, Thrice, Manchester Orchestra, Murder By Death, Circa Survive, and The Sopranos, Andy's trip to Atlantic City for Sopranos Con, and THE EMPTY MAN.

Andy returns for episode #3 of UNDERSTANDING IN A POD CAST. We discuss Thursday's debut album Waiting, recently remastered and rereleased. We also discuss the b-sides Ladies and Gentlemen, My Brother The Failure and Jet Black New Year, arguably the fan favorite Thursday track. In addition to all this we talk about hoagies, New Jersey, The Sopranos, depression in our technological communication wonderland/dystopia and more. Episode #4 next month. 

Andy joins me for episode two of Understanding In A Podcast to talk about Thursday's emo all timer classic album WAR ALL THE TIME. We talk about the album track by track and it's themes of post 9/11 America in decay, New Jersey, The Sopranos, Spike Lee's 25th Hour, Thursday's Signals 3 livestream show and more. 

Dom Nero (@Dominicknero) is a video editor and writer at Esquire and co-host of Eye Of The Duck, an excellent film podcast. He joins me to talk about Twin Peaks The Return, The Matrix Reloaded, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part 2, Ishtar, The Mandalorian, Star Wars at large, Knights of The Old Republic, Colin Trevorrow's Duel of The Fates script, The George Lucas Talk Show and much more. He also tells a great story about being a middle man for a journalist and Colin Trevorrow himself about a mysterious Jurassic Park tattoo.  Eye of The Duck can be found @Eyeoftheduckpod and anywhere podcasts are. 

For the first episode of Understanding In A Pod Cast, Andrew Freedman joins me to talk about Thursday, Full Collapse, the band's discography, where we were in our lives when we discovered this album and more. 

All timer guest Rae Paoletta (@PAYOLETTER) makes her long awaited return to the podcast to discuss the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. We both absolutely adore all three films and have been thinking about them a lot in recent months, for obvious reasons! We delve into our favorite performances, moments, themes and feelings of the trilogy, and which parts make us cry the most. . We also discuss the cult horror film The Empty Man, the Snyder cut, Troy, Master & Commander, space and more.  TEN EPISODES LEFT. BEGIN THE COUNTDOWN

MovieJawn's Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) returns to discuss movies, duh. We talk about CHAOS WALKING, The Snyder Cut, Troy, Elaine May, Tomb Raider and more. More episodes next month. Only 11 episodes to go!

Mal Smith and Natasha Dye return to discuss Taylor Swift's new album Evermore and Goodbye Earl

TJ Wells and spent Christmas Eve enjoying The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Watch Martin Campbell's 1998 masterpiece THE MASK OF ZORRO with TJ Wells and I

To celebrate 10/4 Good Buddy Day truckers from around the country call into the show to talk about life on the road. Featuring in order of appearance: Garrett Smith (@filmadelphia), Mal Smith (@Malive), Dan Scully (@DanScully), Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever), and Natasha Dye (@natashadye)

Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) returns and we discuss many things, but mostly the 1996 Robert Zemeckis film Contact.

Two of the best people who have ever been on the podcast, Mal Smith (@Malive) and Natasha Dye (@NatashaDye) return for an in in depth discussion of Taylor Swift's new album Folklore. 

My good friend Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) joins me to talk about the Lord of The Rings movies, Star Wars toys, First Cow and Kelly Reichardt, life during pandemic times, Halo games, giving up on ever seeing Tenet and much more. Ryan hosts The Shame Files Podcast, FYeahF1, and I Saw It In A Movie. He also runs Cinema76.com with his wife Jill.

TJ Wells and I discuss what we've been watching and try not to talk too much about the world falling apart. We also talk about how Bosch is kind of a perfect tv show

Star Wars day Clone Wars podcast crossover with Garrett (@FIlmadelphia) from @ILike2MovieMovie, Tori who hosts @ButterWithThat1, and Ryan & Jill who run @Cinema76 and host @shamefilespod. We all love Star Wars and have lots to say about Clone Wars More episodes coming this month. Stay safe 

Friend of the show TJ Wells (@PoorFrisco87) returns to the show to talk about our shared adventures as essential workers during an unprecedented global pandemic. We also talk about movies and tv but it's mostly about being essential workers during a pandemic.

Friend of the show Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) from Cinema76.com joins me on the podcast to discuss Star Wars, and a bunch of other stuff. We discuss The Clone Wars, The Rise of Skywalker, The Outsider, Westworld, The New Pope - which is one of the best things I have ever seen on tv, Jedi: Fallen Order, Ben Mendolsohn, the general terrifying state of things, Star Wars toys, the Blank Check Podcast March Madness tournament and more. Ryan has a new podcast with other former guest and friend of the show Ian Kimble called FYeahF1 about Formula racing and you find it at @f1_yeah on Twitter. Everybody hang in there. Thank you so much for listening.

TJ WELLS and I discuss The New/Young Pope, Indiana Jones 5, Better Call Saul, Birds of Prey, The Two Popes, Color Out of Space, The Outsider, James Bond, Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars episode 9 script, Tom Scharpling's Grown Ups 3 script, Frances Quinlan's solo album, my various movie pitches and more. 

Friend of the show Luke Thornton (@MrLukeThornton) joins me for the end of an era even though nothing ever ends

Fellow Star Wars nerd Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) from @Cinema76 joins me to discuss THE MANDALORIAN

Friend of the show and returning champion Ryan Silberstein (@Silberwhatever) joins me to discuss Star Wars, Rian Johnson, Knives Out, The Mandalorian, two wet balnkets getting fired off Star Wars and much more.

Friend of the show and all time guest TJ Wells is back to talk shit with me about movies and tv and stuff.

All star guest @Malive from A Few Beers In returns to the show. We talk about her complicated feelings regarding new era Taylor Swift and car accidents, The Lion King, Friends, the very good dog in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Jeremy Renner's music, Galaxy's Edge, Natalie Portman and more.

Friend of the show @PoorFrisco87 joins me to talk about Big Little Lies, Too Old To Die Young, Detective Pikachu, John Wick 3, The Beach Bum, Under The Silver Lake, Michael Mann movies, how weird and strange life is and much more.

Writer Alex Kane (@alexjkane) joins me on the show this week for a discussion about his book Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic. It's an in depth oral history of the classic and beloved game and you can get it right now! from Boss Fight Books. We also talk everything Star Wars, the Halo video games, the Coen Brothers, the Alien movies, our love of sci-fi and more.  If I don't do a big five year anniversary episode this month, I'll do it next month. Thank you for listening for the last five years.

My friend Ian Kimble (@iguessian) from Shoestring Gold Films is back. The movie Dead Giveaway that we made together two years ago is premiering at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival on May 10th. We talk about shooting the movie, our dumb lives, First Man, Elizabeth Holmes, Her Smell, scammers and more. All the while Ian plays Spider-Man on PS4. It's thrilling

Friend of the show @HeIsMaxBarth to talk about his band Jackson Moe, how fucked up American politics and 2020 are, living in Philadelphia, and how great the movie Walk Hard is. 

Carrie Wittmer (@carriesnotscary) returns to end the terrible, long, stupid year of 2018. She has a new book called New Erotica For Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust and Equal Pay that you can and should buy now. We talk about how our favorite movies and tv of 2018 including The Favourite, Widows, not watching Amazon's The Romanoffs, The Americans, Into The Spider-Verse and much more. We all made it through another terrible year and we are all stronger and weirder for it. Thank you so much for listening. Watch Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story with your family. See you in 2019.

Taking the month of October as easy as possible, apologies. Lots coming in November. TJ Wells joins me to talk about A Star Is Born, Venom, The Sisters Brothers, The Old Man & The Gun, Lodge 49, Sharon Van Etten, Kurt Vile, The Rider and more. Also I find out that Wyatt Russell is Kurt Russell's son, and I am very delighted by this revelation. 

I recorded this episode once with my friend Luke but then it got annihilated by my computer. Then I recorded it in two halves with my friend TJ, but the second half got annihilated by my computer again. I recorded a second half with Luke and it finally made it all the way. We talk about Forever, Searching, Support The Girls, The Good Place, American Vandal, BoJack Horseman, Maniac on Netflix which I think is a masterpiece, and much more. It's been a long month, thank you for your patience. 

This week I am joined by Carrie Wittmer, a comedian and television/entertainment reporter. We get to know each other, talk about the MCU and Paddington 2, the fantastic new Mitski album BE THE COWBOY and more. Then Carrie and I dissect Halt and Catch Fire, an underrated show that we both love dearly. If you have seen the show this episode is for you. If you haven't seen the show maybe this episode will make you want to start it! All four season are available on Netflix and it is one of the very best there is.  Carrie has a book called NEW EROTICA FOR FEMINISTS coming out on November 13th. She is on Twitter @Carriesnotscary.

Layne made the podcast a new theme song because he is a passionate rock and roll boy who likes podcasts. Check out his band LAYNE MONTGOMERY PAPER COMPANY and his Twitter @BuffaloSpringsteen