Clout Theatre

Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, including new Netflix show "FUBAR" along with "True Lies," "Last Action Hero," "Pumping Iron" and, you know, all the favorites. I can never decide if it's worth listing everything for SEO purposes or if it just clogs the description up and makes people quit reading. Listen to: Cheeseburger in Babylon 8pl8s And follow DC on Letterboxd too.

The rest of it. All Quiet on the Western Front, Top Gun, Women Talking, Tar, The Whale, Elvis, Triangle of Sadness. Plus the shorts, animated movies, and foreign films.

Part one of our Academy Awards recap with one of our oldest e-pals. Covering: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Banshees of Inisherin, Avatar 2, Black Panther 2, Beauty and the Bloodshed, Navalny, Top Gun, The Fabelmans, and Aftersun, more or less in that order.

Rick talks about his failure in Mexico and Tanner goes in on "Lost in Translation" (2003). Subject include the cultural losses due to globalization, Bill Murray, loneliness, Sofia Coppola, and how, every once in a while, when I'm out of town, I really feel like I'm gonna do it.

We welcome back our good friend and filmmaker Casey Puccini to discuss another documentary about trying to get films made, Overnight (2003), the chronicling of Troy Duffy's infamous squandering of his sweetheart Boondock Saints deal due to his ego. We talk opportunities and regrets, the pleasure of watching others fail, Mark Wahlberg, and Tanner almost makes the case for Boondock Saints as a great work of art.

You didn't think we'd actually do it but we did it: we're back with another ep in just one week, talking about reactionary calls for more purity in cinema and the tendency online people have to revise history when it comes to depictions of sexuality onscreen. Also the green M&M, the death of Mr. Peanut, John Fetterman, getting turned on by the plant from Little Shop of Horrors, the political nature of the Hays Code, and "Brainwashed: Sex Camera Power" (2022).

Folks, this is what you'd call a real “movies” episode. Tanner talks about Kenneth Anger after seeing “Scorpio Rising" screened in a theatrical setting, juxtaposed with the Music Box's recent decision to cancel the screening of a different movie. We talk Soviet-era film censorship, creating art under material restrictions, how often scary movies made for dirt cheap end up raking in tons of money, and the stupid "Babylon" ending.

Trying to riff more stuff out, y'know, extemporaneously. I edited out the part where we're actually listening to the Liver King video by the way, because that's probably not super entertaining, but if there's any interest we'd be more than happy to stream that sorta thing in the future. Thanks for all your support this year, Clout Theatre in 2023 is gonna be INTERPLANETARY.

Our first solo episode, where Tanner recounts a story about a man he met in the psych ward who offered him money to help end his life. This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of diary-like personal stories centered around mental health, psychiatry, and treatment.

Our pal Isaac (@gluten_daddy) of Apocalypse Florida shares with us dispatches from the great state of Florida as we discuss "Burn Notice," one of the most important texts in the Clout Theatre syllabus, along with CIA activity in Miami, the state of television programming in the years following 9/11, and Ron DeSantis's alleged deep state connections.

THE PODCAST IS BACK. We talk with Paris and Beaumont from Western Promises about Netflix's controversial film "Cuties," Lori Lightfoot, Arby's, novelty restaurants, and more.

If you think about it, Metallica is a lot like society. We talk about Metallica, the recording of St. Anger, the listless nature of an America sitting around just waiting for 9/11, and Rick's favorite documentary of all time: "Some Kind of Monster" (2004).

Part 2. If you're a good lawyer please get in touch with our friend @fakejerryseinfeld. Discussion turns to DreamWorks, Woody Allen, and more.

We talk with the premiere Seinfeld meme account (@fakejerryseinfeld) about the psychotic comedian, rival Seinfeld meme pages, Bee Movie, and what it's like to be sued by Jerry Seinfeld himself. Part 1 of 2.

It's a Lin-Manuel Miranda spectacular this week, as we unpack Disney's new role as the cultural champion of liberal values in the face of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, and get into why we're all more or less fucked because of it. Also Rick talks about how he saw "Hamilton" in theaters more than once and actually really enjoyed it.

The rest of our conversation with @nick_vyssotsky. Also check out Mother Based, streaming every Sunday evening.

We speak with our pal @nick_vyssotsky about "Prisoners" (2013), Denis Villeneuve's abduction mystery, vis-à-vis David McGowan's "Programmed to Kill," the premiere para-political urtext and Rosetta Stone for online schizos. The title is a play on Operation Phoenix that I didn't think to say or riff out on the actual podcast. Also check out Nick's show Mother Based (streaming every Sunday evening on YouTube) if you want to see catgirls watch IS!S beheading videos or whatever they do on there.

We kick off our ongoing examination of snake oil salesman David Lynch and do a loose roundup of the show thus far.

Tanner tries to steer the conversation towards movies (namely more about James Toback and Alec Baldwin's "Seduced and Abandoned") but listen. The riffs will not be denied.

We pal around with filmmaker @caseypuccini and discuss his work, his concept of art, and why any of us even fucking bother. Also we talk about the documentary My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn but that feels too long for the title and we only kinda mention that towards the end. And we have a whole bonus hour of this conversation that will go out in a few days with even more of our lively spoofs and goofs.

Tanner explains his fascination with the Bam Margera-directed "Haggard" (2003) and recounts the time he was lightly groomed while smoking K2.

We look back on the evolution of Jackass as a brand after seeing the new movie and reflect on the time Rick and his boyhood friend played Space Dog.

We continue exploring Daily Wire waging culture war with the first movie they picked up for distribution, Run, Hide, Fight, a school shooter movie modeled off of Die Hard. Additionally, some background on HUAC to prime a discussion of the right's co-opting of McCarthyist victimization in order to frame themselves as the radical minority

We talk about the Daily Wire's new film featuring Vincent Gallo and also we sorted out the audio finally so it sounds good.

Tanner quit his job to become a full time podcaster. In this episode we talk about the kid he used to hang out with who would jerk off dogs, the reactionary politics of Forrest Gump, Rob Lowe's polaroid collection, Italo Calvino, and the time Mykelti Williamson said he put Gallo in a headlock.

In our inaugural episode, we discuss the landmark Vincent Gallo film Buffalo '66 and Tanner recounts the time a guy tried to kill himself in the psych ward