The Melting Pot

Last episode ever probably. Thanks to everyone who was involved & followed the journey. We will be back in another form. 

This podcast is the source of my alcoholism. 

Serious it didn't make enough money. Watch it, tell your friends. Watch it again with them. 

This is Tom's first appearance, but it's the one after The Batman one because it was funny. This one's funny too, but not as funny. This is before Tom sucked a dick.

Sorry I haven't uploaded in a month, please blame a podcasting hosting service called Acast. Seriously fuck this company & all the loser American technocrats. Anyway Sam, Deng, Tom & I talk about The Batman. 

B0des is back to discuss the pandemic, culture & spit ball ideas with Dan. You like podcast? You share podcast, I get happy feeling. 

Stephen Chavura is back discussing his experience with Australia's response to the pandemic & why movies from the 70's were better, because they are. 

Welcome to Season 3 bitches! Sam & Dan discuss Superbad & Project X. Sorry for not uploading in a while. It's been a crazy month, you know what though. Maybe if you shared the podcast with your friends I'd be more motivated to upload. I don't know. 

Dan speaks to Rain Mage about embodiment practices, thearupeutic massage & The Matrix (1999)

Liam Jarvis is back to catch up, talk politics & his upcoming national tour!

Dan & Sam discuss Fight Club & The Beach

Yeah.

Dan & Sam discuss Squid Game & other films in the death game genre

Dan does his first solo rant episode. 

Dan & Sam discuss the dystopian state of NSW lockdown & the 1978 film "The Deer Hunter" 

Sam & Dan rant about the state of the world before discussing all the Mad Max films. 

Dan interviews a new guest to the pod, Dan Hess an American indie filmmaker. Dan & Dan talk about the current cultural landscape of filmmaking, the industry's problems & how they both tackle the challenges of a new filmmaking landscape. 

Dan & Sam discuss Sydney's current wave of Delta Rona, the still kind of new Bo Burnham special "Inside" & perform post mortem on their latest movie production experience. 

Dan & Sam are back discussing The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street & The Irishman as they slowly grow old together. 

Dan & Sam talk through the gangster filmography of Martin Scorcese over a bit too much soju. In part 1 we discuss Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino & Gangs of New York. Part 2 discusses The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street & The Irishman. 

Dan talks to his friend, actor Mert Altonsoy about the similarities between African American culture & inner Western Sydney culture, consciousness, relationship problems & much more.

Dan & Sam start a brand new segment where they review the filmographies of mostly Australian filmmakers, starting with the great Baz Luhrmann.

Dan has an old film school friend on Dean Di Giandomenico to talk shit about culture until one of us gets canceled. 

During the peak of the pandemic, through serendipity & Eric Weinstein Dan meets & connects with American artist B0des on zoom. Dan & B0des discuss all the things music from their processes to their respective local scenes & the effects of social media. They also discuss all things alchemy, & Carl Jung.

Dan gets Science Party leader Andrea Leong back in the studio with Bio-hacker Meow Meow to discuss the current pandemic & the facts & myths about vaccines as well as the future of genetic engineering. 

Dan catches up with his old friend Jimmy Whelan. Jimmy is a world-class jazz alto saxophone player & teacher. Dan & Jimmy talk about Jimmy's journey into music from his rebellious beginnings to his life-changing experiences in Thailand in the early 2010s, from helping grow the jazz scene in Chiang Mai to prison for playing jazz. 

In the longest episode yet, Dan is back with Samuel Reis to discuss the podcast Death is Just Around the Corner. Michael S. Judge's dissection of the CIA over the 20th Century. After a few bottles of wine, Dan goes through his experiences with psychedelics as the boys try to make sense of their lives after that high water mark broke into what is now the strange & dystopian world we now live in.

Dan & his business partner/friend Deng Deng get lit & talk about Star Trek, Attack on Titan, Steve Irwin, the Australian film industry & much much more. 

Dan interviews Cetvie Cetvie, a blogger & human rights activist focused on the billion-dollar global trade of sex trafficking.  Dan & Cetvie talk about the inner workings of the industry, the lack of law enforcement & sex trafficking as a symptom of the larger problem of class struggle in the world. If you're interested in learning more about Cetvie's work. please visit www.inthenameofhumanrights.com 

Dan talks to Sydney musician Chris Dutton about his recent involvement in Dan's film Risotto's Way. They also discuss how the pandemic has affected the music industry, the culture of the Sydney arts scene, & much more. 

Dan talks with Adam Soul, the founder of  "A World Without Money."A grassroots project focused on the survival of civilization collapse without the use of money. 

Dan & Joel Jammal discuss the political & cultural landscape in the post--U. S election environment. Joel Jammal is the co-host of The Arc podcast & a rising political commentator. 

Dan talks with Andrea Leong, the current leader of the Science Party about the state of politics, the party's values & goals, & of course all Dan's greatest hits.

Dan drives all the way to Port Macquarie to talk to Indigenous Law Student Alissa Paulson about Indigenous Incarceration, Systemic Racism, the influence of American culture & much more. 

Dan talks to local PHD & good friend Stephen Chavura about the problem with modern universities, cancel culture, gender relations & growing up in the west. 

Dan is joined by filmmaker Michal Imielski to discuss film, philosophy, & politics over a few home brews. 

Dan has his first female guest on to discuss sexism in the workplace, casual sex dynamics, hook up culture & much more under the influence of alcohol. 

Today's guest is Elsen Price, a double bass player & artists from Sydney. Dan & Elsen discuss music, artistic government funding, transcendence in art a much more.If you enjoy the show, please rate it on Itunes. 

Dan is back with Phillip to haphazardly discuss the BLM movement before diverging into our personal lives. 

Dan & old colleague, political satirist Liam Jarvis discuss politics, psychedelics, & Liam's personal experiences running for state government. 

Dan Is joined by his local shaman Rhys Paisley Heart to discuss drug culture, wokeness, spirituality, Donald Trump & much more. 

Dan & Sam discuss film making, morality & the cultural moment while they slowly descend into drunken calls for action.

Dan visits his old friend Dave Sherring to talk about his recent prison experience & history with organized crime. 

Shah rejoins Dan to discuss Capitalism, marketing, Bangladeshi politics & a whole lot more.  

Dan & his long time Korean friend Phillip discuss the growing racial animosity towards Asians in the wake of COVID - 19.

Dan, Sam & Shah share ghost stories around the campfire, & discuss the implications of the worst pandemic in our lifetime.