Toasting the Classics

Dave McArthur discusses the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas

Dave McArthur and guest host Bill Hodges discuss the 2015 biography of Alexander von Humboldt The Invention of Nature, and they stay sober while doing it.

Bill Hodges and Dave McArthur discuss the 1998 A Walk in the Woods while drinking moonshine and taking slight digressions into their own wilderness experiences

In what was probably one of our tipsiest episodes, Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the blockbuster martial arts film Enter the Dragon.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink cheap chardonnay and discuss the 1979 film debut of Steven Martin.

A blast from the Toasting the Classics past and a time before things went awry in America. Also after, but also before. Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss Dr. Dre's rap smash The Chronic while drinking forties of King Cobra.

Dave McArthur discusses Oscar Wilde's only novel and most famous work, sadly without a drink in hand, because this is Sober Shorts.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Bill Hodges and Kevin Doyle to discuss the David Lynch 1984 debacle Dune while drinking various permutations of the the water of life.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the bard's bloody masterpiece. Look out for new episodes on The Alchemist, David Lynch's Dune, and our first Broadway show, Smash, coming soon.

Dave McArthur and Bill Hodges stay sober and short while discussing the 1940 Best Picture Winner Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1982 comedy album Live on the Sunset Strip while drinking Rum and Pepsi.

Dave McArthur stays sober and discusses his thoughts on the 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart. Buckle your seatbelts for a weird ride.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier drink whiskey and talk about the highly acclaimed 1956 western The Searchers, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest host Bill Hodges for a discussion of the the 1973 science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1943 wartime children's book Le Petit Prince while drinking imported beer. We didn't say where it was imported to or from!

Dave McArthur invites guest hosts Kevin Doyle and Bill Hodges to discuss the 1985 action blockbuster Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1981 Best Picture winner Ordinary People and the technical aspects of Robert Redford's direction thereof while drinking too many martinis and admitting our kids are in therapy.

Dave McArthur braves the podcasting ether alone to discuss the new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Soul of Nature and the work of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola opus Apocalypse Now while drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. 

Dave McArthur and guest hosts Bill Hodges and Kevin Doyle discuss the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet on the day of the director's passing.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the purported great American novel, The Great Gatsby while time traveling to jazz age DC with gin rickeys.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest host Kevin Doyle to soberly discuss the 2014 Paul Thomas Anderson film Inherent Vice starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, and Martin Short among others. It's film noir, it's like the Big Lebowski, and it's one of our generation's greatest directors.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur go back to where it all began and drink vodka while discussing The Gulag Archipelago, the epic tome that brought down the Soviet Union.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink cans of Guinness beer while discussing the merits of the somewhat eponymous 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols!

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drinks Elysian Space Dust IPA while discussing the 1978 blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Dave McArthur is joined by guest hosts Jay Schweig and Steve Kattula to discuss the eponymous 1978 album Van Halen while drinking whiskey.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink gin cocktails crafted to taste like Oceania Victory gin while discussing the 1949 novel 1984 by George Orwell.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Joe Iglesias and Chris Gragg to discuss the 2006 dystopian thriller Children of Men while drinking hot toddies.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink Tom Collins cocktails and discuss The Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink five-dollar milkshakes with bourbon and discuss the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

Dave McArthur and Bill Hodges discuss the 2008 novel The Three Body Problem while sipping baiju.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1949 war epic The Sands of Iwo Jima while drinking bourbon.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur get back into the live podcasting studio to record a discussion of Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test while drinking vodka and Kool-Aid.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the 1968 album At Folsom Prison while sipping beer in brown bottles. There might also be some discussion of Live at San Quentin due to a totally understandable and forgivable mishap. Dave McArthur assures you that he later listened to At Folsom Prison and it was a bona fide banger and classic that slaps for sure!

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Kevin Doyle, Bill Hodges, and Chris Gragg for a lively discussion of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier drink bourbon and discuss the 1968 critical darling western Once Upon a Time in the West.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier drink gin martini cocktails while discussing the epic modernist poem "The Wasteland".

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy while drinking Hennessey.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Kevin Doyle and Chris Gragg to drink vodka blush cocktails and discuss the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink Surfer on Acid cocktails while discussing the 1964 blockbuster documentary The Endless Summer.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Bill Hodges and Chris Gragg to discuss the 1984 blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop while drinking Axel Foley's favorite drink, scotch and soda.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Joe Iglesias and Chris Gragg to drink akvavit and discuss the 1958 film The Seventh Seal.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier conclude their discussion of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road while finishing their Rusty Nail cocktails.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1957 novel On the Road while drinking rusty nail cocktails.

Dave McArthur welcomes guests Chris Gragg and Bill Hodges to discuss the 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski while drinking White Russians.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1987 album The Joshua Tree while drinking Irish whiskey.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest hosts Bill Hodges and Chris Gragg to discuss the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas while drinking Anjou wine.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier drink vodka martinis and discuss the original James Bond Film, Dr. No.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss Ian Fleming's novel Dr. No while drinking gin and tonic cocktails.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur drink Cure cocktails (triple sec, vodka, and lime juice) while discussing the 1989 Cure album Disintegration.