You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You

Ethan and Devin watched the twin disaster films of 1998: Michael Bay's Armageddon and Mimi Leder's Deep Impact. They discuss these different modes of boomer death dream, the end of the End of History, and why a mile-high tsunami can't melt steel beams. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. 

Ethan and Devin watched George Lucas's 90s indie classic, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). They discuss tariffs, merchandise, and other economic matters. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. 

This is the pod. We're joined by author Mike Miley to discuss his new book David Lynch's American Dreamscape, the dearly departed Lynch's incomparable Mulholland Dr. (2001), and uh, Sonic the Hedgehog. Find Mike's work at https://www.mikemiley.com/. He's on Bluesky at mikemiley and Instagram at mikecmiley. Check out David Lynch's American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema from Bloomsbury Press: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/david-lynchs-american-dreamscape-9798765102893/ Follow us on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter/Bluesky at Mathissippi and Devin on Twitter/Bluesky at stalecooper. In heaven, everything is fine. We love you David.  

Here's the audio from our 2nd annual Oscars twitch stream (broadcast at twitch.tv/youretallbut). Featuring Dan, Mike B, Catie, Oscar Isaac's right hand man Isaac, Devin's roommates, Devin's girlfriend, Matt "Spooky" Powers, and surprises galore! Donate to the 'No Other Land' Rebuilding Alliance Fundraiser at https://secure.givelively.org/donate/rebuilding-alliance/no-other-land-rebuilding-alliance-fundraiser

Hello listeners! We're about to kick start our new season, and we'll be doing so in opulent fashion with our 2nd annual live Oscars twitch stream. We'll be streaming for 2 hours from 8 PM to 10 PM Eastern time (5 PM to 7 PM Pacific) on Sunday, Mar 2. Join us live at https://twitch.tv/youretallbut or catch the audio-only version in your podcast feed soon after. We'll then be back with a lot of exciting episodes, including a regular season opener on Mulholland Dr., featuring special guest Mike Miley. Keep circling that drain!

Happy holidays from the folks at You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You! We celebrate the end of a terrible year and the conclusion of season 4 by finally venturing into one of the few corners of James Cameron's oeuvre we've left untrodden. That's right: we recorded a watchalong discussion of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), featuring repeated guest Catie and Devin's mysterious new girlfriend Slug. It's a Cameron Christmas! We're now on vacation, but WE'LL BE BACK for the 2nd annual live Oscars twitch stream on March 2nd to kick off season 5. Hasta la vista, baby. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Follow Slug at generalslug. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. 

From the heart of the Las Vegas Sphere, we discussed Gladiator II and Gladiator, too. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. 

It's the annual You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You Halloween Spooktacular! We're joined, as always, by Matt Powers, this time to watch M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (2002). We discuss paranoid faith, Joaquin Phoenix's on-base percentage, and M. Night's many jobs. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Find Matt Powers on Instagram at instinct_alley or at instinctalley.bandcamp.com. The closing music for this episode is "Song for a Dead President" by The Exclusive Document.

It's Megalopolis! Ethan and Devin watched Megalopolis (2024). They discuss Megalopolis, Megalopolis, and Megalopolis. The closing music for this episode is "Idol Hands" by Ethan Palmer and the Ethan Palmer Experience. Listen to it and the rest of the 11th anniversary edition of Ethan's album The Piano Is Louder This Time at https://ethanpalmer.bandcamp.com/album/the-piano-is-louder-this-time-11th-anniversary-edition Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. 

Ethan and Devin watched a pair of new releases, Alien: Romulus and Deadpool & Wolverine. They discuss the current state of the blockbuster and the films' contrasting approaches to cinematic nostalgia. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. 

Ethan and Devin are joined by Kenton Butcher and Catie Denham to discuss Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy (2020). Why were liberal elites so primed for JD Vance's anti-worker vision of Appalachia? Does this film secretly reveal that JD Vance is a sociopath? Did Pete Buttigieg rip off Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" in his memoir? Listen to find out! Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin are joined by Miles Taylor (@MTisempty) to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love (2002). They discuss the collision of PTA's directorial sensibilities with Adam Sandler's on-screen persona, the film's search for love in the informational haze of the new 21st century, and Mormonism as grindset religion. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. You can read Miles's writing at https://mileshtaylor.com.

Ethan and Devin watched John Badham's Short Circuit (1986). They discuss the nature of sentience, the perils of Artificial Intelligence, and the sexual politics of robotic throuples. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com

Ethan and Devin are joined by Steven Watts (@stevenwatts) to discuss FromSoftware's Elden Ring (2022) just in time for the new DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree. They discuss how the game mediates our neoliberal hellscape into a dark fantasy apocalypse, the need to embrace death, and why Margit the Fell Omen should have never been named department chair.Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin continue their unofficial post-apocalyptic explorations by diving into the Mad Max universe, with a focus on 1981's The Road Warrior and, with returning guest Catie Denham, 2024's newly released Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. They discuss Mad Max's massive aesthetic influence, Furiosa's prequel problems, and why the apocalypse runs on bullets and gasoline. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com

Ethan and Devin dive into the post-apocalyptic, multimedia Fallout universe. First, they're joined by returning guest Mike Opal and first-timer T Thumann to discuss the new Amazon series and test their wasteland wits against Ethan's completely unbiased trivia. Then, Ethan and Devin discuss Ethan's visit to the Hanford B Reactor and the evolving ideology of the Fallout video games.  But pod, pod never changes. Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

We're joined by Erik Baker to discuss John Woo's Face/Off (1997). We rank the performances and the performances within the performances, grapple with the power of Evil Howie Mandel, and ask what it means to swap faces at the end of history.Follow Erik on Twitter at erikmbaker and check out his work at The Drift. Find more of his writing at https://www.erikmbaker.com.Read Devin's piece on Face/Off, co-written with Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, at https://post45.org/2021/12/between-the-rock-and-a-hard-face-on-first-encounters-of-the-cage-kind.Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

In which we are contractually obligated to watch Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024). We unpack how Zack Snyder's new star war represents the infinite expandability of content-hours that Netflix craves, and how if you Snyder Cut a liberal a fascist bleeds.

We're joined by Samuel Catlin to discuss William Friedkin's Cruising (1980). We discuss the film's exploration of desire, identification, and homophobia; its complex conditions of production; and cruise ships. That's right, cruise ships.Follow Sam on Twitter at lint_ax and read his work in Parapraxis Magazine (https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/).Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Here's the unedited audio feed from our live twitch stream on Sunday, 3/10, at 7 PM Eastern. Fuck the Oscars, long live the pod, free Palestine.

We're back, baby! And we're talking Dune: Part Two (2024). Spoilers abound.On Sunday, March 10 at 7 PM EST, join us for the 2024 You're Oscars but We're Live Podcasting in Front of You Twitch Spectacular: https://www.twitch.tv/youretallbutFollow us on Twitter or Instagram at youretallpod. Follow Ethan on Twitter at Mathissippi and Devin on twitter at stalecooper. Email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin watch Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire (2023). They discuss Snyder's strange career, the movie's cookie cutter plot, and ask why everything is intentionally out of focus.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.This episode marks the end of season 3 and will be followed by a hopefully brief hiatus. See you in season 4!

Happy Life Day! Do you hate your family? We spent three hours talking about the Star Wars Holiday Special, Chewbacca as absentee father, and whether or not Max Rebo should be tried at the Hague.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

It's been 60 years since Lee Harvey Oswald proved that one man can make a difference, and Ethan and Devin celebrate by watching Oliver Stone's JFK (1991). They discuss Stone's outsider politics, the film's rampant homophobia, and whether literally any political issue could unite the forces of Hollywood like this film did.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

Ethan and Devin bring The Wooder Series to a close with James Cameron's The Abyss (1989). They discuss fictional divorce, real divorce, and why the only way to end the Cold War is to NOT get divorced.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

We watched Sphere.

Ethan and Devin continue The Wooder Series with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), joined by resident Wes and water experts Mary Alcaro and Aylin Malcolm. They discuss daddy issues, twee, the universal relatability of water, and experience one of the greatest moments in You're Tall game history.follow Mary @m2alc and follow Aylin @Malentendre.check out Mary's work at the Rosenbach's Sherlock Mondays: https://www.youtube.com/live/0_WfU3WRzr0?si=6ZRFwC7cOQiGQuHFhear Aylin on the appropriately titled "Water" episode of Northern Elements: https://m.soundcloud.com/aylin-mal/northern-elements-e2-waterfollow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

Ethan and Devin kick off a new miniseries, The Water (Wooder) Series, by watching James Cameron's Titanic (1997).  They discuss how James Cameron is everyone's dad, the emergence of Leo as a movie star, and why you shouldn't fuck with water.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

We wade into the discourse yet again to discussion Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023). Featuring guest editing by Devin.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

We conclude our WWII miniseries with a discussion of Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy at the Gates (2001). We talk about the Britishness of the Soviet Union, the superheroics of sniping, and why if communism really worked you'd have a girlfriend.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

We continue our WWII miniseries with a discussion of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) with guest Mike Opal. We talk about the film's meticulous construction, ambiguous moralism, and weirdly direct connection to video games. follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.follow Mike on twitter @falt_alt if you're interested in an account that doesn't tweet.

We interrupt our WWII miniseries to discuss the Succession finale and the series as a whole, while testing out ChatGPT's screenwriting chops.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

This episode, we head under the water for the second entry in our WWII miniseries. We're joined by friend of the show/non-listener Mike Beaupre to discuss Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981). We explore the film's ambivalent anti-war stance, get quizzed on movies where everybody dies, and consider, at length, the pineapple.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

Welcome to season 3 of You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You! We're celebrating V-E Day with a miniseries of episodes on World War II, the event through which the 20th century so often understood and misunderstood itself. We begin on the Eastern Front by discussing Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) with film critic, professor, musician, and friend of the show Matt Ellis. We talk about Matt's very reel history with Come and See, the IMDB top 100, and how the victory in Europe might not have been that victorious.follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.follow Matt on twitter @matthiasellis and listen to his excellent band A Hope for Home at https://ahopeforhome.bandcamp.com. The exit music for this episode is "Years of Silicon" from their 2022 album of the same name.

It's the final episode of season 2! We return from our hiatus by bringing a lost episode out from the You're Tall vault: our timely discussion of the Lumière Brothers' L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (1896).  Enjoy this vintage episode and we'll see you in May for season three!follow the pod on twitter @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Devin @stalecooper and Ethan @Mathissippi.

it's the crossover event of the century - we are joined by the fine folks at Better Read than Dead, the only good literature podcast, for a discussion of Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans (1992). it's a film that dares to ask the question, "What if the book didn't totally suck ass?"follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.follow Better Read than Dead at @betterreadpod, Tristan at @tjschweiger, Megan at @tuslersaurus, and Katie at @katiekrywo.

It's the NFL Playoffs, Baby! Devin and Ethan watch Tony Scott's The Last Boy Scout (1991). They discuss the film's boomer fantasia, the violent exploitation of football, and how to build a friendship out of one-liners.Go Birds.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.download Devin's EP 'motherfuckers line the streets, play "wonderwall"' at stalecooper.bandcamp.com

James Cameron is back and so are we. It's blue people, but turquoise. It's whales, but kinda weird.  It's the boomer desire to be the Last Man in the Universe, but in 3D. That's right, we watched Avatar: The Way of Water so you don't have to, and we discuss... whatever the hell that was.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Our old friend Matt Powers from Team Coco is back on the pod for our 2nd annual Halloween Spooktacular. We return to our old friend Donald Sutherland in the unofficial sequel to Klute, John Bruno's Virus. We discuss the film's incoherent combination of horror, sci-fi, and sea narrative, investigate some Russian IMDB interference, and have our first ever actor draft.Follow Matt on Twitter at @MattPowersESQ, and be sure to check out the new Team Coco podcast The Weird Place.This episode features music by Ryan Sylvester.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

It's spooky season, so Ethan and Devin are joined by Dan Malinowski to watch Lamberto Bava's Demons (1985) and Demons 2 (1986), movies about how the worst thing that can happen to you is a movie. We discuss the giallo genre, anti-yuppie nihilism, and the apparent torture of Berlin street cuisine.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. Follow Dan at @badopinionsman.This episode features music by Ryan Sylvester. Follow him on Instagram at raoulduke215.

Ethan and Devin watch Russell Mulcahy's Highlander (1986). They discuss ... well, they do the best they can.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Klute and Klute watch Alan J. Pakula's Klute (1971). They discuss Klute, Klute, and Klute.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin are joined by returning guest Catie and first-timer Ben—both native Ketuckians—for a special Labor Day episode on Barbara Kopple's Harlan County, USA (1976). They discuss the film's documentary aesthetic, its depictions of labor and gender issues, and why all scabs should burn in hell.Find Ben and Catie on the internet, if you can.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

In this season 2 debut, Ethan and Devin watch Dan Trachtenberg (friend of the pod)'s Prey (2022), the latest film in the Predator franchise. They discuss the film's back-to-basics approach, how it shifts (or doesn't) the franchise's relationship to colonialism, and, of course, the French.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin are joined by Will Nguyen, aka The Star Trek Communist, for a double-header episode tackling Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek (2009), and the franchise more generally. We discuss Star Trek's utopian glimmer, the myth of finding technological solutions to social contradictions, and the sweet fizzy taste of a state-planned economy.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com. follow Will on twitter at @BoomerNiner.

What can blue do for you?Ethan and Devin are joined by the great J.D. Connor (@jdconnor) for their return to the mind palace of James Cameron and his 2009 master/disasterpiece, Avatar. They discuss the contradictions of the film's immense financial success and limited cultural impact, its relationship to the MCU-type blockbusters that followed, and that sweet, sweet putter.You can read J.D.'s work at https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com. His piece on Nicolas Cage ("Cage Register"), which we reference in the episode, can be read at https://post45.org/2021/12/cage-register.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin watch Stephen Sommers's The Mummy (1999). They discuss the film's swashbuckling racism, (neo)colonial romance, and pour one out for the million dead Indiana Joneses buried underneath Disney World.This episode features music from Ryan Sylvester. Follow him on Instagram at raoulduke215.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin watch Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) and announce some exciting new initiatives! This episode is sponsored by Under Where? Underwear and Cope CDB Gummies. follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin watch Matthew Vaughn's The King's Man (2021). They discuss the film's shaky critique of British imperialism, the worst (best) midcredits scene of all time,  and history as an endless stream of wikipedia pages.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

Ethan and Devin are joined by Megan Tusler (@tuslersaurus) as we watch Walter Hill's The Warriors (1979). We discuss the stagnation and decay of 70s New York, the foreclosed glimpse of revolution, and why when you're forming a gang you should aim for a better theme than "roller skates and overalls."Be sure to check out Megan's amazing literature podcast, Better Read than Dead, which you can follow @betterreadpod.follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.

To celebrate their new exclusive deal with Neil Young Archives dot Com, Ethan and Devin watch John Milius's Red Dawn (1984). We discuss the film's fantastical contortions of history and its mangled production, while longing for the more artful propaganda of James Cameron. follow the pod on twitter at @youretallpod or email us at youretallpod@gmail.com.