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It's the first music exchange of 2026! In this installment, Josh and I discuss Bows + Arrows by The Walkmen and 1000 Hurts by Shellac. Also we talk about Guys.

Music by The Walkmen, Shellac, and SHADE08

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Continuing the tradition of kicking off the year with some low effort episodes while I (Josiah) recover from working the holidays, Caleb, James C. Liker, and eventually Josh joined me to hang out and mostly talk about movies. We spoil Bugonia. We also touch briefly on the recent ICE murder in Minneapolis.

Music by SHADE08

It is a tradition now to kick off the new year with a low effort episode so that I can recover from the holidays. So this year, Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer join Josiah to hang out and talk about craft beer and coffee, the "seizing"/"capture"/"kidnapping"/"abduction" of Maduro, declining literacy, and some sports.

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Reference

• "Venezuelan Exiles Root for U.S. Military Action. Those Left Behind Oppose It," Ryan Dubé in The Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/venezuelan-exiles-root-for-u-s-military-action-those-left-behind-oppose-it-01d3afe0

Music & Audio credits

• Yesterday – bloom.
• One - Metallica

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For the final episode of 2025, Phil Cozzi returns to talk about The Bishop's Wife (1947), a Christmas movie about an angel teaching a workaholic Episcopal bishop to be nice to his wife. We also talk about Christmas movie tropes in general, and Phil does some theologizing.

Music by SHADE08

This is the last episode of 2025 on the free feed. Josh, Alien, and Josiah take you on a journey through Kevin Smith's filmography. I'm so sorry that we're ending the year on this note.

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Music & Audio credits

• Hungry - Liadiii
• Yesterday – bloom.
• We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart

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It's a very special holiday Christmas music exchange! In this installment, Josh and I discuss The Lost Christmas Eve by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and If I Should Fall From Grace with God by The Pogues. Also not being in the Christmas spirit.

Music by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Pogues, and SHADE08

After a year long hiatus, the Fruitless Bookclub is back. This is the seventh installment of that show-within-a-show, featuring Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer, where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France by Todd Shepard, a dense, academic look at the confusing constitutional crisis France experienced in the wake of Algerian independence. Join us as we discuss France's strange attempt to deny that Algeria was a colony, the racial implications of that denial, and how Charles de Gaulle used the crisis for his own political aims.

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Music & Audio credits

• Yesterday – bloom.
• Mao Boy - Indochine

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More and more people are calling December 1st really just November 31st. That's right, it's the November music exchange. In this installment, Josh and I discuss The Dismemberment Plan is Terrified by Dismemberment Plan and My Life as a Woman by Couch Slut. Also we talk about the movies and the state of cinema. Content warning on this one.

Music by Dismemberment Plan, Couch Slut, and SHADE08