HORROR MONTH HAS ARRIVED! On today's episode, Justin Decloux (Important Cinema Club, No Such Thing As a Bad Movie, Bay Street Video Podcast, and Very Fine Comic Book Podcast) joins Josiah and Jackal to talk about Things (1989).

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References

• "Things (1989)," Bleeding Eye Cinema on Substack, https://bleedingeyecinema.substack.com/p/review-things-1989

Music & Audio credits

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach
• Audio from Things (1989)
• Yesterday - bloom.
• Bass - NoCopyrightMusic

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The September music exchange is here!! In this installment, we discuss Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate and Houdini by Melvins. Also Josh is going to RiotFest.

Music by Sunny Day Real Estate, Melvins, and SHADE08

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On today's episode, Josiah and Alien aka Stewie Griffin DJ talked about 80 For Brady. Yeah idk man.

Music by Parquet Courts and SHADE08, as well as audio from 80 For Brady

Caleb and Jackal finally got Josiah to talk about Star Wars on the podcast. On today's episode, we discuss Andor season 1, the Star Wars franchise as a whole, and the way this show and broader franchise has taught basic revolutionary politics and history to the average moviegoing American.

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References

• "Why Andor Feels So Real," Thomas Flight on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhgXXhcPQEM
• "George Lucas on Star Wars Being Anti-Authoritarian," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9Jq_mCJEo
• Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco. Check out Episode 82. A Beehive of Contradiction for more, https://share.transistor.fm/s/0acd4f9b
• The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. Check out Episode 82. The Anatomy of Fascism (Bookclub #8) for more, https://share.transistor.fm/s/cf232faa
• ¡No Pasarán! by Matt Christman. Check out Episode 95. ¡No Pasarán! (Bookclub #9) for more, https://share.transistor.fm/s/37665090

Music & Audio credits

• Maarva's Monologue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKrm5txGCQ
• Forming Up/Unto Stone We Are - Nicholas Britell
• Yesterday – bloom.
• Andor Theme Song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k2rkeLhgjY
• "I'm a Star Wars" from The Simpsons, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI9_4L7wuXw
• Kino's Monologue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB67KzjO4A
• Bass - NoCopyrightMusic
• Lemon Yellow Black - Jets to Brazil

This is the eighth installment of the Fruitless Bookclub, a 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 ¡No Pasarán! by Matt Christman. Dear various leftists of different persuasions: please don't get mad at us. Spanish speakers, please be nice to me about my terrible pronunciation of names and phrases.

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Episode Guide

• 20:23 - Part 1. Glimmers of Republicanism: the 19th Century in Spain
• 55:40 - Part 2. The social question presses itself: entering the 20th century
• 1:20:20 - Part 3. Let's build a democracy from scratch!: The Second Republic
• 1:52:42 - Part 4. It's time for a coup: 1936-1937
• 2:33:50 - Part 5. The only thing I hate more than fascists are other leftists: 1937-1939
• 3:04:00 - Part 6. Aftermath: Francoist Spain and the revolutionary dream

Music & Audio credits

• Yesterday – bloom.
• El Paso Del Ebro - Maria Farantouri
• Wave of History - Downtown Boys
• "Himno De Riego - National Anthem of Spain (1931-1939)," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8-5QmWJH00
• The Devil in His Youth - Protomartyr
• Bitter Old Man - Ramshackle Glory
• If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers
• If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will - PUP
• Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
• Cant del Barça, the FC Barcelona Anthem, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdugskAcS0
• Bass - NoCopyrightMusic
• Spanish Bombs - The Clash

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It's August, and that means it's time for another season of the music exchange: an ongoing series where Josh and Josiah both bring an album they find personally meaningful, and then compare and contrast them. In this installment, we discuss God, Forgive These Bastards: Songs From the Forgotten Life of Henry Turner by The Taxpayers and Audioslave by Audioslave.

Music by The Taxpayers, Audioslave, and SHADE08

On today's episode, Tyler Huckabee (Sojourners) joins Josiah to discuss the history of youth groups in evangelical churches, their moral priorities, and how the adults that emerged from them reckon with their legacy.

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• Find more of Tyler's work: https://sojo.net/biography/tyler-huckabee
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References

• Thumbnail is an illustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy, pulled from article below.
• "Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us," Tyler Huckabee in Sojourners, https://sojo.net/magazine/august-2026/reckoning-youth-groups-raised-us

Audio credits

• Sentimental - Dan Darmawan
• Yesterday - bloom.
• I Want To Know You - Sonicflood
• Bass - NoCopyrightMusic
• '84 Sheepdog - As Cities Burn

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SPORTS!!! It's the fourth installment of the Fruitless Sports Corner (FSC): a semi-reoccurring series where Josiah, Nathan Thiessen, Chris Barker, and Jake the Lawyer talk about sports. On today's episode we discuss Nate meeting Pete Crow-Armstrong, the World Cup, Telemundo v. Fox, Nuts or Butts, the terrible soccer takes, the infamous Balogun red card, incredible goalkeeping, our favorite World Cup moments, Josiah fighting back his conspiratorial impulses, VAR, referees having mall cop psychology, a crazy MLB celebration, baseball ejections, Mr. Celery, the Savannah Bananas, Nate being an old guy purist about baseball, and Lebron.

Music by Viagra Boys and SHADE08