The Good, The Pod and The Ugly
Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through twelve season they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).
SEASON 13: 4X4 3! Four films by four directors. Aldrich, Von Trier, Wyler and Tsai Ming-Liang.
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169 episodes
WILLIAM WYLER #3: LIKE SAND THROUGH AN HOUR GLASS... SO ARE OUR DESPERATE HOURS
WILLIAM WYLER: PART 2 OF 4: THE DESPERATE HOURSPaired with last week’s Detective Story, TGTPTU’s Big Willie Winter continues with THE DESPERATE HOURS (1955), another black-and-white film adaptation by William Wyler and a ra...
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Season 13
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Episode 11
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1:08:38
WILLIAM WYLER #1: DON'T SAY THE A WORD, DETECTIVE STORY
DETECTIVE STORYSeason 13’s 4x4 has reached its 1/2way point with our 9th of 16 movies and a new director, provisional co-host Ryan’s pick of the 15-time Academy Award-nominated, 3-time Oscar-winning director William Wyler. This w...
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Season 13
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Episode 10
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1:08:52
TSAI MING-LIANG: MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS
4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG 4: DAYSTGTPTU’s back to finish (cough) the job handily (cough) with a happy ending (oh boy) for our coverage of director Tsai Ming-liang, coming together (really, dude?) to get every ounce our four ...
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Season 13
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Episode 9
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1:00:37
HaLLoWeEn SPECIAL: JEREMY SAULNIER'S GREEN ROOM
2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!NOTE: Approximately 35 punk rock band names are concealed in these show notes. Play along!It’s the end of October, which means the four misfits of TGTPTU are back with a special Birth-/ Halloween/El...
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Season 13
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Episode 8
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1:27:07
TSAI MING-LIANG III: GOODBYE MOVIES
This week’s Season 13 4x4 entry is GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003), the third of four films curated by guest host Jack to represent the filmography of director Tsai Ming-liang. The original TPTGTU boys are reunited this ep with the return of ...
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Season 13
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Episode 7
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1:15:39
TSAI MING-LIANG'S EMPATHY MACHINE: "STRAY DOGS"
4X4 2: TSAI MING-LIANG and "STRAY DOGS"Our four film investigation into slow cinema master Tsai Miang-liang tackles his 2013 masterpiece STRAY DOGS. If you can vibe to a five minute opening static shot of a woman b...
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Season 13
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Episode 6
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59:35
4X4: Tsai Ming-liang Pt. 1: Smoking and Scooting
4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG: REBELS OF THE NEON GODIt's the beginning of our four film dive into Queer Asian New Wave master Tsai Ming-liang. Released in 1992 and made shortly after Taiwan's "quiet revolution" from a dictatorship to...
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Season 13
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Episode 5
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1:04:29
ROBERT ALDRICH IV: 4TH AND THE LONGEST YARD
THE LONGEST YARDThis week, the TGTPTU boys return to prison for more fun and games, this time stopping this 4x4 season’s first round drafted director Robert Aldrich’s run with inches to go. For the final film of the first four and...
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Season 13
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Episode 4
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1:20:33
ROBERT ALDRICH III: WE SOME KINDA DIRTY DOZEN?
THE DIRTY DOZENSeason 13’s 4x4 marches on with the most ill-mannered, ill-disciplined hosts that it’s ever been you’re your displeasure to meet, sergeant. That’s right, the dirtiest voices in the TGTPTU’s army are getting filthier...
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Season 13
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Episode 3
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1:09:45
ROBERT ALDRICH II: WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BABY JANE, ANYWAY?
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?TGTPTU Season 13’s 4x4 continues with the second half of its first Robert Aldrich pairing, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962). Like last week’s entry, WEH2BJ is another black-and-wh...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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1:10:37
SEASON PREMIERE: ROBERT ALDRICH and THE CIRCLE OF ANNIHILATION
Kiss Me DeadlyWelcome back to TGTPTU, and welcome back in Season 13 to both former cohost Jack and to the 4x4, the latter making its third season appearance! For TGTPTU stans reading this, able to recite the following explanation ...
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Season 13
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Episode 1
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1:23:32
NOLAN VOID FINALE: A PINCH OF PAPRIKA
PAPRIKAFor the final episode of Season 12 Nolan Void, the TGTPTU gents get timey-wimy as they repeat last season finale with another film from anime director Satoshi Kon also allegedly plagiarized by the season’s director, this ti...
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Season 12
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Episode 13
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1:48:11
NOLAN VOID 6.5: INCEPTED
The One With The Dream Stuff Inside Oppenheimer INCEPTIONThis week TGTPTU reaches the timey-wimey center of Season 12 as the Nolan Void temporal pincer pairing movement ends with INCEPTION (2010), Sir Chris’s studio-b...
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Season 12
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Episode 12
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1:12:53
NOLAN VOID: WATCH THE WORLD BURN
TGTPTU reaches the beginning of the end of Season 12 as the team covers THE DARK KNIGHT (2008), the penultimate NOLAN VOID film in our temporal pincer pairing movement. Rebounding from the only moderate success of The Prestige...
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Season 12
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Episode 11
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1:21:56
NOLAN VOID 5.5: BANE BREAKIN’
This week, the TGTPTU’s untrademarked “temporal pincer movement” catches up with the boys as THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012), Sir Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy, gets covered before his penultimate The Dark Knight. Sir...
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Season 12
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Episode 10
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1:34:46
NOLAN VOID 5.0 BATMAN V. WOLVERINE in THE PRESTIGE!
TGTPTU Book Club returns this week with Sir Christopher Nolan’s first and only adaption, i.e., THE PRESTIGE (2006), with bookworm and repeat guest Shannon joining from The Bunker. Post-Batman Begins, Sir Nolan returned to his...
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Season 12
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Episode 9
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1:20:39
NOLAN VOID 4.5: INTERSTELLA DA-VIDA
INTERSTELLARIn this week’s episode of TGTPTU, director-writer-producer Sir Christopher Nolan adds space to his repertoire of time-bending narratives as we venture deeper into The Nolan Void with INTERSTELLAR (2014). &n...
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Season 12
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Episode 8
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1:30:11
Nolan Void 4.0: Batman Baggins
BATMAN BEGINSCast aside your Batnipples! As a certain Patrick Bateman lookalike once said, “Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues,” and this week, TGTPTU tackles these issues in Sir Christopher Nolan’s entry int...
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Season 12
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Episode 7
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1:27:10
NOLAN VOID 3.5: DUNKIRK STARRING HARRY STYLES
NOLAN VOID 3.5: WET 'N WILD WWII Join TGTPTU for an hour, a day, a week—the approximate runtime of, how long it feels listening to us talk for, and the delay in releasing the episode due to internet issues, respectiv...
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Season 12
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Episode 6
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1:04:38
NOLAN VOID 5: CAN’T SLEEP? MORK WON’T HELP
NOLANVOID FIVE!For the first in our third set of NOLAN VOID pairings this week, TGTPTU hosts Ken and Thomas take on the surprisingly linear INSOMNIA (2002) with newly appointed co-host Ryan to introduce a new drinking game...
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Season 12
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Episode 5
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1:04:52
NOLAN VOID 2.5: TENET
This week TGTPTU goes deeper into Season 12’s NOLAN VOID with TENET (2020), a title spelled the same forward and backward, and the progenitor of TGTPTU’s “temporal pincer movement” description of our podcast’s episode pairing methodology.
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1:21:09
NOLAN VOID 2.0: MEMENTOS: THE FRESHMAKER
MEMENTOOur Nolan Void Season continues with the first of our second pairing MEMENTO (2000). Many of you might suspect we would try writing these show notes in reverse, but, as that’d be too meta for us, we’ll leave that to some other asp...
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1:09:39
NOLAN VOID 1.5: OPPENHEIMER
Season 12, Episode 2 continues TGTPTU’s paired exploration of the films of Sir Christopher Nolan with his most recent film OPPENHEIMER (2023). Running the risk of being considered by critics a “bomb,” Sir Nolan boldly moves away fro...
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Season 12
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Episode 2
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1:25:11
