The Good, The Pod and The Ugly
Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken, Ryan and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through thirteen season they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).
SEASON 14: REDUX 2025! Watching movies we've already covered for fresh perspective and better audio!
Episodes
183 episodes
REDUX: WHITE SNIPER, BLACK HEART PT.1
WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART Episode 7, and you can feel the excitement of the hunt this episode, the first of TGTPTU’s final paired rewatches of the Redux Season (Season 14) and another double Eastwood starting with a bang with...
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Episode 7
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1:01:39
REDUX: BAD TRIPS PT. 2: 15:17 TO PARIS
The 15:17 to ParisEpisode 6, all aboard! TGTPTU rides the Season 14 train to the end of the line of this third pairing of the season. Another rewatch of an Eastwood-directed film, this car was originally hitched to Season 1, Episo...
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Season 14
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Episode 6
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1:10:34
REDUX: BAD TRIPS PT. 1: HONKYTONK MAN
HONKYTONK MAN TGTPTU continues to play its old hits with Episode 5 of Season 14, its redux series season celebrating five years and <cough, cough> don’t you worry about us, hoss, we’ll get through this pairing of Eastwo...
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Season 14
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Episode 5
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1:02:15
REDUX: ANIMAL FARM PT. 2: THE WHALE
THE WHALEIt’s the fourth episode of Season 14, and our hungry boys are still going for seconds with their rewatch of the recently covered THE WHALE (2022), original episode from TGTPTU’s initial pairing that started the epic scarf...
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Season 14
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Episode 4
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53:44
REDUX: ANIMAL FARM PT. 1 PIG
PIGSeason 14 continues serving up second helpings of movies previously covered on TGTPTU with PIG (2021). Jack’s flick picked this week pulls from his, Ken’s, and then recently added host Thomas’s post-Eastwood season CAGE UNCAGED...
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Episode 3
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50:37
REDUX SZN: DEATH BECOMES HIM PT. 2: HOLY ZEMECKIS
DEATH BECOMES HER (1992)For the second episode in TGTPTU’s Season 14 redux series, the film choice was Thomas’s. As he explains at the top of the ep, he wanted to do a Streep rewatch with recent co-host Ryan, specifically and espe...
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Episode 2
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59:53
“REDUX” SEASON PREMIERE! DEATH BECOMES HIM WITH “HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER”
High Plains Drifter (1973)TRIGGER WARNING: HPD features sexual assault as a plot point. Season 14, a new season with a hefty helping of old, comes to town as the TGTPTU hosts return to movies they undervalued an...
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Season 14
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Episode 1
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59:54
LARS VON TRIER #4: THE GANG SELLS THE COMPANY, "THE BOSS OF IT ALL"
BOSS OF IT ALL (2006)Well, as the famous playwright Antonio Gambini once wrote: All good things (and Season 13 of TGTPTU) must come to a close. And what better stage for which our four hosts to give their final thoughts and review...
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Season 13
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Episode 18
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57:49
LARS VON TRIER #3: NATURE SPURTS WITH "ANTICHRIST"
4X4: Lars von Trier #3Breaking our own arbitrary rules just like Lars von Trier, the enfant terrible final director of Season 13’s 4x4, the TGTPTU crew for our final pairing breaks with release date order <gasp!> t...
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Season 13
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Episode 17
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1:04:43
LARS VON TRIER #2: GETTING FUZZY WITH DANCER IN THE DARK
DANCER IN THE DARK (2000)Broadcasting live from 1964, and entirely in song, this week’s very special episode of TGTPTU covers Lars von Trier’s sixth film (but only our second of his covered this 4x4): DANCER IN THE DARK (2000). &n...
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Season 13
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Episode 16
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1:03:02
4X4: LARS VON TRIER #1: GET WET
ELEMENTWelcome to a new year and a new director as TGTPTU’s latest 4x4 reaches its fourth of four directors: Lars Von Trier. We start with his first wide-release feature THE ELEMENT OF CRIME (1984). And so begins our...
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Season 13
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Episode 15
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1:07:15
MERRY CLINTMAS! JUROR #2 AND 2024 WRAP-UP
JUROR #2 It’s late-December and, foregoing our usual Christmas-adjacent movie watch, this year TGTPTU has a very special treat for the holidays. That’s right, listener, we bring to you our hot takes on what may prove to be Clint ...
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Season 13
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Episode 14
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1:37:12
BIG WILLIE #4: THE COLLECTOR (OR HOW ELON AND GRIMES MET)
4X4X3: WILLIAM WYLER CONCLUSION: THE COLLECTORTGTPTU wraps its third director of Season 13’s 4x4 with a discussion of a fourth and final William Wyler film THE COLLECTOR (1965). Like The Big Country, its paired film from ...
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Season 13
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Episode 13
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1:04:41
BIG WILLIE #3: THE BIG COUNTRY
4X4: WILLIAM WYLER. #3: THE BIG COUNTRY(Note: Don't skip the theme song this week)TGTPTU Host Ryan’s Willie gets a glow-up with THE BIG COUNTRY (1958), the third in our cultivated William Wyler collection....
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Season 13
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Episode 12
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1:08:47
WILLIAM WYLER #2: 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
