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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162 episodes
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
NOLAN VOID 1.0: FOLLOWING *SEASON PREMIERE*
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN SZN!FOLLOWING *SEASON PREMIERE*For Season 12 *Nolan Void*, TGTPTU continues its iconic practice of pairing bookended movies from a director’s filmography, first and last until we pair the ...
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Season 12
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Episode 1
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53:41
ARONOFSKY FINALE! SEASON FINALE!
Our Darren Ssarfinale!Season 11 of The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly concludes on an odd note, both mathematically and colloquially, as the boys wrap up their Darren Aronofsky season with Episode 9 covering PERFECT BLUE (1...
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Season 11
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Episode 9
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1:23:41
ARONOFSKY 8: BLACK SWAN
DARREN ARONOFSKY CH. 4 E2: THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SWAN ON THE SUN TODAYSeason 11’s temporal pincer movement by The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly draws to a close with tricky reflections on BLACK SWAN (2010). Listen to our opinions ...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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59:20
ARONOFSKY: CH 4 PT 1: THE WRESTLER
SCARF SEASON: ARONOFSKY 7Alright, brother. It’s the smackdown, drag-out matchup you’ve been waiting for all season long as THE WRESTLER (2008) jumps into the ring with The Good, The Pod, and the Ugly for Chapter 4, Episode 1. In ...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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1:03:40
ARONOFSKY 6: I NOAH LOT
ARONOFSKY SEASON! NOAHChapter 3, Episode 2: So the Voice of Kenneth spake unto The Good, The Pod, and the Ugly, and it sayeth: Let there be NOAH (2014); and all the peoples then of the world rejoiced for Darren Aron...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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1:07:36
ARONOFSKY: CH 3 PT 1:THE FOUNTAIN
THE FOUNTAINNo one expects the Spanish Inquisition, and no one expected Darren Aronofsky to follow up the success of Requiem for a Dream with a genre-breaking, scyfy-romantic-period-spiritual-medical drama (kinda? maybe?) entitled...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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59:12
ARONOFSKY CH. 2 PT. 2: mother!
SCARF SEASON #4: GARDEN OF EDITS: mother!Rejoin Ken and Thomas along with guest Shannon in the rebirth of Season 11, Chapter II as they tackle (figuratively) Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER! (the 2017 film, not the pare...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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46:01
ARONOFSKY CH 2 PT 1: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
DARREN ARONOFSKY CHAPTER TWO, PART ONE:Deuce by you! Deuce by you! Whoa #2! REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000), Darren Aronofsky’s second film, follows these three simple rules for success:#1 Adapt a novel y...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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1:08:49
ARONOFSKY CH. 1 PT. 2: THE WHALE
SCARF SEASON CONTINUES WITH THE WHALE!Thar she blows, Part II of our initial Darren Aronofsky pairing for Season 11 of TGTPTU: THE WHALE (2023). Special guest Ryan returns to continue cohosts Ken and Thomas’ temporal pincer movement of w...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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1:17:55