Episode 231 – JOKER

Runtime94 minutes Show Contents: 0:00 Introduction 3:04 Know Your Enemy: Lindsay Traves 20:22 The New Slang: JOKER 71:20 The Other Side: Lindsay and Ryan talk further reading after Todd Phillips’ new film Thoughts From Your Host… Welcome back, everyone. September was a rush and October promises to be more of the same. But one can only surrender to the rush for so long before one needs to turn the mic back on. So we return to the matter at-hand…and in this case “the matter at hand” seems to have been discussed for the entire time we’ve been on break! From the moment the film in this episode debuted at TIFF up until this very moment it has been the source of much hand-wringing, preaching, pontificating, yelling, belitting, and all sorts of other “ings”. Here we are ready to dig into it on-mic, a mere three days after it opened, and it already feels like we’re a year late to the discussion. Nevertheless, we carry forth. Links Mentioned on Episode 231: One detail that didn’t make the edit was Lindsay’s suggestions of the best Joker comics that one could read instead of watching the new film. Those titles include A Death in The Family, Death of The Family, Lovers and Madmen, and The Killing Joke, Matineecast 224 where Andrew Robinson and I discuss RAGING BULL Lindsay’s review of JOKER Lindsay’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.  Enjoy!