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8AM Shift
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8AM Shift is hosted by Joe and Jordan, two NYC natives (Brooklyn and Queens respectively) who breakdown pop culture and politics over multiple cups of coffee. Each episode consists of witty commentary about a daily topic, both old and new, from the lens of two geeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Episode 42: Wakanda Forever @ The Academy
Gooooood morning! Hey Shifters -- do you think Black Panther deserves the Best Picture nomination at this year's Academy Awards? The 8AM Shift does. We recently came across American Psycho author and pop culture critic Bret Easton Ellis' disapproval of the nod and felt compelled to discuss it.…
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Episode 41: The Punisher
Goooooood morning! We're back and we're talking about yet another fantastic Netflix MCU series that will likely get the axe: The Punisher. We've made mention of our infatuation with the Marvel character in previous but with season 2 having been released last month, we figure now was the time to...
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Episode 40: Netflix Hype Releases
Gooooood morning! Joe and Jordan are back from a brief hiatus to discuss the slew of hyped up Netflix releases. This includes the interactive Black Mirror movie, Bandersnatch, the Alfonso Cuarón feature, Roma, and the ultra meme-able Bird Box. Did they love each one? Did Jordan finish any of…
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Episode 39: Bring Daredevil Back To Netflix
Gooooooood morning! Mike returns to the 8AM Shift to discuss the recent cancellation of Daredevil on Netflix, which is the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series to get the axe. Mike and Jordan have both watched season 3 and can attest to the quality, which begs the question, why did they...
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Episode 38: Is Creed 2 Better Than Creed?
Goooood morning! Is Creed 2 a superior film? While most would show preference for the first one, Jordan caught the feels while watching the sequel. What was it that had him in the zone? Was it the heartwarming elements of fatherhood? The will to come back from a massive loss? Hearing "Going The...
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Episode 37: The Breaking Bad Sequel [BONUS EPISODE]
Goooooood morning! Hey Shifters — before we got sucked into Thanksgiving, we recorded an episode discussing the myriad of movies in the pipeline that are spin-offs of TV shows. This includes Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Deadwood and possibly Peaky Blinders. Yet…
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Episode 36: Our Tribute to Stan Lee
Gooooood morning! Hey Shifters, As many of you know, we are huge fans of the Marvel universe and often reference their properties on this podcast. The recent passing of Stan Lee really touched us and we felt it was only right if we eulogized him in an episode. #RIPStanLee, you kept us inspired…
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Episode 35: America's Obsession with Outlaws
Goooooooood morning! Hey Shifters have you spent the last few weeks playing Red Dead Redemption 2? Did you watch the season finale of Mayans M.C. on FX? Are secretly yearning for the Deadwood movie to finally come out? Do you secretly wish for Westworld to become a real thing or at the very least...
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Episode 34: Strange Days (1995) Review [BONUS Episode]
Gooooood morning! Question: If a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, and Juliette Lewis, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, with a screenplay co-written by James Cameron, came out in 1995, should it not have been a box-office smash? What is this movie was also a sci-fi dystopia in which…
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Episode 33: Halloween at Hill House
Happpppy Halloweeeeen! What is the overlap between mental health and the supernatural? Conventional and modern medical wisdom tells us that there isn't any overlap, but the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House definitely creates a world where those two issues can co-exist. That said, we are...
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Episode 32: NY Comic Con 2018 Wrap-Up
Goooood Morning! Well it looks like we have ourselves a New York Comic Con recap episode. Joe and Jordan sit down to chat about the annual convention that has become a cultural touchstone in New York City. While Joe discusses his experience, Jordan becomes nostalgic about another comic book...
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Episode 31: A Bronx Tale - 25 Years Later (Pt. 1)
Gooooood morning! What is the greatest coming-of-age mafia movie of all time? The answer is simple: A Bronx Tale. Largely because it’s the only coming-of-age mafia film with one of the most unique twists for a movie in its category. September 29, 2018 marked the 25th anniversary of this cult...
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Episode 30: Ozark vs. Breaking Bad vs. Oz
Goooood morning! Jumping right into we're discussing the hit Netflix series Ozark. It's been compared to Breaking Bad, which is arguably the greatest TV series ever, but is it really as good? That said, we jumped into a conversation about it with freelance writer Alex Bracetti. You may have seen...
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Episode 29: The Season 2 Preview
Gooooood morning! And we are back to a Saturday release schedule! We're also on our second season and in this episode we discuss what topics they will be running with for the next year or so. This may include... Ozark Mayans MC Oz 90's Retrospectives Episode Highlights Jordan confesses that he...
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Episode 28: Fear of a BlacKkKlansman
Gooooood morning! As mentioned in the description of the previous episode, this is the companion recording that we are releasing since we took a brief hiatus in August. This was recorded a week after the premiere of Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, which itself was released around the 1 year…
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Episode 27: Crazy Rich Azns
Gooooood morning! First off we want to apologize to all of the Shifters for our wonky schedule. To make up for being away for the last two weeks, we're dropping two episodes back-to-back. Yes, in addition to this episode, we have another one you can digest as soon as you're done with this one. So...
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Episode 26: Why You Should Watch Sorry To Bother You
Gooood morning! **Update: Joe and Jordan will be rolling episodes out mid-week moving forward! This means Wednesdays or Thursdays** What starts as a lengthy discussion about the recent Venom trailer slowly evolves into a set of hot takes about the Boots Riley film, Sorry To Bother You. While...
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Episode 25: San Diego Comic Con Trailer Wrap Up
Goooood morning! Hey Shifters, we have a special three-person episode this time around. We invited Brooklyn-native and pop culture connoisseur DJ Treats to share his thoughts on the trailers that dropped during San Diego Comic Con last week. What starts off as a conversation about the Shazam...
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Episode 24: Karen, Rick and Morty
Gooooood morning! Have you ever re-watched a movie and TV show years later and said to yourself, "Man, this couldn't get made now." Well Shifters, it's the issue that Joe and Jordan have been dealing with when it comes to their media consumption. During their conversation, Jordan shares his...
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Episode 23: The Dark Knight 10 Years Later
Gooood morning! In this episode we celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Dark Knight, a major touchstone film among older millennials and Gen X'ers everywhere. We discuss everything from the technical achievements of the film to the philosophical ones. It's a deep conversation that lends itself…
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Episode 22: Is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Problematic? + After Hours By Martin Scorsese
Goooood morning! On this amazing episode we discuss our Fourth of July celebration, things we read or listened to, antiquated cultural ideas in media and, towards the end, the 1985 Martin Scorsese movie After Hours. Here's a rundown of what to expect. Jordan has an a-"woke"ning (vomits in his...
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Episode 21: Dinosaurs and Spike Lee
Gooooood morning! Shifter, we apologize for missing the last week. We are back and in this episode we cover a lot of ground, discussing stuff that took place last week. Here are the lows... Family separation. XXXtentacion's death. Here are the highs... Joe went to watch Jurassic World: Fallen...
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Episode 20: 20-For-20
Gooood morning! For the 20th episode, we take a trip down memory and discuss everything from what we've been watching to why 1998 was such a pivotal cultural year. Here's a shortlist of some hot takes... Jordan finally watched Thor: Ragnarok Led Zeppelin never had a bad album For some reason…
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Episode 19: Infinity Beef
Goooood morning, What do you know, we're back to a Saturday release. Since we're recapping the last few weeks there are some things we may have missed. At the time of the recording, we had only seen game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals, and at time of this episode release, the Warriors have won the...
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Episode 18: This Is America (Chinese-American/Puerto Rican and Italian-American Version)
Gooood Morning! We review the media cycle from the previous 2 weeks, pre-Memorial Day weekend, and discuss the second season of the hit FX series Atlanta, the Black content creator era which we currently live in, Jordan’s recent trip to New Orleans, and his subsequent binge-watch of HBO’s The...
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Episode 17: Racism in China + The Kanye Breakdown
Goooood Morning! Hey Shifters -- we're back! Our apologies for the schedule lately, but we've got another great episode in which we share our thoughts on the Kanye West breakdown from the previous weeks. Joe thinks Kanye's always been this way and that he's entered a Britney Spears-level…
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Episode 16: The Ballad of Joey Blades
Gooood morning! Sorry for missing you all last week. This week we're back with an incredible interview with filmmaker Joseph Lingad who raised money via Kickstarter to fund his documentary, Don't Look Away: A Film About Adults with Facial Differences. Joseph shares in great detail what inspired…
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Episode 15: Maximum Carnage! Plus, Infinity War and the Venom Trailer
Goooood morning! In honor of Avengers: Infinity War weekend, we are going to NOT spoil anything related to the movie. Instead we discuss the Venom and Crazy, Rich Asians trailers, the fondness we had for 90's mini-series Maximum Carnage, and the awful Spider-Man 3 and DCU movies. Somewhere down…
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Episode 14: Yes, We Finally Discuss Wild Wild Country
Goooooood morning! So for those that have listened to previous episodes, we (Joe and Jordan) have been watching the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, which follows the incidents that took place at Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, OR in the mid-80's. For those who are unfamiliar, the Rajneesh...
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Episode 13: Ready Player (Hater) One
Good morning Shifters! Who else watched "Ready Player One"? We (Joe and Jordan) most certainly did and decided to collect our thoughts so we could riff on it. In the process we also discussed: Gundam Dragon Ball Z DinoRiders Captain Bucky O'Hare Also we spoke with filmmaker Salima Koroma who...
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Episode 12: Over-The-Top-TV Killed The Water Cooler Star
Good morning Shifters! Joe re-watched the first episode of "The Wire", Jordan watched the first episode of the "Roseanne" re-boot, and both the twain shall meet. They also discuss the Steven Spielberg comments about how Netflix movies should not qualify for the Academy Awards. In addition Joe and...
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Episode 11: The End of March...Madness
Good morning Shifters! Let’s cut right to the chase: March 2018 has been crazy. The NCAA brackets have been leading the conversation around athletics, however, the socio-political conversation has been dominating the news. In roughly 3 weeks we saw... Gun control and reform and the next…
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Episode 10: Paddington Bear Meets The Punisher
Hey Shifters, Looks like we missed a week because we were hella busy but we are back with another gem. In this episode we discuss... Our affinity for "Paddington" the movie How "Paddington" stacks up against "Ted" Joe's experience watching the first episode of "The Punisher" "The Sopranos"…
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Episode 9: Oscar's 2018 Analysis
Joe and Jordan discuss the 90th Academy Awards, the movies that won and lost, and the actors and actresses whose performances blew them away this past year. Later on Joe and Jordan go back in time, a la "Wayne's World", and review an older recording to see if any of their Oscar Award predictions...
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Episode 8: The Week Joe Was Away
So last week, Joe took a few days off to explore Paris, France with his fiance which left Jordan looking for someone to temporarily replace him. While one would think it was an easy task finding a co-host for one episode, the truth is it's kind of difficult to fill Joe's Vans Sk8-Hi's.…
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Episode 7: President's Day 2018
Total transparency, we recorded this a little bit before President’s Day. However, we wanted to share our thoughts on the SOTUS from earlier this month and the other current events/pop cultural "nuggets" that came out of it. We also took a moment to interview Dan Johnson, a military veteran who...
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Episode 6: Watch Black Panther + Our Mother's Love West Side Story
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Episode 5: Post-Super Bowl LII
On this episode, Joe and Jordan recount what it felt like to witness Tom Brady NOT winning a Super Bowl for the third time. Of course, we also go in on some of the ads which we had the pleasure of watching. If you want to read the Harvard Business Review article which we reference, click HERE....
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Episode 4: Problematic Comedians
On this episode of the #8AMShift, we dive into some more Netflix gold -- the recent release of The Godfather Trilogy and the Dave Chappelle comedy specials that dropped right before New Year's (Equanimity and The Bird Revelation). We also source some opinions on the recent allegations against…
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Episode 3: Not-So-Bright Mirror
Gooooood morning! 8AM Shift is back and this time we're discussing the Netflix original movie "Bright" as well as the fourth season of their series "Black Mirror." Take a guess at which one is better. Shifters -- follow us on Instagram and Giphy: @8AMShift. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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Episode 2: Paul Provolone for Mayor
Hey Shifters -- we're back with another episode. Recorded on September 21, 2017, we discuss the NYC Mayoral Primaries. Since the Mayoral Debate just took place, we figure we share what was going through our minds during the first round of local area voting. All in all, this episode is all about…
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Episode 1: Game of Cop Land
On the first episode of 8AM Shift, Joe and Jordan break down Game of Thrones S07 E04 - "Spoils of War". We're publishing a little late on this but it was on our minds when we recorded it. For Jordan, Game of Thrones is more than a fantasy drama, it's a metaphor and lesson on business and…
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8AM Shift is hosted by Joe and Jordan, two NYC natives (Brooklyn and Queens respectively) who breakdown pop culture and politics over multiple cups of coffee. Each episode consists of witty commentary about a daily topic, both old and new, from the lens of two geeks.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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