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DESTROY ALL CULTURE
by Aidan and Adam
An hour-long chat about science fiction television and movies.
Episodes
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DAC Episode 416 - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
what is going on with ethan’s hair in this movie? It’s not the crewcut-adjacent trims of 1,3,5 and 7. it’s not the gorgeous flop of 2,4 and 6. this shaggy deal looks like it’s trying to integrate both sides of the hunthair persona. pick a lane, hunt. a solomon lane. Mission: Impossible - The…
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DAC Episode 415 - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (lol) (2023)
woah fellas, let’s not bother hayley atwell, she’s blameless here The best thing about the seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible is its strange status as ‘Part One’ of a one-part story. The eighth movie, when it eventually arrived, had grown a protective shell around itself during the…
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DAC Episode 414 - Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
footloose, footloose, kick off your sunday shoes Children, gather ‘round, and I will tell you of a time before plagues and strikes, before LLMs crawled over our data like soul-eating spiders, back when greedy corporations made honest blockbusters, the kind you could see in an actual movie…
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DAC Episode 413 - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
when your trying to survive a high-speed chase but your knee is soooo itchy. Has superspy ETHAN HUNT finally met his MATCH in nasally toned apostate SOLOMON LANE??? No. DAC Episode 413 - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) Adam P Knave and Aidan Morgan Download
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DAC Episode 412 - Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
ethan hunt struggling with ethan hunt for ethan hunt supremacy. More like GOAT Protocol, amirite? The last MI installment before the McQuarrie half of the franchise, Ghost Protocol is a banger of a blockbuster. A blocker of a bustbanger? A buster of a bangblocker? Whatever, it’s great. Let me...
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DAC Episode 411 - Mission: Impossible III (2006)
“Threes! They’re absolutely impossible!” is a thing no one in Mission: Impossible III says at any point. Instead, characters say things like “Copy” and “Roger that” and “I’m going to die unless you kill me”. M:I 3 is a bit of a paradox: both the platonic ideal of a Mission Impossible film and a...
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DAC Episode 410 - Mission: Impossible II (2000)
tom cruise looking like he’s just lost a battle with his bowels at a crucial moment. Mission: Impossible II. Is it the best movie in the franchise? The most coherent? The coolest? The most enjoyable? The one entry that isn’t openly misogynistic? The one that didn’t decide on Dougray Scott as a...
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DAC Episode 409 - Mission: Impossible (1996)
not flying but hovering Has Tom Cruise ever been younger than he was in the first Mission: Impossible movie? In the literal sense, yes. But in the very specific rhetorical sense that I’m asking you to accept here, no. He has never looked more baby-faced and callow than he does in the first...
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DAC Episode 408 - The Italian Job (1969)
the self-preservation society Oh, Cool Britannia. A young Michael Caine gathering a gang of thieves in colour-coded Mini Coopers to stage an endless car chase through the streets of Turin? We used to be a proper something or other. Listen below or find us on your podcatcher of choice. DAC Episode...
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DAC Episode 407 - Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
finally, a dead lion. Just in time for Marchoween (or Marchowe’en for your purists), it’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Richard O’Brien’s culsterpiece (that’s a word now) of queernema (that’s also a word now). Once more, friend of the show D.J. Kirkbride pops by to talk about the movie and…
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DAC Episode 406 - Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
Is Marvel back in 2026? Was it back in mid-2025, when Fantastic Four: First Steps hit theatres? If it’s back, where did it go? Under the ocean with the corpse of the Celestial from The Eternals? Off in some other numbered dimension of the multiverse? Is there, as we speak, another universe in…
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DAC Episode 405 - The Stuff (1985)
nom nom nom Sometimes you come up with a pitch-perfect satire of consumerism. Then you put Michael Moriarty in the lead role and give him a toupee. Life’s funny that way. Listen below as we wade through The Stuff, or find us on your podcaster of choice. DAC Episode 405 - The Stuff (1985) Adam P...
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DAC Episode 404 - Superman (2025)
a live dog with a live dog sidekick. Joining us! On this week’s podcast! Is comics editor and writer D.J.! Kirkbride! D.J., our resident Superman co-authority (along with Adam) is following up on his triumphant appearance on our Superman (1978) episode. What did we think of James Gunn’s take on…
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DAC Episode 403 - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3
feels like a dead lion trying desperately to revive itself here. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 came and went (much like Captain Batel, heyyy-yo), leaving a lot of puzzled Trek fans in its wake. Holodeck murder mysteries? Zombie Klingons or something? Statue’d-up Marie? Sure, whatever.…
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DAC Episode 402 - Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)
this man will never be a dead lion. What do you do after you make a movie about a man who needs constant jolts of adrenaline to keep his heart beating? You, uh… steal his heart and replace it with an artificial model that needs constant jolts of current to keep it beating? Yeah, that’s the…
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DAC Episode 401 - Crank (2006)
a live dog would like a word with you. Many people claim that the cinema of 2007, with its countries not intended for seniors and forecasts of blood like satanic weathermen, is the peak year for 21st century cinema. Of course, those snobby cineastes fail to account for the previous year, which...
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DAC Episode 400 - A Life Spent Watching Movies
Welcome friends (and enemies! We know you’re out there) to Episode 400 of Destroy All Culture. For this episode, we forgo our usual focus on a single movie to talk about our history with movies and media in general, from Star Wars and Wizard of Oz to the beclowned state of the current…
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DAC Episode 399 - Miller's Crossing (1990)
when he’s raised hell you’ll know it, sister. If you’ve listened to our previous episode on Rian Johnson’s Brick, you’ll already be aware of thematic and artistic touchpoints between Brick’s highschoolers-in-a-Hammett-novel premise and Miller’s Crossing, which could fairly be described as the…
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DAC Episode 398 - Brick (2005)
he wants to see the ‘pin. A cynical teenager in scuffed shoes gets a mysterious phone call. An enigmatic message is left in a locker. A blonde girl lies dead in a culvert. Oh, and everyone talks in the argot of a ‘40s noir film. After all, doesn’t high school feel like an unending crime scene for…
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DAC Episode 397 - May (2002)
a live dog beset by dead lion (maternal superego located in a doll). It seems bizarre that it’s taken so long for this podcast to get around to Lucky McKee’s May, the 2002 cult favourite about a young woman who, faced with relentless imperfection in the world around her, decides to make something...
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DAC Episode 396 - White Nights (1985)
White Nights! The nights are white. The country is red. The politics are red, white and blue. The lives are separate and ongoing. The saying is you and me. The pirouettes are plentiful (11 in total). The Baryshnikov is Mikhail, the Hines is Gregory. The meet is cute. The couple is odd. The dances...
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DAC Episode 395 - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
sky dog and the lion of tomorrow When Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow came out in 2004, much was made of the fact that director Kerry Conran had landed the job on the strength of a short film painstakingly made on his computer. The feature length film, starring a staggeringly...
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DAC Episode 394 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
the definition of live dogs. DAC Episode 394 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Adam P Knave and Aidan Morgan Download
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DAC Episode 393 (Valmerpalooza #4) - Tombstone (1993)
you know, i’m something of a huckleberry myself. Sometimes a great performance turns an average movie into a classic. It’s hard to imagine Tombstone without Kilmer’s grand and tragic take on Doc Holliday, a man whose vanity seems to be consuming him from the inside throughout the film. Tombstone...
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DAC Episode 392 - Road House (1989)
you know what, pain actually does hurt. Unless you’re dalton. Never mind the remakes, here’s the original in all its glory. Adam and Aidan get a little rapturous about the bizarre Road House world of bar bouncers and the cooler so legendary that his name evokes hushed awe. A dirtbag John Wick. A...
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DAC Episode 391 - Purple Rain (1984)
dig if you will this picture. Prince Rogers Nelson was a brilliant musician, a stylish-as-hell dresser and a singular person. He was not a great filmmaker or screen presence, but Purple Rain mostly functions as a concert film with a plot and some conflict strung between the numbers. And for that...
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DAC Episode 390 (Valmerpalooza #3) - Willow (1988)
If you sit down and watch a run of Val Kilmer movies, eventually you will discover a sub-sub-genre that I call In It for the Val - that is, functional and mediocre movies that are only elevated by the presence of a Val Kilmer performance. Is Willow one of those movies? Ha ha, yes. Despite the…
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DAC Episode 389 (Valmerpalooza #2) - Real Genius (1985)
ADAM: Is there a movie more important to the history of cinema and my psyche than Real Genius? AIDAN: Real Genius is a hall of mirrors in which a Conradian secret sharer may be glimpsed flashing through the ‘80s-era staple of the raunchy campus comedy, a proto-Ferris Bueller, and an advertisement...
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Valmerpalooza #1 - Top Secret! (1984)
This is the first installment of our series of episodes on the films of Val Kilmer. In accordance with Mr. Kilmer’s final wishes, we are calling the series Valmerpalooza. In the wake of World War II, George Orwell wrote a searing novel of government repression and propaganda called Nineteen…
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DAC Episode 387 - Superman (1978)
proof that superman has a special interest in railroads. Dah-da-da-dah, Su-per-man Dah-da-da-dah, SUPERMAN For this week’s Destroy All Culture, we invite D.J. Kirkbride, late of our Robot Jox episode, to talk about Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman. Our hot take of a conclusion: this is a pretty…
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DAC Episode 385 - Weird Science (1985)
John Hughes famously wrote the script for Weird Science in only two days, but it’s likely that he was carrying around this particular fantasy in his head for at least a couple of decades. How else do you characterize a story about horny adolescents who create the perfect woman in their bedroom?...
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DAC Episode 384 - Rocky Balboa (2006)
somehow, still, a live dog. Before Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan rebirthed the Rocky franchise with Creed, but after Sylvester Stallone kicked around the corpse of his own creation in Rocky V, there came the odd bridge of Rocky Balboa, a wistful and occasionally charming examination of what...
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DAC Episode 383 - My Blue Heaven (1990)
now there’s a live dog. Did you watch Goodfellas back in 1990 and think “Hey, this should be a wacky comedy with Rick Moranis and Steve Martin”? If so, you’re in luck. You’re in so much luck. Like Goodfellas, My Blue Heaven is loosely based on the story of Henry Hill, the mobster who went into…
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DAC Episode 382 - Midnight Run (1988)
True facts about Joe Pantoliano: He fought and defeated the last living dragon of the moorlands, but showed mercy at the last minute and spared its life. They’re now good friends and have a time share in Palmdale. He once jumped back in horror and screamed “It’s the ‘haint of Loch Gullmar!” at a...
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DAC Episode 381 - Footloose (1984)
everybody cut, everybody cut. What if normal, but dancing? What if dancing, but really bad dancing? What if James Dean, but Kevin Bacon? What if Natalie Wood, but Lori Singer? What if Sal Mineo, but Chris Penn? What if John Lithgow? What if Foot… but Loose? Listen below, or find us where podcasts...
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DAC Episode 380 - A League of Their Own (1992)
one dead lion, one live dog. There used to be a sports league The A-A-G-B-P-G-L They used to play some baseball They’d get out there and give them hell Okay, I’m too hungry to come up with more lyrics. Adam and Aidan put on their baseball pants and talk about the baseball that isn’t Bull Durham....
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DAC Episode 379 - Legend (1986)
now there’s a live dog (whoops, it’s a dead lion) Filmmaker and YouTuber Patrick Willems once attempted to define what he called a “vibes movie”. A vibes movie, more or less, is a film that prioritizes atmosphere and filmmaking elements over a coherent plot. Willems lands on Tenet as the ultimate...
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DAC Episode 378 - Ladyhawke (1985)
better to be a live knight than a dead hawk. DRAFT #1 You know what they say: sometimes you hawke the lady, sometimes the lady hawkes you. That may not be the premise or the moral of 1985’s Ladyhawke (the ‘e’ is silent), but - DRAFT #2 Few works of modern cinema adress the question of who hawkes...
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DAC Episode 376 - Flash Gordon (1980)
a live woodbeast. Every so often, Adam and Aidan watch a movie that feels like the equivalent of someone trying to write a 20-page English paper at 3 a.m. without having read the text. On the other hand, sometimes that mix of Monster Energy and desperation produces weird bursts of genius. How…
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DAC Episode 375 - Barbarella (1968)
In 1968, fans of science fiction movies had two options (please don’t fact check this, there’s no need): 2001: A Space Odyssey or Roger Vadim’s Barbarella. Which movie was superior? Critics are still fiercely divided on the question (again, please don’t fact check this), but I can tell you one...
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DAC Episode 374 - The Silent Partner (1978)
a live dog pretending to be a canadian. Quick: who’s the least Canadian man ever to walk this Earth? Who resolutely refuses to embody a single particle of Canadian-ness? If you answered with Elliott Gould, you’d be right. So who better to portray a mild-mannered Torontonian bank teller who runs...
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DAC Episode 373 - The Warriors (1979)
once a live dog, always a live dog The Warriors! The million-meme spawning, reality-adjacent adaptation of a 2,400 year old Greek poem, transformed into a carnivalesque vision of a New York City run by elaborately themed gangs straight out of a Lucy Sante book. Best known these days for David...
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DAC Episode 372 - Risky Business (1983)
some dead lions think they’re live dogs. Capitalism! Dream states! The non-narrative oneiric space of fulfillment that may be a train, or it may be the celluloid strip of film itself! Oh yeah, and Tom Cruise is there. Join Adam and Aidan as they break down Paul Brickman’s Risky Business. Listen...
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DAC Episode 371: Mr. Mom (1983)
a live dog discovering that he doesn’t want to be a dead lion. The year 1983 had its share of radical concepts, but perhaps none pushed the envelope quite like Mr. Mom, which dared to ask: what if a man… took care of his children? The answer, it turns out, is chaos and wackiness. Can a harried…
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DAC Episode 370 - Young Guns (1988)
a buncha dead lions. There’s something I need to clear up before I get to the end of this sentence: Young Guns, the movie, should be called Young People Who Use Guns. I thumbed this bad boy into my VCR, expecting a detailed treatise on the age of every gun shown in the movie (at the very least, a...
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DAC 369 - Repo Man (1984)
two guys destined for a ride to the stars, or maybe just mars. (in which Adam and Aidan spend some time talking about the prequel to Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday) (diversions include embarrassing high school anecdotes, soundtrack enthusiasms, and the terror of a man with a disintegrating mind driving...
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DAC Episode 368 - Upgrade (2018)
a dead lion and a live dog Upgrading. It’s all anyone’s talking about these days. Some people say you should upgrade, others say you should downgrade. The other day I heard someone make a convincing case that we should all degrade. How about that? People are wild these days, with all the talk…
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DAC Episode 367 - Night of the Comet (1984)
the burden of civilization rests on these live dogs. What would you do if you woke up to find that 99.9% of life on Earth had turned to red dust, and the only who people who survived were screw-ups, mad scientists and introverts? If you’re one of the Belmont sisters, the answer to that question…
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DAC Episode 366: Flatliners (1990)
schrodinger’s live dog/dead lion In recent years, the output of ‘90s-era Joel Schumacher has come in for reappraisal. His commitment to a maximalist aesthetic and gonzo production design now looks like auterist camp in comparison to the washed-out frames of digital filmmaking. Here at the offices...
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DAC Episode 365: Tremors (1990)
eight live dogs. “I’ll tell you. Nobody handles garbage better than we do.” Fun fact: if you listened to one episode of Destroy All Culture per day, then you started listening to this podcast exactly one year ago today! One entire year of our voices, piped into your ears on a daily basis.…
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