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Stet
by B.D. McClay
Having good conversations with interesting people.
Episodes
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Metropolitan (Christmas)
Clare and BDM talk Metropolitan, Whit Stillman's 1990 comedy of manners, with special guest John Ganz of Unpopular Front and Unclear and Present Danger. Discussed: Upper East Side childhoods, Whit Stillman and Lena Dunham, and manners.
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Over the Garden Wall (Halloween)
This should have been up much earlier, but it was not! Clare, BDM, and producer Austin talk Patrick McHale's Over the Garden Wall. How is it perfect? Why is it perfect? These and other issues are investigated at length.
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Cat People (Halloween)
When women tell you they're a big cat, believe them…. BDM and Clare talk Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur's 1942 masterpiece Cat People, a movie about how Americans know nothing and psychologists have to die. Also discussed: animal brides. Not discussed: "Cat Person," but Patreon subscribers can...
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Scream (Halloween)
Stet returns! Clare and BDM talk Scream, a movie one likes and the other hates. Discussed topics: Why Death is your boyfriend, how Rose McGowan wuz robbed, how men in Woodsboro can't make normal facial expressions, and the limits of being meta about the stuff you just want to do anyway.
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Incident at Loch Ness (That Escalated Quickly)
BDM and Clare watch Incident at Loch Ness, a Zak Penn/Werner Herzog documentary about the making of a documentary that collided with another documentary. "Tell me, who is real and who is not?" Herzog pleads… but we'll never tell. Then in the second half there is discussion of Olivia Rodrigo, the...
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After Hours (That Escalated Quickly)
Welcome to THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY, a theme dedicated to movies that start in one genre and end in another. Our first movie is After Hours, which begins as a movie about a guy looking for a plaster of paris bagel and cream cheese paperweight and ends… well… as one. BDM and Clare bring on their...
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Wild Mountain Thyme (feat. Dawn Foster)
Special guest Dawn Foster comes on to talk John Patrick Shanley's mystifying 2020 movie, Wild Mountain Thyme. Is it a good movie? No. Is it the best movie where Emily Blunt pretends to be Irish? Maybe. Is it the best movie where Jamie Dornan fails to sound Irish, despite actually being Irish?…
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Whisper of the Heart (Child Marriage)
BDM and Clare talk about Yoshifumi Kondō's Whisper of the Heart (1995). Is this a movie about a boy who is also a magical cat? No, but one of us thinks it is. For full show notes, check out https://www.patreon.com/stetpod
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Paperhouse (Child Marriage)
Clare and BDM talk about Bernard Rose's 1989 film Paperhouse (along with its source material, Catherine Storr's 1964 Marianne Dreams). Is it a horror movie? Is it a children's movie? Do the police need to be called on somebody? Then after the break they dig into Taylor Swift's rerelease and...
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Moonrise Kingdom (Child Marriage)
Clare and BDM take a trip to New Penzance to discuss Wes Anderson's 2012 romantic drama, Moonrise Kingdom. Then they scrutinize a recent piece in Slate making the case for pandemic shaming. Along the way, they fail to pronounce any names correctly. Subscribe to our Patreon to teach us how to…
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Stet Returns!
Stet returns with two hosts—B.D. McClay and Clare Coffey. We discuss the concept for the relaunched pod and welcome you to a new journey.
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Garbage (feat. Becca Rothfeld)
Becca Rothfeld and B.D. McClay talk cleaning, garbage, and book culture—but we repeat ourselves. Music from https://filmmusic.io: Anachronist by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3363-anachronist/ License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Corruption by Kevin...
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Stet, A Podcast (Trailer)
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Having good conversations with interesting people.
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B.D. McClay
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