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The Juggernaut
by JuggernautPod.com
An interview podcast devoted to the arts. Creating is necessarily walking in the footsteps of giants. So let's walk. Christopher Harris hosts.
Episodes
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Top 10 Movies Of 2025
It's our annual countdown of our favorite movies! We'll spend some time counting down our top 10 films of 2025, while also tackling each other's lists. Ranking art is kind of silly, but if this is a way for you to find some new movies to watch you might not have otherwise heard of, it's worth it!...
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Top 10 Movies Of 2024
It's our annual movie conversation! Cousin Josh joins, and we go back and forth listing our favorite movies from 2024. Don't read any further in these show notes if you prefer to avoid spoilers! Josh's Top 10 Movies Of 2024: 10. The Substance 9. La Chimera 8. Do Not Expect Too Much From The End…
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Top 10 Movies Of 2023
It's our annual tradition! Harris and Cousin Josh will count down their favorite movies of 2023 and talk about why they work (and sometimes why they don't). Maybe you'll enjoy our opinions, or maybe we'll just put a few different movies on your radar screen. Thanks for listening! Josh's Top 10...
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Best Movies Of 2022
Are we the last podcast to do a year-in-review for cinema in 2022? Probably! But that just means you've already forgotten all the films you saw last year. Today, we'll remind you, and hopefully give you some leads on movies from around the world you might've missed.
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Top 10 Movies Of 2019
We have an annual tradition of reviving our beloved Juggernaut podcast to list our favorite movies of the previous year. So let's do it! These are our top films for 2019, counted down in order. Will Harris go artsy? Will Josh go populist? You'll have to listen to this super-sized podcast to find...
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Top 10 Movies Of 2018
Let's count down our favorite movies of 2018 with our traditional guest on such occasions, Josh Fischberg, a.k.a. Cousin Josh from the Harris Football Podcast. We've watched a lot of films -- some even in black-and-white! some even in non-English languages! -- and winnowed our lists. Our hope is...
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Top 10 Movies Of 2017
Our annual tradition of counting down our favorite movies of calendar years continues, with a discussion of the best in cinema from 2017. We're firmly of the opinion that ranking art -- and even giving awards for art -- is stupid, but people like lists! And what's great about shows like this is:...
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TV: Damon Lindelof & Tom Perrotta talk "The Leftovers"
In just three seasons and 28 episodes, "The Leftovers" has taken a place among the great series ever created. Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta discuss grief and the unknown, and how they translated a fringe HBO series about what's left behind after The Rapture into a sci-fi, psychological, spy,...
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Film: "The House On Coco Road" Director Damani Baker
Damani Baker was a little kid when his family got caught up in the U.S. invasion of Grenada. That's a crazy story: Ronald Reagan invading a tiny island nation for flimsy reasons. But that's only part of Damani's documentary, "The House On Coco Road." Damani also digs into his family's history and...
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Josh Larsen: Movies Are Prayers
Our buddy Josh Larsen has a new book entitled "Movies Are Prayers," and it's the jumping-off point for a fun conversation about films that give us "religious experiences." Whether that means a connected feeling to God (if that's something you believe in) or simply an understanding of the world...
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Novelist Joshua Ferris
"Then We Came To The End" is one of the greatest and funniest novels about having your soul crushed at work that's ever been written. Joshua Ferris came by his knowledge of office life legitimately: though he always wanted to be a fiction writer, he spent time in an ad agency, understanding how...
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Music: New Pornographers' Carl Newman
Carl Newman is the beating heart of the New Pornographers, and the New Pornographers are amazing. They've been around since 2000's "Mass Romantic," and seven great records later, they're still going strong. We talk with Carl about how the music industry has changed, the role of the artist in...
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Film: Actor/Director Matt Ross
You know Matt Ross as eccentric billionaire Gavin Belson from "Silicon Valley" and Alby Grant from "Big Love" and many other roles. Now Matt is an acclaimed writer/director, having helmed 2016's excellent "Captain Fantastic," for which lead actor Viggo Mortensen was nominated for a Best Actor...
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Film: "Sleight" Director J.D. Dillard
J.D. Dillard was a Star Wars kid way after the original movies came out, partly because his dad was a Navy pilot and partly because Star Wars was too cool to resist. Now he's directed a sci-fi/superhero mashup movie called "Sleight," and he tells us what it's like to grow up as a black nerd, what...
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Novelist Charles Bock
Charles Bock is a great crafter of sentences and his two novels, "Beautiful Children" and "Alice & Oliver," use his control of language to evoke the kind of compassion and empathy we need more of in our lives. This interview is about dealing with illness and loss, growing up in Las Vegas, finding...
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Novelist Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle is yet another writer who went to Cornell, continuing the "Cornell Mafia" theme of our show. Victor also happens to be a fascinating guy with a great personal story, and his fiction skirts the line between "literature" and "genre" in a way that makes him both popular and profound.…
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TV: Adam Reed of "Archer"
Adam Reed is kind of a genius. Just don't tell him that. We talk with the creator and primary writer of "Archer" about his television-saturated childhood, his shiftless young adulthood, his accidental stardom, and why assholes make great TV characters. "Archer: Dreamland" begins April 5th on FXX....
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TV: "Legion"
Noah Hawley makes "Fargo" for FX, which a lot of people know about. Fewer people know that Hawley also is the man behind the wild, experimental, quasi-superhero show "Legion," which is about to wrap up its first season. Alex McLevy from the AV Club joins today to make the case that "Legion" is…
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TV: "Patriot"
Steve Conrad has been in the screenplay business for as long as he's been an adult, but with "Patriot" he finally got to see a project all the way from conception to execution, and the results are wild and incredible. Season 1 is full of belly laughs -- it features a folk-singing spy who kills...
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Novelist Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour is an artist, a journalist, an Iranian-American and an academic, and that makes her story as relevant and resonant today as it's ever been. She talks about leaving Tehran at age three, her extreme Type-A childhood reaction to the immigrant experience, and what it's like to try...
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Top 10 TV Shows Of The 2010s
You love countdown shows! And we love doing 'em every so often, too! Today, our buddy Todd VanDerWerff from Vox.com rejoins us, and we count down our favorite TV shows that have aired in the 2010s. Where will your favorites finish? Prepare to be amazed and outraged! Notes: Check out Todd's…
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Film: O.J. : Made in America
"O.J. Made In America" is a heavy favorite to win the Best Documentary Feature at the 2017 Oscars. Producer Caroline Waterlow describes her journey to this lofty point, including a love of research and doing the hard jobs that others didn't want to do, and which helped her manage the incredible...
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TV: Search Party
The hardest thing to do in TV is master tone. We've all seen so many shows! We aren't exactly aware the moment a show's tone has failed us, but we do get a sense that things have gotten "less believable," or that the show is "all over the place," or that it "doesn't know what it wants to be."...
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Music: Producer John Congleton
Grammy-winner John Congleton is one of the most sought-after record producers in indie music today, both because he's insanely talented and because he hates being bored. In his own uncompromising career as a rock musician, John pushes buttons and boundaries with a wild mix of rock, jazz, and…
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Top 10 Films Of 2016
We watched a whole lot of movies so you don't have to! Join us in our annual tradition where Chris and Josh count down the Top 10 Films of 2016. Chris' Top 10 Films Of 2016 10. Arrival 9. La La Land 8. 10 Cloverfield Lane 7. Toni Erdmann 6. Louder Than Bombs 5. The Fits 4. American Honey 3....
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Films of Kelly Reichardt
We welcome critic Tina Hassannia to discuss the films of Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt is an uncompromisingly personal and idiosyncratic director whose movies take their time but land like sledgehammers when you least expect it. From "Meek's Cutoff" to "Wendy And Lucy" to 2016's acclaimed "Certain...
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Film: Micheal O'shea is a 20-Year Overnight Success
After 20 years of trying, Michael O'Shea finally is an overnight success: his micro-budget indie horror teen drama, "The Transfiguration," unexpectedly found its way into the Cannes Film Festival. It's Mike's first feature after decades of writing and working countless side jobs, and there's no...
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Music: John Munson of Semisonic
John Munson is in Semisonic, and yes, you do know that one song they had. Yet his music career has spanned many more bands and eras, and he's become one of Minneapolis's most-connected and best-liked musicians. Hearing him spin yarns is a blast, as is his perspective on where the recording…
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Podcasting: Writer Eli Horowitz and Homecoming
Eli Horowitz is more than a writer who distributes his stories in non-traditional packages. Mostly: he's an entertainer seeking to land the occasional philosophical haymaker simply by writing himself out of the wild parameters he sets for himself. Along with Micah Bloomberg, he's also one-half of...
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Novelist Matt Ruff
As a novelist, Matt Ruff skirts the fine line between literary and genre fiction, and his books are always surprising. He's inventive, he's funny, and he's highly moral as a writer: even in his wild, fantastic scenarios, conflicts come down to good/evil schisms that Matt excavates even as he's...
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Podcasting: Micah Bloomberg and Homecoming
Micah Bloomberg was always a writer, but he spent years not showing the results of his labors to anyone, and instead made a living doing sound production. When he finally made a bet on himself, his screenwriting career took off, and now he's at the epicenter of a popular serialized podcast called...
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Bill Childs' Top 10 Songs of 2016
It's impossible to list the best songs from an entire year. But that doesn't stop us from trying! Bill Childs joins as our guest this week, and talks about a new David Bowie tribute album he just co-produced called "Let All The Children Boogie" benefiting the It Gets Better Project. And then we…
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Music: Quiet Company
Quiet Company is our podcast's house band: theirs is the music you hear throughout all our shows. We thought it was about time you hear the story behind the band, so we invited Taylor and Tommy aboard. They're living through the consolidation of the music industry -- where having a ton of fans...
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TV: Watching Atlanta
"Atlanta," Donald Glover's show on FX, snuck up on us. Instead of a one-note, grim'n'gritty look at the world of an up-and-coming rapper, "Atlanta" turned out be an ambitious, weird, complex, funny, strange show more interested in the idiosyncrasies of its characters than making generalizations...
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Film: Watching Clouds of Sils Maria
You've heard Chris mention "Clouds Of Sils Maria" a few times as one of his favorite films in recent years, and maybe you've thought, "Oh, he's just saying that to sound smart." Today's episode should convince you otherwise! This is a great film, and we brought in film critic and professor...
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Music: Open Mike Eagle
Open Mike Eagle is a rapper whose music spans genres and reveals more about himself than almost any musician we know. Generally on the Juggernaut, we talk about art that is fully itself, and that's Open Mike: nothing is a pose, he's painfully self aware, and he's a brilliant writer. When you…
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Novelist and Showrunner Eric Garcia
How does the cultural sausage get made? Eric Garcia knows. Eric is a successful novelist who's pivoted to movies and TV and has been involved in the adaptation of four of his novels. The results have sometimes been terrific and sometimes been frustrating. In this episode, Eric discusses what it's...
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Novelist Christopher Harris (Your host!)
Chris Harris's new novel, "War On Sound," is out, and we thought it would be fun to turn the tables have have *him* for an interview subject. So Chris Walsh joins as temporary host and asks Chris about the new book, his writing in general, and the sources of his creativity and frustration. Please...
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Top 10 Films Of The 2010s
Today Cousin Josh Fischberg joins the Juggernaut and we count down our top 10 favorite movies of the 2010s. How much P.T. Anderson and Coen Brothers made the list? Our goal for this show is to share films that mean a lot to us, that have taught us something about empathy and about what it means…
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Actor Tom Everett Scott
Tom Scott was discovered early in his acting career and cast as the drummer in Tom Hanks's directorial debut, "That Thing You Do." That was 20 years ago, and Tom has been a working actor since. But why? Why is he comfortable in the skins of other selves, and what feeling is he chasing in a...
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Film: Watching The Lobster
The Lobster is a perfect example of the kind of film we'd like to champion: it's unexpected and dystopic and strange, and so it bears the veneer of an "artsy-fartsy" film that's not for everyone. But that's hogwash! If *only* more movies had such a strong and complex point of view about one of…
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Rock Writer Michael Azerrad
Michael Azerrad is one of the great rock journalists of the past 25 years. He wrote dozens of cover stories for Rolling Stone, he's written for SPIN, for the New York Times, and for lots of other esteemed institutions. He also wrote two of the great rock books ever written: "Come As You Are," a...
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Reading Watchmen
"'Watchmen' changed everything." This isn't exactly a revolutionary statement: people have been opining about the significance of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's dystopic superhero graphic novel for 30 years. But the story of Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias didn't just help launch the...
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TV: Watching Mr.Robot
Mr. Robot is the kind of rightly acclaimed television we should be watching. It's a meditation on identity, alienation and storytelling dressed up as a thriller about hackers attacking capitalism. It's smart and beautiful and idiosyncratic in a way that mainstream culture rarely gets. So today,...
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Film: Indie Director James Byrkit Hit It Big
Jim Byrkit put in the hard work of building a Hollywood career from the ground up: he was a commercial storyboard artist for years, a gig he eventually parlayed into a friendship with Gore Verblinski and a major role in the look and feel of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. But his dreams...
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Music: Beyond Fountains Of Wayne
Chris Collingwood was the frontman for one of the great power-pop bands in history, Fountains of Wayne. Of course, even *he* doesn't really know what "power pop" even means, other than being kind of a dismissive description. Now Chris has broken away and taken his music in a new direction with...
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TV: "House" And What Comes After
Garrett Lerner is an honest-to-goodness working TV writer who's worked on one bonafide monster hit -- HOUSE -- and wrote several of that excellent series' most compelling and emotional episodes. Yet Garrett doesn't think he's tapped into all the emotion he has to give in his writing, and he's…
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Film: Adam Kempenaar and Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar is even-keeled and professional in a culture that often rewards snark, and he's made Filmspotting -- which he's hosted for 11 years -- one of the best and most popular movie podcasts in the world. We dive into what makes Filmspotting such an institution, and also crack open Adam's...
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Reading Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was one of the lions of American literature in the 20th century, and Chris Walsh served as his student, friend, mentee and amanuensis for several years late in Bellow's life. What was it like to be so close to someone who produced such amazing works as "The Adventures Of Augie March,"...
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Actor Talia Osteen
Talia Osteen can do just about anything. She was a child actress, she's directed a documentary, she was a Hollywood feature film producer and now she's one-half of a great indie-rock band called The Wellspring. But being good at a wide array of things comes with a cost. Which one should she stick...
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