Episodes
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Rio Poddo #2 - Stagecoach (1939)
RIO PODDO continues with the second of the CORE WESTERNS, which is, of course, John Ford's landmark 1939 film Stagecoach. Really happy to have discussed this one! We talk a lot about it + Ford's outsize influence on the Western genre. Follow Michael here: https://linktr.ee/sharkeyflor CHAPTERS...
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Trade Movies BONUS #10 - Ransomware (2026) with director Odette Aldrich
Was so fun to talk with ODETTE ALDRICH, who made an absolutely INCREDIBLE movie that is hopefully playing near you ASAP. Really excited for people to see this one, I loved it! It is playing at LES CAVES ST SABIN in Paris, France on October 16th at 2300 local time, I am so jealous I don't get to…
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Trade Movies #039 - The Mosquito Coast (1986) and Bigger Than Life (1956) with Tiffchat
DADS GOING CRAZY! This was a fun episode, apologies as always for talking WAY too much because when listening back I was like "DANG I wanted to hear from Tiff more!". She really is excellent and has great writing + videos, follow her her: tiffchat.substack.com tiktok.com/@tiffchat...
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Rio Poddo #1 - Shane (1953)
RIO PODDO is a new series with me and Michael aka Sharkeyflor in which we're gonna go through WESTERNS. Think of it as like a lil miniseries on a specific subgenre. Planning on doing more of these, let us know what you think! Follow Michael here: https://linktr.ee/sharkeyflor Chapters 00:00:00...
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Trade Movies #038 - Another Earth (2011) and Kin-dza-dza! (1986) with bridgeonfilm_
SCI-FI MADNESS!!!! SCI-FI MYSTERY??? SCI-FI SOVIET AND AMERICAN STUFF!!! I am VERY pleased to have my good friend bridgeonfilm_, my ally in the fight against sensitive billionaires and the entire capitalist pigdog class. So we are going to 2011 and 1986 to watch a VERY fun pair of movies. Please...
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Trade Movies BONUS #9 - Disposable Humanity (2026) with director Cameron Mitchell
WHAT AN EP! I say that a lot but seriously folks: this one was intense and so rewarding. Many thanks to Cameron Mitchell for showing me is excellent documentary DISPOSABLE HUMANITY (2026), which is coming out TODAY! Please go support it: The premiere is September 4th at 4pm Eastern:...
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Trade Movies #037 - The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) and Elmer Gantry (1960) with Kristina Reinis
shoutout to all the QUEENS who may or may not have [redacted] their husbands thereby turning them into prophets/leaders/et cetera. We get a rundown of that phenomenon as well as two HIGHLY RELEVANT movies from last year and 1960. Super fun episode, I could listen Kristina talk for hours! Please...
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Trade Movies BONUS #8 - The Highlander Center with Emma Cager Robinson
THE COOLEST THING YET FOR THE POD! Thank you so much to Emma and the crew for hosting me back in February. I loved talking about the documentary, Highlander, the mission, movies, and everything else! Emma will be back on FOR SURE to talk Cyd Charisse, and I can't wait! Topics Highlander Center,...
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Trade Movies #036 - Multiple Maniacs (1970) and Susan Slade (1961) with Magenta Elogy
SPEAK A LIL JOHN WATERS FOR EM MEGAN. We are BACK with returning guest and irl spouse of mine Megan aka Magenta Elogy, who is boldly popping my John Waters cherry as though a giant lobster would: showing up out of nowhere and saying "WE MUST POD ON JOHN WATERS" until I become truly in a mania and...
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Trade Movies #035 - Coherence (2013) and My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) with Rebeca
HELLO HELLO sorry for the DELAY, I have been streaming too much and working on LONGER VIDEOS, so that means I am still trying to BALANCE my WORKLOAD. I don't know why I'm yelling. Basically, I am going to get back to a regular schedule on this. I still have a big backlog! Because eps like this…
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Trade Movies #034 - $POSITIONS (2025) and La Strada (1954) with director Brandon Daley
GO SEE $POSITIONS, SERIOUSLY! Feel free to listen to the pod first, it's spoiler-free, but please go see this movie. It's really great, and Brandon is super exciting new talent. Longtime Trade Movies heads will know that I am constantly wishing we had people doing more varieties of movies, and…
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Trade Movies #033 - A Knight's Tale (2001) and The Devil's Bride (1974) with Megan McKelli
ISEKAI MADNESS with MEGAN MCKELLI, actress/content creator/cosplayer/online person extraordinaire. This was a super fun one. I've been meaning to watch A Knight's Tale again since I was a kid, and it gave me a chance to make a truly insane pick in The Devil's Bride, which is absolutely worth...
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Trade Movies BONUS #7 - Interview with author Jared Sullivan about the Kingston Coal Ash Spill
a DREAM. Thank you so much to Jared for appearing on the podcast to discuss his book. I CANNOT recommend it enough, even if you just like a legal thriller, he's such a great writer, but this is genuinely one of the most important and underknown stories of the 21st century...because coal ash is...
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Trade Movies #032 - Pandora's Box (1929), Something Wild (1986), and Star 80 (1983) with Isabel
SPECIAL TRI-EPISODE WHATTTTT???? Yes, so, Isabel is a fantastically knowledgeable Louise Brooks gal, so I wanted to have her on to discuss Pandora's Box and Louise Brooks in general. And I picked Something Wild to go along with it, since I knew one of the characters was big into Brooks, too. BUT...
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Trade Movies BONUS #6 - MuseumCast with Scott Winterrowd at the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth
we're trying something NEW HERE, folks! I flapped my wings and flew out to Fort Worth, Texas to visit Scott Winterrowd at the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth, Texas to do a MUSEUMCAST. I don't know what actually to call it, but think of it as a tour of some really cool stuff through a very…
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Trade Movies #031 - Bad Boys II (2003) and Independence Day (1996) with Pat Buetow (nomdecoom)
oh my GOODNESS I'VE BEEN WAITING TO PUT THIS ONE OUT FOR SO LONG!!! One of the funniest and most exciting episodes I've ever done. I'm so glad I got to meet and make friends with Pat, he's so incredibly funny and I am totally convinced about Bad Boys II now. Such an incredibly fun one!! Find Pat...
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Trade Movies #030 - My Left Foot (1989) and Freaks (1930) with comedian Lucas Waterfill
MUCH FUN with my main man Lucas Waterfill discussing two all-timers. Absolutely loved My Left Foot, and loved Freaks since the first time I saw it, so I was real happy to do this ep! Lucas is doing standup at: GO BANANAS, Cincinnati, OH, March 19-21 HELIUM, Indianapolis, IN, April 2-4 Be sure to...
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Trade Movies #029 - Skibidi Toilet (2023) and Playtime (1967) with Aidan Walker
oh my GOODNESS this episode is GREAT!!! I feel like the show has been building towards an hour and a half discussion of Skibidi Toilet and Playtime with arguably the world's biggest Skibidi expert, and (Louie Anderson voice) I LOVE it! Seriously, this was so much fun. I feel like I talked too…
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Trade Movies #028 - The Lynchburg Story (1994) and You Got To Move (1985)
ARGUABLY MY FAVORITE EPISODE I'VE DONE SO FAR?? This one was so unbelievably fun and fulfilling. Chloe is such an incredible speaker and communicator on Appalachian issues. She has a perspective that I've almost never heard in popular media, both as a native Appalachian and an early childhood...
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Trade Movies BONUS #5 - Interview with Matt Ellis on his new "France in the 1960s" online course
In which we discuss "Citizen Langlois" (1995) and "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" (1992). Matt Ellis is a writer/academic/musician from Portland, Oregon. He has a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and studies media, culture, and history from the left. He is teaching a class on...
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Trade Movies #027 - Stalag 17 (1953) and Die Hard 2 (1990) with Emma
EMMA GETS THE FIRST CHALLENGE COIN as our first two-time guest! This was supposed to be a Christmas episode, as you can probably guess by my hat...but things came up and I wasn't able to get it out in time. HOWEVER, we spend most of the ep talking about like a million old movies. She has seen…
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Trade Movies #026 - It's a Wonderful Life (1946) & Trapped in Paradise (1996) with actor Bianca Castronovo
IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME BABY! And what better way to kick off a couple of Christmas episodes than with my FAVORITE Christmas movie, Trapped in Paradise, and the BEST Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life. Go find Bianca here: https://www.biancacastronovo.com https://www.tiktok.com/@thebiancac...
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Trade Movies #025 - The Philadelphia Story (1940) and Sylvia Scarlett (1935) with Marza Whatever
IT'S HEPBURN TIME with actor/singer/content creator/essayist MARZA WHATEVER. LOVED THIS EP and love her content! She's one of the very best video essayists working today, so PLEASE go check out her stuff! You can find all of her stuff at: linktr.ee/marzawhatever...
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Trade Movies #024 - Hypernormalisation (2016) & The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) with David Backer
OPACITY. OPACITY. OPACITY. (Steve Ballmer voice) OPACITY. Today we are talking complicated financial instruments, the Fundamental Unknowableness Of Things, Mamdani, complexity, propaganda, and so much more. INCREDIBLY thankful to David for appearing on the show, PLEASE GO BUY HIS BOOK: As Public…
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Trade Movies #023 - Undercurrent (1946) & Night and the City (1950) with noir expert Stephanie Edd
loved this ep! I could listen to Stephanie talk noir, Marxism, class consciousness, et cetera for hours! Was also fun arguing about Leave Her To Heaven and hearing about all the noir stuff she's involved in, which you can find at: https://stephanieedd.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@stephanieedd...
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Interview with Matthew Ellis about his new Weimar Cinema class on CineJourneys
Matt Ellis is a writer/academic/musician from Portland, Oregon. He has a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and studies media, culture, and history from the left. He is teaching a class on Weimar Cinema: Images Before Fascism on CineJourneys from November 11th to December 9th....
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Trade Movies #022 - Dracula (1931) and Dracula (1931) with Lugosi Theatre
BOBBY, a.k.a. LUGOSI THEATRE is the World's Biggest Dracula Fan. This was such a fun interview!! I could listen to him talk for hours about Dracula and his experience with autism. He has probably my favorite accounts on social media, so you should DEFINITELY go follow him here:...
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Interview with stop-motion filmmaker and author Mari Robeson on her new short The Mystery of Eve
Mari Robeson is an author and filmmaker that has a new short coming out call THE MYSTERY OF EVE on October 31st at 9:11 Pacific, which is a stop-motion animation film that is a prelude to her upcoming fairytale novel called ALCHEMY, releasing on November 11th. You can find her at:...
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Trade Movies #021 - Mr. Turner (2014) & The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) with Emma
EMMA K is the host of the Reformed Rakes podcast, and this was a hoot!! She is incredibly smart. I was dying laughing listening back to the episode of her saying something very smart for 20 minutes and then me being like "heh". Super duper fun!! Also very good movies. I'm being serious out there...
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Trade Movies #020 - To Be or Not to Be (1942) and Trouble in Paradise (1932) with director/showrunner/writer/actress Claudia Lonow
SUCH A FUN ONE!! Claudia is an amazing guest who has clearly worked with a lot better interviewers than me. She was very nice in guiding me back to actually doing an interview instead of just yammering myself (which of course I tend to do). ALL THE INFO about HER NEW FILM called DEAD can be found...
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Interview with Tad Griffith, legendary trick rider and stuntman for The Mask of Zorro (1998)
THIS WAS SO FUN!!! A DREAM COME TRUE! The Mask of Zorro is one of my VERY all-time favorite movies, so getting to talk to the guy who does, in my opinion, the COOLEST horse stunt in any movie...incredible. I can't thank Tad Griffith enough for taking the time to talk to me today. His bio is...
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Trade Movies #019 - Auntie Mame (1958) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
MONICA LAWRENCE is my guest this week, a documentary filmmaker, writer, director, Zuni tribe member, former professional belly dancer, and who led 114 VESPA SCOOTERS in a rally! Very happy to have Monica on! You can find her here: https://www.tiktok.com/@devonself1 Chapters 00:00:00 Breaking...
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Trade Movies #018 - The Snake Pit (1948) and My Cousin Rachel (1952) with Wilhemina
SORRY FOR THE SLIGHTLY late episode. We are moving to an every-two-week cadence because I have PROJECTS THAT MAY BE EXCITING TO YOU coming soon!! I also might pair this with a whole Olivia de Havilland week on my channels! This was such a fun ep, Wilhelmina is a OdH expert and I'm grateful to…
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Trade Movies #017 - Meek's Cutoff (2010) and The Hanging Tree (1959)
Jenna and I go NUTS for some Westerns. very thankful for her to pick Kelly Reichardt's excellent "Meek's Cutoff" (2010), which was tremendous and one of the best shot modern things that I've seen in ages. And to give me an excuse to watch "The Hanging Tree" (1959) by the absolute boy Delmer…
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Trade Movies #016 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Warlock (1959) with social media manager Megan
TWO CLASSIC GAY ICONS IN THE DESERT. tbh, this is a shorter ep--most of the ep is me and Megan just kinda loving how gay and great these two movies are. which I loved doing. We also talk capitalism lol. and her social media managering. Fun ep!! Megan can be found:...
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Trade Movies #015 - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) and The Sea Hawk (1940) with TTRPG DM Millie Odegard
MY MIC MESSED UP THE FIRST HALF AGAIN I'M SORRY. i THINK this is the last episode I did this lol. anyway, thanks to MILLIE ODEGARD for joining and showing me the fantastic PIBTLW. i am now a huge fan. We go SWASHBUCKLING with a couple of great movies, super super enjoyed this one. You can find...
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Trade Movies #014 - 35 Shots of Rum (2008) and Duel (1971) with Michael/sharkeyflor
VERY EXCITED to have my pal Michael a.k.a. sharkeyflor a.k.a. sharkeyfilm on to discuss 35 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis and Duel by Steven Spielberg. Michael had never seen a Spielberg, so I was happy to show him the one that I think is utterly Steven. And I was super glad he got to introduce me…
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Trade Movies #013 - But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) and Calamity Jane (1953) with Liezyboy
FOUR HOUR POD! honestly we coulda gone 6, Liezy is really great at this. Such a super fun ep, hope you enjoy the real long style ep. I sure did! Also my mic doesn't screw up on this one so that's cool. Find Liezy here: https://www.tiktok.com/@liezyboy and support the Ramadan family here:...
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Trade Movies #012 - Fool's Fire (1992) and Invention for Destruction (1958) with musician Elisabeth Waters
WEIRD AND QUIRKY PUPPETRY AND ANIMATION AND PRODUCTION DESIGN! with musician Elisabeth Waters, who is EXCELLENT. her album "While You're Somewhere Else" is seriously GREAT, so go check that out at: https://linktr.ee/elisabethwaters https://www.elisabethwatersmusic.com/ and of course follow all…
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Special interview with costume historians Larry McQueen and Coleen Scott (Trade Movies BONUS #001)
A very special interview with Larry McQueen and Coleen Scott, authors of the new book: "The Costumes of Hollywood: Highlights from The Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design", out June 6th, 2025, available for pre-order RIGHT NOW:...
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Trade Movies #011 - American Psycho (2000) and Blue Steel (1990) with game historian Harley Q
we're going with FASCINATING EXPLORATIONS OF GENDER/MASCULINITY/FEMININITY that bookended the 90s with Mary Harron's American Psycho and Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel. super fun ep! Find Harley here: linktr.ee/harleyqsplaytime https://www.youtube.com/@HarleyQsPlaytime...
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#010 - Morgiana (1972) and Written on the Wind (1956) with comedian Molly McLean
come join me and Molly McLean, who is a comedian/clown/internet person who you've probably seen on TikTok to discuss two IDENTITY THEMED movies. also Molly eats oatmeal. She will be playing shows in PORTLAND, OREGON and LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA probably near you soon! Keep up to date here:...
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#009 - Secretary (2002) and Crash (1996) with sex educator Cate Osborn, a.k.a. Catieosaurus
WOW this episode is WILD. CONTENT WARNING on this--nothing visual, but the episode has all kinds of talk of sex, kink, neurodivergence, etc etc etc. But, if you are interested in that stuff, this is a FASCINATING EPISODE! so so SO much fun. Find her and her upcoming book at:...
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#008 - RoboCop (1987) and Predator 2 (1990) with film journalist Jo Light
HOWDY PARDNERS fun ep today! I'm talk to Jo Light, who is a screenwriter, journalist, recovering Hollywood script reader, and writer for Final Draft and No Film School. She has interviewed folks from all over the movie industry including Kristin Chenoweth, director Jared Hess, James Mangold…
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#007 - The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) and The Razor's Edge (1946) with Rebecca Botter
literally can barely write because the chapters are so long, SO FUN, 6 HOURS, WOW WTF, INCREDIBLE, Rebecca Botter is at: tiktok.com/@botterrebecca youtube.com/@Rebeccabotter instagram.com/lonelygirlspodcast/ one of the funnest things I've done since starting all of this, v thankful to Rebecca…
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#006 - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) & The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) with fantasy author Carl R. Jennings
HELLOOOO! for Episode 6, I am joined by Carl R. Jennings, author of the upcoming The Ninety Day King (out April 18th, 2025), Just About Anyone, The Witch Doctor, and more, to talk The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) & The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939). SUPER FUN ep. You can find all of Carl's...
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#005 - Anna Karenina (2012) & Anna Karenina (1935) with Dear_idiot_reader
HELLO FROM THE TOLSTOY BOYS. for Episode 5, I am joined by Dear_idiot_reader, aka Gabe, who has a fantastic TikTok channel where he reviews books + a podcast called Mixed: Tapes, Feelings, and Drinks, to talk Anna Karenina (2012), by Joe Wright, and Anna Karenina (1935) by Clarence Brown. SUPER…
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#004 - All the Pretty Horses (2000) and The Wild Bunch (1969) with Kim Trevathan
HALLOOOOO for this ep, I'm joined by my Professor Emeritus of Maryville College Kim Trevathan, who was my thesis advisor for undergrad and taught me Journalism + Creative Nonfiction. Was a lot of fun catching up, we're definitely going to do another episode I hope! You can find Kim's books here:...
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#003 - Synecdoche, New York (2008) and All That Jazz (1979) with Hot Lettuce
hello hello hello. For Episode 3, I'm joined by new friend Dominic, aka Hot Lettuce, cybergrind musician extraordinaire. SO FUN. This is a hefty episode with lots of fun topics. I hope you enjoy!! Some things we go into: Cybergrind, DIY music, Synecdoche New York, All That Jazz, health anxiety,...
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#002 - Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Hana-bi (1997) with Tyler Poffenberger
howdy FRIENDS again. For Episode 2, I'm joined by my bud Tyler Poffenberger to watch Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Hana-bi (1997). Very fun episode. I will have to release a Too Hot For TV version with some of the stuff we had to cut out at some point. Feedback always appreciated. You can reach me:...