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Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall, 100 episodes.

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ep100: Looking back at 99 shows

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ep99: The Vietnam War movie as apologia for empire

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ep98: What is Psychedelic Music? — with guest Robert Ciccone

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ep97: Q & A with Jerry Leibowitz — Professional Animator, Underground Comic Creator, and Graphic Designer

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ep96: 21st century music bio-pic with guest Bill Gucwa

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ep95: How to sell NFT art

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ep94: What is Generation X humor?

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ep93: Adolf Hitler's taste in art

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ep92: Who really painted the first abstract painting?

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ep91: The abstract moment

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ep90: The road to modernism

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ep89: Impressionism is bad photography

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ep88: 2022 Oscar picks

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ep87: The arts & entertainment of Super Bowl 56

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ep86: Wild Cards — part 2 of 2 — Joker (2019)

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ep85: Wild Cards — part 1 of 2 — The King of Comedy (1982)

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ep84: Pop-up Retail, Installation art, Happening, Land art, Virtual reality, Immersive art

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ep83: 2021 recap

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ep82: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

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ep81: Why Broadway Loves Hollywood & Hollywood Hates Broadway

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ep80: Turkeys that are so bad they're good

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ep79: Marcel Duchamp, an introduction

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ep78: Writing Programs vs DIY

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ep77: Favorite horror comedies

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ep76: Why Squid Game is Karl Marx' favorite show

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ep75: Sarah Silverman's Jewface problem

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ep74: Secrets of movie-trailer making! — Chris & Randall interview studio movie-trailer maker Bill Gucwa!

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ep73: Screen adaptations from theater, fiction, and comics

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ep72: Imaginary friendships with celebrities and fictional characters

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ep71: Amusement park obsession

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ep70: Is Hollywood comedy over the hill?

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ep69: Is photography art?

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ep68: Our Mtv Youth

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ep67: "3 Mics" "Nanette" "Inside" — Reinventing The Comedy Special!

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ep66: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

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ep65: The arts and entertainment of jigsaw puzzles

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ep64: The arts and entertainment of pizza

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ep63: The mystery of Boba Fett

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ep62: The arts & entertainment of the Fourth of July

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ep61: Bye Zoom, Hello live show! — The return of indoor and outdoor entertainment

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ep60: Star Trek — "Mirror, Mirror"

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ep59: Robin Williams

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ep58: Rock & Rule (1983) — Blondie, Lou Reed, Cheap Trick, Earth Wind & Fire, Iggy Pop — Animated cult classic

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ep57: TV and movie comedy since 2000 (part 2 of 2)

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ep56: TV and movie comedy since 2000 (part 1 of 2)

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ep55: Richard Jewell in movies and TV

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ep54: Appropriation, collage, deconstruction, remix culture

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ep53: Oscars & Hollywood — A screenwriter's take — With special guest screenwriter Bill Gucwa

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ep52: The rise in popularity of podcasting (and our first anniversary show)

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ep51: Production (Art) Design made 1970s movies special

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ep50: The future in six stories

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ep49: Beeple's NFT art auctions for 69 million dollars

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ep48: Spider-Man vs. Batman (part 2 of 2)

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ep47: Spider-Man vs. Batman (part 1 of 2)

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ep46: Chris talks about his playbill collection

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ep45: "Call me anything, but don't call me late to dinner"

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ep44: Saturday Night Live

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ep43: Critically acclaimed art versus commercially successful art

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ep42: The arts and entertainment of Super Bowl LV

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ep41: Candy as entertainment

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ep40: Unpacking the Bernie Sanders Mittens Meme

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ep39: Favorite childhood toys or the aesthetics of toys

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ep38: What makes some art timeless?

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ep37: Is there art only for rich people?

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ep36: 2020 in review

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ep35: A Christmas Carol (part 2 of 2)

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ep34: A Christmas Carol (part 1 of 2)

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ep33: The joy of live performance

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ep32: Does art influence the public mind? (part 3 of 3, authoritarians and the CIA's art war)

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ep31: Does art influence the public mind? (part 2 of 3, Propaganda and propagandists)

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ep30: Does art influence the public mind? (part 1 of 3, Introduction)

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ep29: Improv on television

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ep28: Are video games art?

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ep27: Liberal Hollywood movies election special

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ep26: Halloween misadventures of our youth and adulthood

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ep25: Why video games?

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ep24: Generation X growing old with radio

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ep23: Growing up with radio

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ep22: Watchmen (movie and miniseries)

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ep21: Watchmen (comic)

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ep20: Chris' latest obsession or Youtube music in the time of COVID-19 plus special surprise

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ep19: Randall hates on J.J. Abrams

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ep18: The genre of Young Adult Fiction

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ep17: Network (1976)

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ep16: Are horror movies inherently right-wing?

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ep15: 1980s comedies - part 3 of 3 - John Hughes and late 80s

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ep14: 1980s comedies - part 2 of 3 - nerd movies

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ep13: 1980s comedies - part 1 of 3 - early 80s

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ep12: Is this the age of the fanboy?

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ep11: Stand up favorites new and old

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ep10: PUNK ROCK revisited

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ep9: Chris rants about New York's portrayal in film & TV

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ep8: PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A STAND UP, or the aesthetics of President Trump

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ep7: PUNK ROCK

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ep6, Modernism vs. Post-Modernism

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ep5, Matthew McConaughey supershow

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ep4, Randall introduces a new genre: Bonkers Sci-Fi

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ep3, Science fiction TV shows we're watching

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ep2: Hipster Hollywood in the 60s

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ep1, Cats (2019) the movie