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Thousand Movie Project — 225 episodes
Ira Madison III On His New Book, "Pure Innocent Fun"
ECar Mold and Freedom and Panic
EThe Letters Project
EFumigator Interview: Manny Sanchez from Truly Nolen
EDelivering Lunches While the Drones Invade
ENick Cannon's Confession
EThe Episode I Didn't Realize Was Set to Private Until a Week Later
ETop 2 Customer Codewords for Showing How Angry They Are
EBurnout, Constructive Feedback, and the 5th Homeless Man I've Seen Masturbate on a Sidewalk
EPOLCAST: A New DNC Chair. Bret Stephens is Annoying.
EThis Man Has an Alien Encounter Every Night
E"I Am the Boss and the King...": A Workplace Mystery
ECyber Monday. Chupacabra. Cashmeousside. Capitalism.
E"Wicked" Books
Eok no more politics.
EHere's How Trump's "Mass Deportation" Thing Falls Apart (In 13 Steps or Less)
ETrump, True Crime, Living with Your Ex
E5 Biggest Risks of Another Trump Term
EElection Day: To Stay Tuned, or Not Stay Tuned
ETrump Won By Exploiting the College Divide
Evoting early, late
EJay Caspian-Kang, Joe Rogan, and the Gen Z Gender Divide
EMy Book CUBAFRUIT Now Available for Pre-Order
EPick Up Your Emptiness and Share It
EThe Small Community That Determines the Election
ENew York Times Exclusive: Jill Stein is Awful
EYes, Mainstream Media is Biased. No, It's Not a Conspiracy.
EQuick Book Review: Jonathan Alter's AMERICAN RECKONING
EHarris the Interviewee Gets Better Every Week
EDodging Politics to Compare Dean Koontz and Stephen King
ESanewashing Trump. Secret Service Has Problems. Aliens on Europa.
ESaturday at the Hospital. Trump Makes Threats. Ross Douthat on One Thing. Jill Lepore on Another.
EHarris Makes A Risky-Brilliant Pledge. Trump Berates Donors.
EThe Polls Are Saying Ignore the Polls. Hurricane Grocery.
ETrump Meets Theo Von: This is "Big Reader Bad Grades"
ETryna Talk About Trump & It Doesn't Work
EBirthday Boy (Vol. 33)
EThis Question Raises Small Talk to Medium Talk
ECuban Superstitions REVEALED
EOne Thing So Beautiful Nobody Wants It
EThe Key to Prioritizing (How My Manager Nearly Died)
EIn Which Clint Eastwood, 94, Has an Affair
EEveryone's Angry About the Eclipse
EMy Neighbor Killed His Wife
EFinished That Clinton Bio...
EAnd You Get a Car
Egrocer gets fired
ENigel Hamilton on Clinton's Sexcapades
ETraining Leon, the Liar
EPeopril Begins!
EI Love "Love Lies Bleeding" and Also Noam Chomsky
EBrian Huntress Listens to Girls
EFive Tips for Negotiating with Terrorists
EGeorge Saunders is a Bookworm: A Tribute to Michael Silverblatt
EA Conversation with Matt Singer about OPPOSABLE THUMBS, His Biography of Siskel & Ebert
EYouTube's Daniel Greene on YouTube's Daniel Greene
EDavid Remnick on David Remnick
EA Father's Bizarre Punishment
EA Healthier Way of Talking
EWhy You Should Never Feel Bad for Calling Out
EYouTubers in Crisis
EWilliam T. Vollmann Talks About His 3,400-page Novel, A TABLE FOR FORTUNE
EStolen Coronas and a Trip to SoBe's Best Bar
EPeople Who Live in Condemned Places
EHe Tried to Blow Up a Miami Beach Neighborhood
EPornHub's 2023 Data Dump: What We Learned
E2 YouTubers Who Scare the Sh*t Out of Me
ECoppola's Billions (and Everyone Else's)
EKid Hero Breaks a 38-year Record
EDon't Say This to the Grocer
EThe Opinion We Hate to Need
ESaul Bellow, Succumbing to Alzheimer's, Became Obsessed with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
ENew Year's Eve
EEarbuds, Ghost Temper, Sontag Sex and Leonard's Exit
EPeter Makes the News
EDo You Know Your Grocery Face?
EDogwalk Lady
EThe Importance of Hating Updike
EInterview with Novelist Tess Gerritsen
EThe Wine Demo
ENonficNov: The Nietzsche Revalation and Charlie Chaplin
ENonfiction November: Intro, John Berger's Big Meal, and the NCE of the KJV of TNT
EThe Shametag
EMack Attack
EFull Moon Haircut
EJames Ellroy's New Boredom in THE ENCHANTERS, and Grocery Store Mindfulness
ECalling Out Sick (Now With a Surprise Ending!)
E"Pumpkin Shit"
E"Lincoln Lawyer" Lifehard
EDay of Study: Long Island Serial Killer & Other Sunday Observations
EJoyce Carol Oates, Thriller Test, and the Painful New Yorker Article
EGroceries to the Top, the Contrarian, "I Hate the Internet!"
EHome Alone, Can't Sleep, Acts of Passion
EDermatology, Ghosts, Aliens
EBestseller Binge
EThe Algorithm & Me | April Diary
EThe Postal Worker I Don't Get Along With | April Diary Five
ESpring Forward | April Diary Four
EBins Diary Three
EBins Diary Two
EBins Diary One
ESteve Donoghue, from Austen to Zuckerberg
EBullseye Job & Thrifter's Woe
ETraumatizing Internet Videos -- Plus Goodreads' Year in Review!
EUnderstanding Gatsby, Part 1: Themes, Symbols, Metaphors, Motifs
E'Twentytwo in Review
EThe Flip: How I Needed a Job, Got One, & Then Immediately Quit
ECUBATOOTH is Cubadone, and Cormac McCarthy's THE PASSENGER
ERiffing Twenties: Presidents
ERiffin Twenties: Al Capone
EThe Seahorse Experiment
ECoffegut Roadjam Witchcraft | Ehpooky Comb. #3
EOn Not Learning Good & HALLOWEEN ENDS | Ehpooky Comb
EEhpooky Combersacion: Night Terrors, Not a Shizu, & BARBARIAN
ERestaurant Detective
EThat New Leonard Cohen Doc & Life Changes
ENovelist Megg Gardiner on HEAT 2
EExeunt.
EStudy Buddy!
EEgo Demon & the Box of Mistakes
EThe Willy Wonka Novocaine Blueberry Burger
EThe Root Canal
ETony Diet Coke
EInterview with Novelist Don Winslow
EPatPod: Ukraine Cormac Cubafruit Failure
ETo Give & Receive
EDay of Study: Kotkin on Ukraine & No New Thoughts on Godfather @ 50
EAndy Rooney Buys Lotto in Little Havana
EBroken Tooth
ENervous Oatesmeal
EDrank Too Much and Sent an Email to the CIA
ECUBAFRUIT is Finished
EReacher Creature Bleacher Reader
ENinja Turtles, Leatherface, Putin
EQuesadillas, Pornography, Abundance
EThe President Does Not Shit in a Bag
EYou Don't Deserve This Discount
EObsessed with Books I Can't Read: Joyce & Danielewski
EBriefcase Cheese & February Bridges
EWherein Louis Menand Does Me a Favor and I Pretend It Never Happened
EA Very "ROCKY" Christmas
E"I Was in Law School for Ten Years"
EThe Interesting Fuckup
EOn Getting Rich & Changing
ERiff: Laundromat Lament
EThe Friendly Criminal & Workplace Perspective
EMidday Dance Number, Learning Disabilities, Cockroaches
EThe PatPod Sample & Spill
EThe Passive-Aggressive Pink Hummus Pita Panic
EGift Card Kindle Physics
EAaron Eckhart's Not That Bad, & Other Dubious Claims
EThe Blind Vigilante, Jacques Derrida, and Escapist Vacations
EMargaret MacMillan Talks About Her Latest Book, "War"
EEhpooky Compersacion! | Halloween KIlls, Part 1 o 2
EA Chat with the Man Who Read Every Marvel Comic: Douglas Wolk
EEhpooky Combersacion! | Scream 5, "Regular" Math, and Fear v. Knowledge
EMansion, She Whispered
EEhpooky Combersacion!
EThe 100th Episode
ESoft Reboot: Stephen King's Confinement, YouTubing, and Lots of Food
EA Talk with Novelist L.R. Dorn: True Crime & Montgomery Clift's Broken Teeth
EDay Of Study: "Telegram!", Art Motivation, the Power Detox
EThursday Server
EDay of Study: Kerry Marshall Makes Art, Dan Pena Eats a Child
EHistorian H.W. Brands talks about His Ronald Reagan Biography, History as a Craft, and Storytelling
EAngstjam: An Intermission
ENovelist Grady Hendrix Talks Slashers, Artistic Growth, and the Daily Grind of Writing
EIt Could Happen to Anyone, Accidentally Eating a Fish, "Living Life to the Fullest"
ECafe Bathroom, Jumpers' Remains, Bill Clinton's Pork Chop Binge & My Week as a Vegan
EA Conversation with Historian Jonathan Alter
ESidenote: The Flower
EThe Michael Jordan Rookie Card, a Lightsaber Replica, and a Flustered Ex-President
EThe July 4th Address
ESidenote: Leaving My Job at Miami-Dade College
EGene Editing, Biden's Bedtime, and the Ballad of Gorgonzola
ELong Island, a Cockroach in the Shower, and a Ramble
EAlex in a Car Getting Coffee
EEating Bread & Turning Thirty with Blair Cassuto
EPizza Story: Part III
EPizza Story: Part II
EPizza Story: Part I
EWorcestershire Radio
ESMALL CHANGE: The Pilot
EManaging My Space, World Enough & Time, Ray Bradbury and an Army of Orphans
EBabies Yelling in Public, Party of One, and DRACULA Commentary Track
ESidenote: Book Update, Excerpt (Don't Start with This One)
EGardens, the Jar-Jar Pitch, and Jack the Ripper
ESeptember 11th, Half-Off vs Buy-One-Get-One, Homeless in Little Havana
EHangover Special: Charlie Potatoes
E"Nobody Told Me," Pynchon Paparazzo, & Pornhub's Data Dump
ELatenight Meth with Shredded Cheese, an Interview with Veza Sur's Head brewer, Rhett Dougherty
EThe Down Syndrome Questions
EMy Therapist and I Bought the Same Vibrator; also, the NYC Hookup
ESteve is Appalled
EWhat it Hinges On
EThe Burden of Bearing Witness, and a Conversation with Steve Donoghue
EReggie's Not So Bad, Guided Meditation, and the News
EBonus Episode: A Quick Conversation with Steve Donoghue
EStrongman's Conundrum, Hannibal Lecter, Pornography and Playing Cards
EWherein the Narrator Celebrates His Birthday
EThe Public Masturbator, Failing Math with Lon Chaney, and Other Things
EMy First Roommate, Ray Bradbury's Penis, and the Career Bartender
EHarold Bloom, Speakea5y, & the Ballad of Mr. Peebles
ETwo Dates that Ended Poorly, "The Demon Kill You," and a Stoned Commentary for ROCKY 4
EThe Guys on the Sidewalk, Teachers' Lives, the Watervendor Does Drugs
EHalloween Special, Part Two: UPN 33, the Old Friend & the Voyeur, Addicted to Dating
EHalloween Special, Part One: Dating, the Unseen Assailant, and a Kafka Thing
EUmberto Eco, a Briefcase Fulla Feces, Sex in a Cardboard Box, and the Mail
EAn Affectionate Streetfight, the Sexorcist, Beard Problems & a Nervous Riff
EHurricane Dorian, Mango's Death, and the Sex That Didn't Happen
EThe Intimate Barber, the Disabled Acquaintance, and Rob Zombie as a Filmmaker
EThe 27-volume Novel I'm Obsessed With, Steve Donoghue, and Tonsillitis
ELarry's Got a Paper, the CHILD'S PLAY Reboot, and Some Riffing
EArahi, the New Guy, and Grace Randolph's Work Ethic
EBride of Frankenstein DVD Commentary
ERachel's Perilous Threesome
EThe Lacan Quote, the Time Norman Mailer Punched Gore Vidal, & a Convo w/ Film Critic Pavel Klein
EA Chat with Film Critic Pavel Klein
EMy Complicated Feelings About Peter, a Sunday Ritual, and the Man I Saw Poop on a Brickell Sidewalk
EOvereating, an Embarrassing Story, and a Study of David Remnick
ESid Haig, My Roommate's Obsession with ENDGAME, Henry Miller & Frijoles
ESecrets
EHellboy Reboot, Med Student Breakup, and Patrick's Kid
EPodcast Reboot
E#20. Book Critic Steve Donoghue on Tarantino, Conspiracy Theories, Shakespeare and Other Stuff
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