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Pod Casty For Me

Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine

Pod Casty For Me: a left politics and culture podcast about the films of Steven Soderbergh (formerly Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader), one movie per episode. Hosted by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. New episodes every other Friday.

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01:53:30

Ep. 18: Sudden Impact (1983) with Dr. Joe Street

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2023/05/05

Go ahead, listen to this episode! We are beyond thrilled to be joined for our discussion of the fourth Dirty Harry film, SUDDEN IMPACT, by the man who literally wrote the book on Dirty Harry: Dr. Joe Street, author of Dirty Harry's America: Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash. From "Make my day" to Santa Cruz history to Reagan's cruel legacy of spending cuts to Sondra Locke's sunglasses, we cover it all on this one, folks. There's even a novelty song and a farfetched theory

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01:51:48

Ep. 17: Honkytonk Man (1982)

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2023/04/28

It wasn't G-d who made HONKYTONK MAN podcasts...it was us! Join us for a conversation about Clint Eastwood's 1982 Depression-set country music road trip drama, careening from Grand Ole Opry history to Oklahoma Land Runs to discussion of whose uncles are the most unwell. It's a foot-stompin' good time. Throw your arms around this freaking episode, why don't you? https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/

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02:51:03

Ep. 16: Firefox (1982)

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2023/04/21

We are writing this episode description directly via thought waves! Also typing! It's the FIREFOX episode, folks, and we're talking all about the 1982 Cold War mind-controlled spyplane thriller some have called "Clint Eastwood's STAR WARS," which is funny to do! Join us for a daring infiltration of the film's real-life inspirations, the particular early-Reagan geopolitical climate in which it was made, and the sundry White House creeps Clint rubbed elbows with at the Kennedy Center premiere. Topics

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01:52:07

Ep. 15: Any Which Way You Can (1980) with Nick Newman

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2023/04/14

Beers to you, dear listener - it's a new episode of the show! Today we're joined by Managing Editor of The Film Stage, Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman), for a movie that's extremely stupid: Buddy Van Horn's Clint-and-Clyde sequel ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN. This one's got all the animal actor rights and Jackson Hole context you could want, plus three adult men politely complimenting each other on their appearance. What are you waiting for? Listen now! Topics include: legacy sequels, going to Europe to dodge

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02:07:17

Ep. 14: Bronco Billy (1980)

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2023/04/07

Gather round, little pards: the BRONCO BILLY episode's in town! Join Ian "Handsy Bill" Rhine and Jake "Steel Arlo" Serwin as they talk Clint Eastwood's 1980 Capraesque neo-western comedy, the history of wild west shows, the famous Scatman Crothers story, and get into an argument about THE FABELMANS, of all things. It's a good one! Topics include: the Romy Mars Tiktok, workplace safety, a new edition of Runny News, which GRANDPA movie is which, Damien Chazelle's BABYLON, production designer Gene

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01:57:11

Ep. 13: Escape From Alcatraz (1979) with Chris Alfonso

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2023/03/31

Uh oh, the episode's good! Sorry, we're trying to remove it. Anyway today we are getting into Clint's final collaboration with Don Siegel, 1979's prison breakout movie ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, and we're joined by activist and Mitigation Specialist for Youth Justice Network, Chris Alfonso! Join us for a discussion of prison life, the nature of punishment, imagining a post-carceral world, and much more. Also Clint is n*de in this movie. This is a special one, folks. https://www.podcastyforme.com/

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02:03:35

Ep. 12: Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

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2023/03/24

Put up your dukes! We're turning EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE this episode to talk about James Fargo's 1978 bare-knuckle boxing hangout road trip orangutan movie, which we both like many parts of while still somehow not really enjoying the film. There's also plenty of San Fernando Valley history, Nazi biker discussion (critical), and Jake tells a story about a moviegoer so rude she sent him spiraling into despair. Give it a listen! Topics include: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, the American Humane

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01:53:12

Ep. 11: The Gauntlet (1977)

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2023/03/17

Lock(e) and load, it's time to run...THE GAUNTLET (1977)! Jake and Ian get to the bottom of Clint Eastwood's shockingly pro-sex-work, anti-cop action comedy road movie and dig deep on Sondra Locke. There's also lots of praise for MIDNIGHT RUN, obviously. Give it a listen! Topics include: SHAFT IN AFRICA, cop corruption scandals, Vinnie Jones, "vital statistics," pig iron, new misogynist phrases, Josh Brolin's stepmother Barbra Streisand, and Frank Gorshin's impressions. Follow Pod Casty For Me:

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02:07:12

Ep. 10: The Enforcer (1976)

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2023/03/10

Actually you're late uploading YOUR podcast! Today we're digging into the third Dirty Harry film, James Fargo's THE ENFORCER. We're talking women in law enforcement, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the occupation of Alcatraz by Native activists, all that stuff. Plus another visit to a certain crime zone... Topics include: fake names, Jake's dad's fondness for Hugo Boss cologne, the film's title, Ian brings up Richard Donner's TIMELINE like that's normal to do, communiqués, "Stockholm Syndrome," THE

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02:15:36

Ep. 9: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) with Eric Markovits

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2023/03/03

We got ourselves a juicy new episode and we're spitting it at your dog! Sorry! We shouldn't do that, it's mean. Anyway time to talk THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES with our friend, labor attorney Eric Markovits (@thechancegiver). We all scrambled to become Civil War scholars in a week to make sense of the politics here, so you're welcome. Settle in for a hell of a ride once we get talking about the guy who wrote the book, too. Enjoy the show! Buzzards gotta listen to podcasts, same as worms! Topics include:

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01:41:59

Ep. 8: The Eiger Sanction (1975) with John Semley

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2023/02/24

Got a mountain-sized episode for ya, folks. Today we're attempting Eastwood's spy thriller THE EIGER SANCTION with writer John Semley (@johnsemley3000) and talking the difficulty of making an American Bond, the deadly injury on the set of this film, and even more George Kennedy appreciation than last week's episode. Listen to it or be sanctioned (just kidding, it's fine)! Topics include: the water in Oaxaca, Jake doesn't know anything about football, scurrying through hatches, some quick and dirty

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02:09:58

Ep. 7: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) with Forrest...

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2023/02/17

Ladies and gentlemen...we got 'im. A guest, that is! Today the lovely and talented Forrest Tiffany (@forresttiffany) joins us to talk Michael Cimino's 1974 road trip bank heist film THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT. We welcome Geoffrey Lewis and George Kennedy to the Pod Casty cast of guys and investigate what this film has to say about American masculinity halfway through the 70s. There is also a quiz at the end. Topics include: the real-life highwaymen who inspired the book that inspired the movie that

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02:05:50

Ep. 6: Magnum Force (1973)

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2023/02/10

A man's got to know his limitations...and that's why we started a podcast! This ep we go deep on Ted Post's 1973 film MAGNUM FORCE, the first sequel to DIRTY HARRY and a fascinating piece of equivocation and reaction-to-the-reaction. We'll also check in with Ian's enemy goose in another edition of Taking A Gander, and Jake has a new segment about Pauline Kael. ACAB, Google LASD Gangs, stay safe out there. Topics include: the 1970s epidemic of skyjacking, US-sponsored death squads in Latin America,

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01:52:53

Ep. 5: Breezy (1973)

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2023/02/03

It's time for us to tackle BREEZY, Clint Eastwood's 1973 romantic dramedy starring William Holden and Kay Lenz and, for the first time in his career, not him! Extremely comfortable ep about an extremely comfortable movie to watch and discuss. We talk about the age gap and age gap movies generally, Eastwood's romantic life in the early seventies, LICORICE PIZZA (and PHANTOM THREAD), and offer our very timely reactions to the Sight & Sound poll along with what we would have put on our ballots had they

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02:22:00

Ep. 4: High Plains Drifter (1973)

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2023/01/27

We're wandering into the pod feed out of thin air to talk HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973), Clint Eastwood's second film as director and still one of his very best. We also recorded this one in person, so, it's, uh, better maybe? Could also be worse. Leave me out of it! [Content heads-up: the film depicts sexual violence and we discuss that in this episode. Something to keep in mind when deciding when and where to listen to it.] Topics include: AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, Jake's special haircut story,

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01:43:10

Ep. 3: Joe Kidd (1972)

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2023/01/20

This week we're talking about the little-remembered 1972 western JOE KIDD, starring Clint Eastwood, directed by John Sturges, and written by Elmore Leonard. We'd never heard of it either, but our viewing of the film led to a great discussion of the real person who inspired the story, the New Mexican land grant activist Reies López Tijerina. Topics include: courtroom appearances, school dances, Tijerina's 1967 armed raid on the courthouse at Tierra Amarilla, the frustrating legacy of misogyny in

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01:53:39

Ep. 2: Dirty Harry (1971)

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2023/01/13

Join us for a discussion of the 1971 Don Siegel police action film Dirty Harry, its left and liberal reception at the time, and its reverberations throughout the rest of Clint Eastwood's career. Sorry we mostly forgot to be funny on this one. ACAB, by the way. Topics include: police brutality, fascist aesthetics, cop movies and copaganda, the meaning(s) of San Francisco as a setting, how we think Eastwood and Siegel feel about the cops, the Hunters Point social uprising of 1966, the Zodiac killer,

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01:57:23

Ep. 1: Play Misty For Me (1971)

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2023/01/06

Our first episode, in which we discuss Clint Eastwood's directorial debut, the 1971 thriller Play Misty For Me, and Jake debuts a special segment. Topics include: Eastwood's early career, collaborators like Don Siegel and cinematographer Bruce Surtees, the film's gender politics, Jessica Walter, whether Carmel-by-the-Sea and Sausalito are actually the same place, and for some reason 9/11. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/

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Ep. 0: Clintroductions

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2023/01/05

This is a quick introduction to Pod Casty For Me, the podcast about Clint Eastwood movies and left politics. Here you will find answers to important questions like: Why are we doing the show? Who are we, the guys who are doing the show? Will you like our, like, whole thing? Do we say cussing? Are we well-informed or at least funny? A good place to start for new listeners! Probably a decent place for those same new listeners to end! Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme

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