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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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02:06:49

Schrader Ep. 1: The Yakuza (1975)

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2024/03/08

The time has come, listeners, to discuss the films of Paul Schrader. That's right: Pauld Casty For Me has arrived, and this is the first episode. Of a new series about Paul Schrader movies. Basically imagine how the Clint Eastwood episodes went, roughly, but just replace all the specifics with Paul Schrader stuff. It'll make sense once you start listening. To kick things off, we're digging into Schrader's first produced screenplay, the 1975 Sydney Pollack neo-noir-yakuza picture THE YAKUZA,

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01:20:34

Ep. 56: Clintclusions

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2024/02/16

We've run out of Clint Eastwood movies that fit our weird criteria, and now we're gonna talk about what we've learned from this whole endeavor. Where we are on Clint, on the auteur theory, on thinking about film, on thinking about political art, on each other, on the prospect of ever doing anything - it's all here for your inspection, dear listener. Oh and also we reveal what we're doing next! We're very excited about it and we hope you will be, too. Here's a hint: I'm going to start reading the

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01:54:31

Ep. 55: Cry Macho (2021) with Will Sloan

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2024/02/10

Here we are, folks - the end of Clint Eastwood's filmography to date. We've unlocked all the legendary weapons and retailer-exclusive armor sets and are ready to do battle with the final boss of Pod Casty For Me: writer and podcaster Will Sloan! Will joins us for a relaxed and agreeable discussion of Eastwood's relaxed and agreeable 2021 neo-Western CRY MACHO and some thoughts on the man's long career, his always-evolving relationship to images of masculinity, his love of animals, and his

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02:27:47

Ep. 54: Richard Jewell (2019) with Hit Factory

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2024/02/03

You, dear listener, will know his name...and the truth. That's right, we're going long as hell on Clint's 2019 A.C.A.B. masterpiece RICHARD JEWELL with our biological parents, Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory!! Join us for a thorough investigation of Eastwood's evolving relationship to images of masculinity, the film's treatment of the Kathy Scruggs character, #NOlympics, and the wonderful performances of Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, and Sam Rockwell. Special movie, special episode! Never talk

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02:19:02

Ep. 53: The Mule (2018)

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2024/01/26

Hop in the Lincoln Mark LT, listeners, we've got a duffel bag full of conversation about THE MULE! Join us for a long-haul chat about Clint's 2018 old-man-drug-trafficker drama about shitty fathers and late capitalism. Spoiler for what we thought of the movie: we both loved it! We talk drug war cinema, the film as a sort of GRAN TORINO REDUX, the film as Alison Eastwood's personal 15:17 TO PARIS, Sondra Locke's death just before its release, and lots more. Hee-haw, folks! (Actually I looked up a

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01:51:26

Ep. 52: The 15:17 To Paris (2018) with John Semley

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2024/01/19

Life has been catapulting us toward this moment...the episode where we lose our minds singing the praises of THE 15:17 TO PARIS with returning guest, writer and Slow Learners Podcast host John Semley! Join us for several hours of exaltant analysis of Clint Eastwood's 2018 avant garde docudrama, starring the real guys who really tackled a heavily armed shirtless man on a train. We really get into it here, folks: millennial masculinity amid the bleak futurelessness in which we've all spent most of our

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01:27:54

Ep. 51: Sully (2016) with Nick Newman

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2024/01/12

Brace for impact, listeners! Returning guest Nick Newman of The Film Stage joins us for a white-knuckle journey through Clint Eastwood's 2016 chronicle of real-life heroism and not-so-real-life stifling bureaucracy, SULLY. We talk about the film's relationship to real events, the oddness of turning this particular story into a movie, and Nick unlocks something huge about late Clint for us. Great ep, and we even kept it under the film's running time! Listen or you're an NTSB stooge! Topics include:

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01:49:20

Ep. 50: American Sniper (2014)

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2024/01/05

This is a big one, folks: for our 50th episode (arguably), we're taking aim at Clint Eastwood's monster hit military biopic AMERICAN SNIPER. Is this an anti-war film, as Clint claims? Is it a glorification of military power? Is it either? Why does Chris Kyle's hat say "Charlie" on it? What is Bradley Cooper's whole deal? For real, though, we get into a lot of pretty heavy stuff on this one, and we're extremely smart about it. They say we're the deadliest minds-men in podcast history, with over 200

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01:59:35

Holiday Bonus: The Chair Speech (2012)

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2023/12/29

Here's a little gift for you all this holiday season: we're going deep on Clint's infamous impromptu speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention where he talked to an invisible Barack Obama in a chair. Plus a bunch of our usual bullshit! Enjoy and see you in 2024! https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

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02:09:31

Ep. 49: Jersey Boys (2014) with Marie Bardi-Salinas

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2023/12/22

Oh, what an ep! We're singing in beautiful harmony about Clint's 2014 Broadway adaptation JERSEY BOYS with returning guest Marie Bardi-Salinas (now with extra last name)! Join us as we talk directly to the camera about jukebox musicals, New Jersey's cultural dominance in the 2000s, falsetto masculinity, and why exactly Clint was the one to make this movie. Plus, Ian gets mad at Jake for liking this movie despite claiming that he doesn't like musicals only for Marie to mostly talk him out of liking

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01:46:36

Ep. 48: Trouble With The Curve (2012) with Chadd Harbold

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2023/12/15

Take me out to the freaking podcast! It's time for us to talk Clint Eastwood's final (to date) film acting for another director, Robert Lorenz's 2012 father-daughter baseball dramedy TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. And who better to join us than producer-director, former aspiring pro baseballer, and returning guest Chadd Harbold? We discuss who exactly directed this thing, peak Amy Adams, the demon Justin Timberlake, sabermetrics, and more. Lousy movie, great ep. Check it out! Topics include: screenplay

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02:04:11

Ep. 47: J. Edgar (2011)

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2023/12/08

Who better to cover a film about unrequited homoerotic lust so powerful it maybe destroyed US civil liberties forever than your two favorite co-hosts of Pod Casty For Me? That's right, it's just us guys this week covering J. EDGAR, Clint's 2011 biopic of FBI Director and anticommunist monster J. Edgar Hoover! We're going deep on this one, talking FBI history, gerontocracy, the film's depiction of Hoover's mysterious personal life, the prosthetics, how we think Clint feels about all this, and a lot

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01:59:03

Ep. 46: Hereafter (2010) with Jordan Fish and Ray...

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2023/12/01

Hold on to your hats, folks - we're talking Clint's 2010 near-death experience drama HEREAFTER with filmmakers and To The White Sea podcast hosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! It's a wide-ranging chat about hyperlink cinema, visual effects, Matt Damon, and how we all fell for this sort of corny movie a lot more than we meant to. Plus, Jake has a big brain read about capitalist realism and Ray surprises us with a revelation about his friend Doug. Great ep, check it out or we'll haunt you! Topics

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01:45:43

Ep. 45: Invictus (2009) with Ian Green

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2023/11/24

I am the captain of my freaking PODCAST, more like! This week we're talking Clint Eastwood's 2009 true-story South African rugby drama INVICTUS, and Jake's other friend Ian - Ian Green - is joining the scrum! You might call this episode "IANVICTUS" if you weren't concerned about SEO or whatever!!! We're talking accents, sports movies, Nelson Mandela's legacy, the bad music, whether Clint really wanted to make this movie, and more. Plus, a quiz segment that goes perfectly, no issues at all with the

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02:03:52

Ep. 44: Gran Torino (2008) with Andrew Ti

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2023/11/17

Fasten your seatbelts, listeners: we're taking Clint's 2008 hit GRAN TORINO for a spin with racism expert (and native Michigander) Andrew Ti! This is a loaded one, gang: we talk about the film's lingering effect on the Hmong diaspora community, if it could have been made about any ethnic minority, whether the many slurs are intended to be funny, fatherly advice, and we try to sell Andrew on Clint's many other, better films. Plus there's a lot of Ann Arbor talk because Jake's dad is from there too

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01:51:31

Ep. 43: Changeling (2008) with Bilge Ebiri

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2023/11/10

Get ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memories of Clint (and of Peter Medak's THE CHANGELING), this is a real corker of a chat! Excited to share it

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01:54:06

Ep. 42: Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) with Comrade Yui

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2023/11/03

Take this down, listeners - we're talking the second half of Clint Eastwood's 2006 WWII diptych, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and we're joined by writer and filmmaker Comrade Yui! We're talking Ken Watanabe, connections to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, both films' perspectives on propaganda, and Jake and Yui pressure Ian to acknowledge Clint's GOAThood. Check it out! Topics include: THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA, much of the film's cast appearing in Takeshi Kitano's KUBI, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's take on the film, the bushido

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01:55:16

Ep. 41: Flags of Our Fathers (2006) with Glenn Heath,...

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2023/10/27

Say cheese, listeners: this week we're taking a look at FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, the first part of Clint's 2006 diptych about the Battle of Iwo Jima, and we're joined by writer, lecturer, and Pacific Arts Movement Managing Director Glenn Heath, Jr.! We talk WWII cinema, shout out our favorite little guys in the cast, publicity machines, look ahead to LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and say the word "simulacrum" even more than usual. Great ep, check it out! Topics include: Steven Spielberg, beach-taking on film,

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01:47:15

Ep. 40: Million Dollar Baby (2004) with Jarrod Murray

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2023/10/20

Get in the ring, listeners! We're going toe-to-toe with MILLION DOLLAR BABY, Clint Eastwood's 2004 Best Picture winning boxing drama, and we're joined by producer and Hollywood big-wig Jarrod Murray! It's all here, baby: race and class in boxing and the boxing film, the response from voices for disability rights, Hilary Swank's career since her Oscar, the whole Paul Haggis thing, Irish terms of endearment, whatever Jay Baruchel is doing. Listen to this one or we won't tell you how they get the ice

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01:41:03

Ep. 39: Mystic River (2003) with Jamie Loftus

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2023/10/13

Climb aboard this relaxing cruise down the MYSTIC RIVER (2003) - jk this movie is actually a huge bummer but we have a wonderful time talking about it with New York Times bestselling author Jamie Loftus!!! We talk the mid-aughts trend of Boston crime downers, what this film has to say about the patriarchy, and we all weigh in on Sean Penn. Plus vampires. Topics include: actors doing Boston accents, Laura Linney as Lady MacBeth, the BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY tie-in fragrance Jamie discovered,

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