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The H&H Podcast

Richard Hanania

Connected to the Richard Hanania Substack. Discussions with Chris Nicholson on war, Rob Henderson on movies, TV shows, and culture, and more. www.richardhanania.com

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103:36

Vince Gilligan Interviews as the Word of God

The H&H Podcast ·

2026/01/08

Chris Nicholson joins me to talk about Season 1 of Pluribus. This is a completely different conversation than the one I just had with Rob. Chris keeps pointing out, and I agree with him, that the show is probably not going to go that deep philosophically or in terms of the origins of the virus. He mentions his “oh no” moment when Vince Gilligan noted to the interviewer he was talking to that the drones were happy. Are we just getting the most basic thought experiment from intro to philosophy? Is the

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19:28

The Righteous Mestizo

The H&H Podcast ·

2026/01/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comI’ve done two previous podcasts on Pluribus: one with Rob Henderson, and one with Chris Nicholson. I didn’t want to choose between them for discussing the end of the season, so I decided to do an episode with each. I’m releasing Rob today, and Chris will be later this week. As you will see, these are vastly different conversations, and I think many will enjoy the contrast. In this discussion, Rob brings up a good

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31:51

The Kim Wexler Theory

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2025/12/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comChris Nicholson returns after almost two years to discuss Pluribus, up to episode six.He raises some good questions about the direction of the show. Chris says that thus far, it is mostly a character study of Carol, and he has no reason to care about her yet. I say fair enough, but the reason that most of us began watching the show is the involvement of Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn. We compare Pluribus to Breaking

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15:39

On Being Possessed by the Antihero

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2025/12/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comTyler Tone joins me to discuss There Will Be Blood (2007), as part of my Paul Thomas Anderson series, which has thus far included One Battle After Another (2025) and Boogie Nights (1997).I absolutely loved this film. Daniel Plainview was one of those characters who become incorporated into my psyche for a substantial period of time, like Don Draper or Tony Soprano. I open by discussing how Plainview’s relationship

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29:33

Should You Become a Pod Person?

The H&H Podcast ·

2025/11/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me to discuss the first three episodes of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus, which is now on Apple TV.I started watching because I trust Gilligan based on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul both being among my favorite shows. The fact that he brings Rhea Seehorn along as the lead actress added to the appeal.If you haven’t watched it yet, you can go ahead and start now since we’ll be following along with the series

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12:51

The End of Nostalgia?

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2025/11/04

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comFresh off watching One Battle After Another, I did a livestream review of Boogie Nights with Tyler Tone as part of a series on Paul Thomas Anderson films. We begin with a discussion about the movie playing to nostalgia. This was a film made in 1997 set in the 1970s and 1980s. It is impossible to imagine us today having the same feelings looking back at the aughts. I wonder whether this is similar to economic growth

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13:48

Woke, Pre-Woke, or Post-Woke?

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2025/10/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comLily Zuckerman joins me again to discuss the new Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another. The movie consciously goes out of its way to separate itself from circa-2020 era wokeness. Lily calls it representative of Chapo Trap House liberalism.I enjoyed Lockjaw as an amalgamation of rightoid characters. He’s in the military, and also a Nazi, and an incel. I point out that another way that this movie is not

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25:11

Leo Strauss Watching Hitler in Modern Germany

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2025/09/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob Henderson joins me to talk about Look Who’s Back (2015) (watch on YouTube), a German film with the premise that Hitler returns to life and becomes a successful entertainer. We talk about the over-the-top antifascist messaging of the movie, as on the surface we see Germans indulging their racism, and (spoiler) at the end a Hitler voiceover as we’re shown the activities of modern day rightists.Yet we can’t help but

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21:20

Default Scripts and Dating as a Checklist

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2025/09/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comLily Zuckerman is a student at UATX. She suggested we watch Materialists (2025), in which a high-end matchmaker named Lucy Mason (Dakota Jackson) goes around setting people up while also being involved in a love triangle of her own. I think this film perfectly encapsulates the post-MeToo era. Sure, there’s still a sexual assault storyline, etc. But it seems that after the crazy 2010s and early 2020s, men and women

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20:00

The Challenge of Portraying Sex Work Positively

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2025/08/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comAnora (2024) was hailed by critics as a movie about the empowering nature of sex work (spoilers below and in the episode). Rob Henderson and Tyler Tone join me to discuss. We just don’t see it. This seems to be one of those films where there’s a politically correct interpretation that is divorced from the actual content of the movie. That conclusion seems inevitable from the last scene, in which Ani has sex with Igor

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89:37

Coffee, Cherry Pie, and the Nostalgia Trap

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2025/08/10

Twin Peaks originally ran for two seasons on ABC from 1990 to 1991. A running joke on the show was that FBI agent Dale Cooper, the protagonist, really liked coffee and cherry pie. He was always complimenting establishments on their coffee and cherry pie, while recommending them to other people. To an audience in the early 1990s, this must have been very funny. But the humor of a guy really liking coffee was lost on me watching in 2025.In the 2017 remake of Twin Peaks on Showtime (spoilers beginning

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27:30

Learning to Embrace Progress and Overcome Guilt

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2025/04/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me to talk about the last two episodes of Season 3 of The White Lotus. Overall, I found the ending mostly satisfying. But the plot holes. There were so many! Among them (spoilers below):* Tim assuming that his family would be permanently poor* Tim acting like a lost doofus unable to handle any pressure throughout the show* Belinda getting a $5 million transfer into her bank account that quickly, without

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25:32

Autogynephilia with Buddhist Characteristics

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2025/03/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob Henderson joins me to discuss The White Lotus, Season 3, up to episode six. There are spoilers in this conversation, as well as the rest of these show notes.We start out by discussing the latest in the Ratliff family incest dynamics. Sophie called it last month. She was right and I was wrong. We spend quite a lot of time on the extent to which Lochy manipulated his brother into what happened, and how intentional

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27:12

The Two Faces of 리사

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2025/03/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me this week to talk about the first four episodes of Season 3 of The White Lotus. We start off by discussing the Ratliff family and whether the incest dynamics are actually there or that was kind of a head fake at the beginning of the season. Other topics addressed are whether Mook is too perfect, the relatively positive portrayal of age gap relationships, toxic female relationships, the horrors of aging,

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64:08

"Chadcels" and Incest Dynamics | The White Lotus, S3:...

The H&H Podcast ·

2025/02/24

I’m joined by my new friend “PhiloSophie” (Substack, X) to discuss the first two episodes of Season 3 of The White Lotus.In previous seasons, I’ve been discussing the show with Rob Henderson. He is traveling this week, but we plan to talk about future episodes together going forward. For now, let me know what you think of Sophie.We debate incest dynamics within the Ratliff family, the concept of the “Chadcel,” how the show handles the topic of phone addiction, the need for men to be at least

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86:46

Into the Dream World of David Lynch

The H&H Podcast ·

2025/01/28

David Lynch recently passed away, so Rob and I decided to honor the legendary director by watching two of his movies, Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2008), and discussing them.We liked the first film, and debated various interpretations of it, including the standard one and other possible theories. I’m motivated to have a contrarian take here, perhaps because of the overwhelming beauty I found in the reality we were initially introduced to.While Mulholland Drive gave us much to work

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7:49

Should American Men Work at Panda Express?

The H&H Podcast ·

2025/01/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob Henderson joined me last night on a live stream to discuss the question that has roiled right-wing twitter: should American men work at Panda Express? For background, see Rob’s coverage here. See also friend of the Substack Scott Greer, whose article we reference. Rob is amused by the Greerhead Pledge, which you can learn about from my conversation with Scott. We go into the status-money tradeoff in jobs, the

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8:25

Hillary Versus Bernie in Gotham

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2024/11/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob Henderson joined me on a livestream today to talk about The Penguin, the miniseries that ended last night. See here for our discussion of episodes 1-4, and point eight here on the racial demographics of crime in Gotham. I talk about my theory of the general message of the miniseries, which is that leftist revolutionaries are truly evil people who manipulate resentments for their own gain. I also argue that the

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8:18

Hanania/Henderson, AMA

The H&H Podcast ·

2024/10/30

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comLast night I had an AMA with Rob Henderson. The way I’m going to do these from now on is that the livestream is open to everyone in the moment, but only paid subscribers can listen to the whole thing. To join us for future episodes, you need to have the Substack app downloaded on your phone or tablet. Announcements are on X and Notes, and you get a notification when it starts on the app. I don’t want to email

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8:37

Tony Soprano Meets DC Comics

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2024/10/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob Henderson joins me to talk about the first four episodes of The Penguin miniseries on HBO. We discuss how it reminds us of and pays homage to other shows. To me, it seemed like HBO was trying to recreate the magic of Tony Soprano and using the DC Comics universe as a hook. We go over the similarities and differences between the two characters, both manipulative fat guys who get offended when you question their

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