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Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 130 – Weapons (2025)
The episode wherein we talk a hell of a lot about witches.
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2025-09-0151 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 129 – The Big Short (2015)
This guy from this thing would go on to be a guy in a bigger thing.
This entire episode is us shaking our fists at the sky. Turns out a 2015 movie about the 2008 recession is still sadly, painfully relevant.
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2025-08-111h 00Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 128 – Friendship (2025)
Demented things happen when men become friends.
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2025-07-2150 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 127 – Showing Up (2023)
We showed up for Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and spent some time with a very glum sculptor and one injured bird.
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2025-06-3050 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 126 – Sinners (2025)
Sinners is a blood-soaked, music-drenched, powerful and mystifying horror-thriller. And there are two Michael B. Jordans! Two!!
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2025-05-2643 min
Driven to DiscoverEarthworm Ecology with Nick HenshueBullied as a kid, Nick Henshue spent much of his childhood roaming the woods behind his house, fueling a love for nature that propels him to this day. Now an associate teaching professor of ecology at UB, and co-director of the EarthEd Institute, Henshue is an expert in restoration and soil ecology, with a primary focus on earthworms. He is also a passionate and celebrated educator. His conversation with host Cheryl Quimba dives deep into earthworm ecology, and it is fascinating—a testament both to the surprising complexity of this humble creature and to the remarkable talent Henshue has (he...
2025-05-0619 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 125 – I Saw The TV Glow (2024)
I know this might sound crazy. I don’t want to alarm you. Do you remember a TV show we used to watch together? It was called … The Pink Opaque.
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2025-04-2147 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseBonus Episode Unlocked: Micky 19 (Micky 17 Reconsidered)
We got feedback. We reconsidered. That’s how we do.
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2025-04-1522 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 124 – Severance Season 2 (2025)
We finished the Cold Harbor file. Please enter the room.
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2025-03-2354 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 123 – Mickey 17 (2025)
Our feelings about this one: mixed. Our love for Bong Joon Ho: eternal.
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2025-03-1739 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 122 – Scavengers Reign (2023)
Tip of the day: If you find yourself stranded on a strange and mysterious planet, be very careful with any and all goo.
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2025-02-101h 04Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 121 – Red Rocket (2021)
It’s 2016 and the U.S. is one big washed-up porn star. Happy new year.
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2025-01-2057 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 120 – Megalopolis (2024)
Oh, Francis Ford Coppola. If only you could have failed better.
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2024-12-2356 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 119 – Kneecap (2024)
Brits amach! (Brits out!)
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2024-12-0237 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 118 – Anora (2024)
So. Much. Yelling. In. Russian. We watched Sean Baker’s heartrending, tragi-comic new film and then dug into the class conflict / representations of sex work / weaponized wealth of it all.Also, we have a Patreon! It’s fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus content and get ahold of a thing we made that’s real and physical and can be held in your actual hands.
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2024-11-111h 00Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 117 – Neptune Frost
Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist fever dream, replete with otherworldly poetry, song, color, drums, wise birds, wheel men, mystical hackers, dancing miners, and a technological/earthly joy. And we’re so glad we watched it.
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2024-09-2359 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 116 – Thelma (2024)
Join us as we meet Thelma, 93, adorable grandma and certified badass. It’s the action comedy we never knew we needed.
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2024-08-2647 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 115 – How To Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
What counts as justified, rational action in a lethally warming world? Inquiring minds want to know.
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2024-07-291h 19Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 114 – Janet Planet (2024)
A review of Janet Planet calls it “not a movie to be explained,” and so this episode is more of the pondering/wandering variety. It’s summer. We’re here for it.
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2024-07-0852 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 113 – The Running Man (1987)
tHe wOrKiNg cLasS
Cheryl’s still working on her treatise, “A Unified Theory of Action Movies and Why They’re Her Problematic Fave,” but we get into some of its broader points after watching this adrenaline-fueled Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.
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2024-06-241h 01Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 112 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Cheryl is seriously considering shaving her head. #TheMadMaxCinematicUniverse #ImperatorFuriosa #girlboss
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2024-05-271h 00Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 110 – Civil War (2024)
Wooboy. Buckle up, folks. This ain’t going to be pretty.
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2024-04-1555 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 109 – 3-Iron (2004)
It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.
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2024-04-0158 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 108 – Dune: Part Two (2024)
We think Dune: Part Two was a Dud: Part Two. We have our reasons.
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2024-03-1848 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 107 – The Zone of Interest (2023)
This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of complicity, small acts of resistance, and the practice of viewing present-day horrors through the lens of future generations. It’s a lot. We muddle through, together.
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2024-02-261h 03Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 102 – Aniara (2018)
It’s time for a movie adapted from a long sci-fi poem written as a critical response to the United States’ bombing of Hiroshima. Aniara means despair.
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2023-09-0441 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 101 – Barbie (2023)
Get in, losers. We’re going to Barbie Land.
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2023-08-0758 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)
We didn’t expressly set out to do it, but we took a stance on Barbenheimer and watched Oppenheimer first. We had sooooo many things to say about this movie about a war criminal feeling bad for his crimes (bomb-and-cry). It was late but we were jazzed to talk about war movies, anti-war movies, and what it means to think you’re saving the world. Joe edited out a burp from Cheryl. You’re welcome.
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2023-07-241h 03Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 99 – The Blackening (2023)
We’re back and we watched The Blackening and had a lot of fun talking about why this horror-comedy / comedy-horror worked. Turns out — you need good writing and good performances to make a good movie. Easy. Also, Joe reveals a secret! As always, spoilers abound.
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2023-06-2046 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)
We get real loopy talking about the zany Filipino meta-action movie, Leonor Will Never Die, and somehow get on a tangent about our love for Star Trek because, well, the heart wants what it wants.
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2023-05-1547 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 97 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Roll for initiative and grab your arcane spells — we watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and we got all chaotic neutral with it.
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2023-04-1036 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 96 – The Last of Us Season 1 (2023)
The Last of Us made us angry. Do with that what you will.
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2023-03-211h 06Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 95 – White Noise (2022)
It’s 1984 but it’s also 2023 and we’re afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it’s goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still keeping us up at night.
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2023-03-0659 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 94 – The Triangle of Sadness (2022)
After a looooong hiatus, we’re (finally!) back. And we missed you. We watched Triangle of Sadness, one of the more recent iterations of the increasingly popular eat-the-rich theme, and talked all about representations of class struggle, villianizing billionaires, and the kinds of dismantling capitalism stories we wish were being made.
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2023-02-131h 11Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 93 – The Menu (2022)
We brought our appetites for the absurdist dark comedy that is The Menu – and we left satisfied!
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2022-11-281h 09Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 92 – The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin asks of its audience – how many fingers would you cut off to get your former best friend to leave you alone??
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2022-11-1452 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 91 – Barbarian (2022)
MAN BABY
Join us for a brief stay at probably the worst Airbnb experience of all time. We grit our teeth (and sometimes closed our eyes) and watched Barbarian!
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2022-10-3150 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 90 – Vesper (2022)
Needs More Slime
Vesper is viscous, gooey, slipshod, and visceral. Ferny plants shoot lethal, glowing pink darts that burrow into you and turn into insects. Scavenging pilgrims build rubbish towers high into the sky. A floating orb holds the consciousness of a bedridden man, and a 13-year-old girl plays with plants to have some shot at survival. Yes, we enjoyed this one.
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2022-10-0334 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 89 – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Our biggest piece of advice if you’re planning a hurricane party with your friends in a mansion for the weekend – Put. Away. The swords. We watched Bodies Bodies Bodies and talked about funny horror and killer parlor games. And also – what are people in their twenties like again??
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2022-09-1232 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 88 – The Rehearsal (2022)
Fake real fake real bar bar bar
Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is bizarre, uncomfortable, emotional, surprising, and deeply, deeply weird. This show was HBO being cool with spending millions to let a guy confront his anxiety through helping others confront their own anxieties – which is ok by us!
Also – we’re back! (thanks for sticking with us, we love you).
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2022-09-0550 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 86 – Elvis (2022)
STAR TURN
Special episode alert! We’ve got two guests joining us — New York State Assemblymember Jon Rivera, and Ethan Powers — to review Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. We laugh, we cry, we disagree, we spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what’s going on with Tom Hanks. Are you lonesome tonight?? Well, come join us! sorry
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2022-07-051h 04Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 85 – Clockwatchers (1997)
It’s 1997 and our queens Parker Posey, Toni Collete, and Lisa Kudrow are at the height of their powers playing temps trying to survive in a mind-numbing cubicle hellscape. Clockwatchers, another entry in our ongoing series on labor movies, feels prescient in its representation of disposable workers that sadly still holds true today. Bonus: we reminisce about a few of our own past jobs! There’s some, uh, pallet smashing.
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2022-06-2054 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 84 – The Bob’s Burgers Movie (is Not Maverick) (2022)
For this episode we joined the Bob’s Burgers crew in their quest to pay one month of their business loan payment and solve a grisly murder. It’s sweet and gross and comforting and touching. The Belchers – they’re just like us!
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2022-06-0632 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 83 – The Sleep Dealer (2008)
In Alex Rivera’s 2008 sci-fi drama Sleep Dealer, people are plugged into a global computer network via nodes on their bodies, work involves controlling your robot avatar in another country, and memories are sold to pay back student loans. It’s the near future!!
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2022-05-3038 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 82 – The Humans (2021)
Hey, it’s Joe. I’m not used to writing these episode recaps and, well, we watched the 2021 movie The Humans (based on the 2015 play) and it was, uh, full of sad but also enduring humans.
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2022-05-1839 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 81 – Severance (2022)
Once you get us started, we can talk about work until the cows come home, or until it’s 5 o’clock and time to ride the brain-blending elevator down to the floor where you get to be a human again. We talk Kafka, fluorescent lighting, bad design, worker solidarity, personal sh*t, and waffle parties. It’s Severance time, baby.
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2022-04-2557 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 80 – Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
In Everything Everywhere All at Once, we get a bedraggled, fed up, middle aged, Chinese immigrant wife and mom as our protagonist (played by the incomparable Michelle Yeoh), and she gets to kick actual ass as she tears through an IRS building while being audited. So yeah, we liked it.
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2022-04-1137 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 79 – Drive My Car (2021)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi‘s Drive My Car is a quiet, slow moving, tender movie that rewards patience and an attentive regard for the smallest moments. We digress at times during our conversation (as always), so get ready to hear our thoughts on the craft of fiction, finite friendships, and suffering, oh, suffering.
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2022-03-2151 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 78 – The Batman (2022)
In this house, we stan Robert Pattinson. Even when (especially when) he plays an angsty, brooding, eyeliner-wearing, journal-writing Bruce Wayne who probably listens to The Cure.
The movie theater was packed when we got there and we were worried The Batman was sold out. Turns out, all the teenage girls and their moms were there for BTS Permission to Dance on Stage. They were positively giddy. Honestly, we’re happy for them.
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2022-03-1438 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 77 – Kimi (2022)
Sometimes you’re in the mood for a movie that’s good-bad. Kimi is good-bad, with a shockingly simple storyline that has three bad guys killed by a nail gun at the end. What more could you want?
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2022-02-2835 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 76 – Bigbug (2022)
We were a wee bit disappointed in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s newest film, Big Bug, which is maybe why we spent most of this conversation talking about the end of empire and fabulist futures. But we connect it all back to the movie somehow, we do!
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2022-02-1437 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 72 – Succession Season 3 (2021)
It’s a race to the bottom! After the season 3 finale of Succession, we talk psychosexual drama, morality mental exercises, critiques of the ruling class, assistant labor, Cousin Greg’s ethical collapse, tragedy, comedy, squishy sympathies, and which Roy family member we’d be (Joe = Kendall/Shiv; Cheryl = Marcia).
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2021-12-1430 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 58 – The Green Knight (2021)
The survival of the commune is the reproduction of all its members as self-sustaining peasants, whose surplus time belongs precisely to the commune, the work of war etc.
“A Filmed Adaptation of the Chivalric Romance by Anonymous,” emblazoned across the screen in old-timey font, is how we’re introduced to David Lowery’s The Green Knight. The film is based on the Medieval poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” and we follow the legendary knight of King Arthur’s round table as he takes part in a pretty fucked up “Christmas game.” What follows is a fever dream involving bandits...
2021-08-021h 03Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 54 – Reality Bites (1994)
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him
Reality fucking BITES. It did in 1994, and it does in 2021 (maybe? That’s debatable). We took a stroll down memory lane to watch the definitive Gen X movie and discussed the waning appeal of Troy Dyer, the enduring charm of Winona Ryder. and the cynicism of the post-9/11 moviescape.
the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-covered fingers, glittering and precise; but...
2021-07-0153 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 53 – Minari (2020)
We drove an hour out of Buffalo to spend the weekend in Rochester. We walked, we ate, we gawked, we frolicked. We watched Minari, a tender portrait of a Korean family trying their damnedest to start a farm in Arkansas without completely falling apart. An unbelievably cute little boy and a very funny grandma steal the show. Warning: we workshopped the ending (!).
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2021-06-2148 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 52 – Norma Rae (1979)
What if we all will have one moment in each of our lives that is the equivalent of Norma Rae standing on top of a table in the middle of a textile factory silently holding above her head a cardboard sign on which she scrawled in black marker the single word “UNION”?Let’s be ready for that, ok?
See the other episodes in our labor series: Harlan County, U.S.A (1976), The Assistant (2019), American Factory (2019), Matewan (1987), & our interview with Chanelle Gallant.
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2021-06-071h 11Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 51 – Mare of Easttown (2021)
Powerful Vape
Apparently on May 31, the evening of the final episode of Mare of Easttown, HBO Max’s servers crashed for several hours because the show’s popularity had grown so much that more people were logging on than the servers could handle. That’s successful word of mouth, babyyyy!!
We couldn’t help but get caught up in this mystery / police procedural / small town tragedy / family drama too. In this episode we cover nailing dialects, career-topping performances, copaganda, trauma’s aftermath, and the need for more amateur sleuth stories. And Wawa!
ACT 1 : Frustration
ACT 2: Sorrow (Sad...
2021-06-011h 01Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 50 – Stowaway (2021)
“The Cold Equations,” the 1954 science fiction story by Tom Godwin, was a genre-defining work that looked hard at the impersonal efficiency of modern technologies, the types of sacrifice we find acceptable in the name of “progress,” and the inevitability of death. The 2021 film Stowaway, directed by Joe Penna and starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson, and Toni Collette (inspired by the story) has similar ambitions, but falls about 200 light-years short of truly tackling any of it. It’s a diverting field trip into outer space, but we didn’t find it to be the philosophical challenge it thought it wa...
2021-05-1744 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 49 – Nomadland (2020)
Swankie
Minimalist chic, Instagrammable #vanlyfe, Nomadland is not. It’s also not a portrait of a struggling itinerant worker, or a larger story about post-recession America as it slips through a fraying social safety net (or else, it does neither of these things successfully).So what is it? We’re not entirely sure, but we have some fun talking about what it wants to be, lobbing some sharp-tongued critiques, and thinking through the stories we tell ourselves while living through crisis.
The director’s dad is a billionaire.
2021-05-1058 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 48 – Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets And, Also, Some Bars We Remember
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets replicates the feeling of being in a crowded, boozy, pre-COVID dive bar so well that we were already dreading the next day’s hangover as the movie was winding down. BN, EP has some issues, which we did our best to unpack, but we also really digressed at points and got to talking about the bars of our youth and what life is like now as a couple of olds. Gotta say — happy to still be around.
2021-04-1548 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 47 – Godzilla vs. Kong
Hollow Earth Jawns
It was late and we were too tired to sleep so we watched Godzilla vs. Kong and it felt like walking into Earth’s hollow center where big things go smash and reasons don’t exist. Join us there.
One of more ho-hum moments.
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2021-04-0549 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 46 – Good Time (2017)
Alternate, more accurate titles for Good Time:
Extremely Stressful Time
Nerve-Wracking Time
On Edge Time
Don’t-Watch-This-Alone Time
Apparently, the title of Benny & Josh Safdie’s 2017 film, starring Robert Pattinson, is prison slang and refers to the reduction in an inmate’s sentence for good behavior. The life you lead after you’re released is your “good time.”
It does not refer to the experience that a viewer might have in watching this movie. Good Time is a tense, increasingly disturbing couple hours that follows Pattinson’s chara...
2021-03-1533 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 45 – Caste (2020) (Book Club)
We took a break from movies this week to discuss Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House. In it, Wilkerson contends that racism in the United States is closely akin to the caste system in India and the violence of Nazi Germany. The book’s reception has been overwhelmingly positive since its release. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller, has won or been nominated for numerous awards, has sold over half a million copies by year’s end, and Netflix has plans to produce an adaptation directed by Ava DuVernay.
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2021-03-071h 15Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 44 – Malcolm & Marie (2021)
SHORT VERSION OF OUR REVIEW
Sam Levinson’s 2021 Malcolm & Marie is a pandemic movie in that it’s about two people at home who fight, cry, and make mac & cheese. It’s also not a pandemic movie in that it opens with them returning from Malcolm’s movie premiere, presumably with lots of people hugging and breathing on each other. Also, they both stay in their fancy clothes entirely too long after getting home.
We get waaay off course during this conversation and spend some time talking about their gorgeous floor-to-ceiling windows and the general nature of sadne...
2021-02-2352 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 43 – Space Sweepers (2021)
We were in the mood for something FUN for a change so we watched the 2021 Korean space action-adventure flick, Space Sweepers. It’s got scavenger space trucks, a motley crew of likable misfits, a Jeff Bezos/Elon Musk-type on steroids, and a cute little girl who just might be a weapon of mass destruction. We, of course, love that the heroes are ordinary folk, and that at the center of all the adventuring is a strong ethic of care. Would recommend!
Ok this is the best we could do: Song Joong-ki GIFing from some other movie.
2021-02-1544 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 42 – Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Making it work.
We’ve been on a run of excellent movies and Harlan County, U.S.A. is no exception. This 1976 documentary about a yearlong strike of coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky is riveting, powerful, and one of the best depictions of collective organizing we’ve seen. A must-watch for every person out there who has to work to survive (i.e., most of us) and time to must-watch. (Also, we say to heck w/the both-sides-ism of later labor docs like the Obama produced American Factory. To heck!)
Also making it work.
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2021-01-261h 06Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 41 – Bacurau (2019)
All we have to say is WATCH THIS MOVIE!
Actually, here’s a little more:
Bacurau is one of the best movies we’ve seen in years. This 2019 Brazilian film is strange, funny, dark, and galvanizing, and it’s impossible to adequately capture its brilliance with a few choice adjectives. At first blush, it’s the story of a small village in Brazil (set sometime in the near future) grappling with things like lack of access to water and a corrupt and annoyingly unhelpful mayor. Not a lot of surprises there. But about halfway throu...
2021-01-1951 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 40 – First Cow (2019)
There Will Be Oily Cakes
Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow is a Western like no other, an immigrant story like no other, and a moving, funny, tragic tale of friendship born out of the need to survive and some stolen milk. It was just the movie to watch as we huddled up in a snow-covered cabin and turned the calendar page to 2021.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
Write us?
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2021-01-1141 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 39 – They Live (1988)
We took a sharp left turn and watched John Carpenter‘s 1988 action/sci-fi flick, They Live. The movie’s IMDB description is all you really need by way of introduction:
“They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.”
And by “they,” we mean…media savvy aliens with fancy watches that look like Skeletor. It was a wild ride!!
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send...
2021-01-0439 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 38 – Residue (2020)
We were long overdue to watch a truly good movie, and Merawi Gerima‘s poetic, quietly moving Residue, about a young filmmaker who returns home to DC to write a script about his neighborhood after being away for years, is a truly good movie. It’s an ode to childhood, an elegy for a city, and the best examination of gentrification we’ve seen yet.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
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2020-12-1650 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 37 – Hillbilly Elegy
Everything Is Fine!
Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by J.D. Vance, is bullshit, and we take a little time to talk about why.
Referenced:
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Of special note:Amy Adams and Glenn Close have been nominated 13 times for an Academy Award between them, but neither have won yet.
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2020-11-301h 00Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 36 – The Social Dilemma (2020)
These dudes are dramatizing an algorithm.
Do we think in Twitter? Can we truly opt out of social media? Have we become machines of our machines? The Social Dilemma has us tackling these questions and so much more. Boot up your brains for a big honking episode. PS – we both shut down our Facebook accounts!!!
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-10-211h 21Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 35 – Dirty Dancing (1987)
Above: the dirtiest dancing.
It’s Dirty Dancing. DIRTY DANCING. DIRTY DANCING!
Dirty.
Dancing.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-10-0845 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 34 – My Octopus Teacher
We dive deep into Craig Foster’s man-octopus love story/documentary My Octopus Teacher. Polysemousness! Anthropocentrist narrative arcs! The leftovers of transcendentalism! Learning from the animal other! Cool octopus pics!
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-09-2249 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 33 – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Laughs all around.
WHY CAN’T ANYONE ELSE TAKE A MENTAL DUMP AND/OR LET THEIR FORMAL FREAK FLAG FLY ON FILM?! we ask in our conversation about Charlie Kaufman’s 2020 I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-09-0843 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 32 – The Last Dance (2020)
Only a nominal amount of Space Jam related material.
Sports words.
We did sports words and thoughts over the 2020 Netflix-ESPN documentary The Last Dance, about Space Jam actor Michael Jordan and several non-Space Jam actors on the Chicago Bulls as they pursue excellence in 90s earth basketball. Cheryl rises to the moment. Joe gets sportsbrain trying to talk about sportsbrain. Enjoy. Stay safe. Pray the rims return to American stanchions.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
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2020-08-1953 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 31 – The Assistant (2019)
apology email conventions
We talk about 2019’s The Assistant, an icy, realist examination of a tyrannical boss, sexual abuse, and complicity in the workplace.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-07-2946 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 30 – Is Floor Lava? Floor is Lava. Floor is Lava… (2020)
Synecdoche? Metonymy? Chiasmus? Dithyramb?
We don’t have anything to say about the show that most people are watching or recently watched and are experiencing as a gummy cavity where their time was: Floor Is Lava.
Don’t watch it. Or do. Nothing matters. Floor is lava.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-07-1338 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 29 – Jackson Rising (2017) (Book Club)
Build & Fight / Build & Fight / Build & Fight / Build & Fight / Build & Fight / Build & Fight
Book club is back. We discuss the first chapter of Jackson Rising (Daraja Press, 2017) and Cooperation Jackson’s expansive vision. We don’t do Patreon or merch or anything here, but if you’re a fan of the podcast, we’d love it if you donate to Cooperation Jackson or Buffalo’s Black Love Resists in the Rust.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com an...
2020-06-2452 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 28 – Means TV
Birchy-tree-plane OR The ruins of capitalism?
What does it mean in the year of our Lord 2020 to seek out media that is not produced by profit-driven, morally bankrupt, corporate machines?
Means TV — self-billed as the world’s first worker-owned, post-capitalist streaming service — is here to help answer that. They’ve got documentaries, shorts, news, cartoons, satirical Buzzfeed-y life hack videos, and a whole bunch of other stuff. We checked out some of their offerings, including a documentary about Matewan and Appalachia’s labor history, a moving and spare film about a Syrian refugee trying to get by in New J...
2020-05-2154 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 27 – De Rigueur Tiger King Content
SECRET TIGER KING ERIC DOES NOT LIKE MÖTLEY CRÜE / TOO PLASTIC
It wasn’t until after we recorded our conversation about Netflix’s Tiger King that we realized the hit documentary series is a mirror and what it shows is inscrutable. But that didn’t stop us! We cover labor, misogyny, Edward Said, spectacle, captivity, electoral politics, exploitation, the exotic-animal-owner-as-colonizer, polyamory, true crime, and lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2020-04-1455 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 26 – How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism
Unemployment Line, NYC
While we’re all marooned at home baking bread in sweatpants and trying to make friends with our very legitimate and mounting anxieties, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had an on-fire Zoom conversation about coronavirus capitalism and how to beat it. Haymarket Books (as always, a model publisher for the people) hosted, and thousands of people tuned in. Their conversation of course sparked our own conversation about how to think through what’s happening now and where we need to go from here.Watch their talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0&t=7s...
2020-04-011h 04Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 25 – 12 Monkeys (1995) / Life Under Covid Lock Down
For some reason we’ve been watching movies about pandemics to escape from the pandemic. We thought we’d take the Bruce Willis/Brad Pitt time-traveling, plague-spewing 12 Monkeys for a ride. We found it mostly underwhelming, so we spent the majority of the episode talking about what the FUCK is going on in the world right now, our feelings, etc. etc. Come cope with us.
2020-03-2247 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 24 – BoJack Horseman Finale (2020)
WE V CHOKED UP
We’re all going to die. It took a cartoon about a writer struggling toward happiness and an alcoholic horse man / former sitcom actor (and a cat-mother-agent-former-girlfriend-of-3-boys-in-a-trench coat) ruining other people’s lives then almost terminating his own to get us to confront this seriously for the first time in a few years. THIS IS A VERY FUN EPISODE. Please join us for the BoJack Horseman finale.
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2020-02-1550 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 23 – American Factory (2019)
Screening of American Factory
Thriller novels: where JK Rowling goes to be a piece of shit and politicians like Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich dramatize their world view in the stupidest possible ways! The Obamas are too good for that: they’re diving into the movie biz via their partnership with Netflix. Their first entry is the 2019 American Factory, which works really hard toward mediocrity despite a number of compelling moments. WHO COULD HAVE ANTICIPATED THAT?
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, ques...
2020-01-0741 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 22 – Cats
Cats.
Welcome to the holiday edition of Two For Space Jam, Please! We backed our dump truck up to Cats, a movie about…Cats? Cheryl makes a spirited defense of this inflamed jellicle. Joe does not. The conversation ends w/a hostage scenario in which an armed intruder breaks into our home, puts a gun up to one of our heads, and asks the other to choose between watching Cats and Marriage Story. What do we choose? Do we choose? Dear listener, press play to find out.
2019-12-2338 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 21 – Friendship (Booksmart, sort of)
In our secret holiday bunker, we drank a bottle of wine, watched Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, and then forgot to talk at all about Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart. But Cheryl has a whole lot to say about female friendship. We feel this is in the spirit of the movie.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2019-12-0938 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 20 – Parasite (2019)
MAYBE WE WILL DO PARASITE PART II?
Class struggle! The haunted houses of the rich! The myth of hope in capitalism. Half of us crying. We talk about Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite.
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
As always, send yr comments, questions, and movie suggestions to twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
2019-11-2247 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 19 – Chanelle Gallant
We were thrilled to sit down with Chanelle Gallant in Toronto to talk about her brilliant essay, “Fuck You Pay Me,” in Pleasure Activism (see Episode 13), her book-in-progress about sex as a form of unpaid work, and, of course, Hustlers. In the conversation, Chanelle references the crucial work of Kate Zen (Twitter, articles on Truth Out, and Kate Zen on Hustlers); Red Canary, which supports the grassroots organizing of migrant sex workers; and the Toronto-based group Butterfly, which “provides support to, and advocates for, the rights of Asian and migrant sex workers .” Check it out.
2019-11-111h 02Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 18 – Succession
Please, Greg, pull this off.
We review Succession through the second season. We didn’t mean to. It just happened. I’m hoping oligarchs won’t be relevant in two years so we don’t have to review it again. Who knows!
Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro.
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2019-10-281h 00Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 17 – Hustlers (2019)
J.Lo & $.
The one where we talk about J.Lo looking phenomenal at 50, the honesty of a lap dance, and how the whole world’s a strip club.
After our discussion our comrade Chanelle recommended some reading–a piece by Kate Zen that adds some crucial context and insight into the film’s representation of Destiny: “Constance Wu’s real-life ‘Hustlers’ inspiration and the problem with model minority redemption narratives.”
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2019-10-1851 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 16 – Matewan (1987)
I have a very convoluted biblical allegory to tell you that starts with Joseph and his coat of many colors and ends with company spies getting got.
We dip into the vault to watch John Sayles 1987 labor classic, Matewan, the based-on-fact story (and here’s a hilariously biased company version of the story for kicks) in which Mingo County coalminers enter a deadly struggle with their bosses and their thugs for improved conditions. We talk labor in cinema, dramatizing solidarity and organizing, what the labor films of the future might look like, and Cheryl-super-crush Will Oldham and his gorgeous ki...
2019-08-121h 03Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 15 – Midsommer (2019)
It’s like day 7 of our summer vacation and I ate so much I’m like uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.
fill yr precious sound cups
Dearest listeners, we have returned from a short break to get freaked out by this summer’s horror-pastoral freakout, Midsommer. We discuss literary precedents, communitarian-phobia in cinema, grad students as villains (I hate that I’m linking to Slate but C pointed out that our point had been made), and more. Also, stay tuned for our first episode featuring an interview with a writer-activist who is doing rad, necessary things. We’re freaking out about this, but in a diffe...
2019-07-2257 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 13 – Chanelle Gallant’s “F_ck You, Pay Me” (2019) (BOOK CLUB)
We’re reading Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, written and gathered by adrienne maree brown. There was so much here to talk about but, for now, we’re turning to one essay in particular: Chanelle Gallant’s tremendous “Fuck You, Pay Me,” a myth-shattering case for the right of sex workers to use their sexuality to get the life they want. You can learn more about adrienne maree brown’s work here and Chanelle Gallant’s work here. And listen to our interview of Chanelle in Episode 19.
2019-05-0647 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 12 – Bon Appétit, It’s Not the Avengers
O Noodles
The responsible pop culture thing for us to do would have been for us to watch the Avengers. We were going to watch Us but then a lot of life stuff got in the way. We had one last chance this weekend but by that point every showing after 1:00 PM at our semi-rural theatre had been Avengered. And guess what? We don’t give a fuck about the Avengers! Or the related demi-plane of superhero content. Instead, we’ve been zoning out to seven to thirty-five minute videos of Bon Appétit’s test kitchen ppl making food, s...
2019-04-2955 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 11: Emergent Strategy (2017) (BOOK CLUB)
Joe’s operating system crashed during this one.
This week’s movie is a book. That’s how things go down here sometimes. Cheryl just read adrienne maree brown’s visionary self/society/galactic help book 2017 Emergent Strategy. Joe read it a year ago. We both are thinking about how to be in this f-ed up world, so we hit record and started talking. brown’s 2019 Pleasure Activism is at the top of our pile. Watch out for our conversation about it in 2021. Also, we will watch a movie soon, we promise.
2019-04-0155 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 10: Magic Mike XXL (from the archives)
we didn’t know we needed some beef in 2015
2019-03-2143 minTwo for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 9: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
After Green Book won an Oscar, we toyed w/hate-watching it since Feb cinema is a dumping ground for lame movies. We decided instead to return to Boots Riley’s powerhouse directorial debut Sorry to Bother You. We talk it over in an end-of-work-week fugue state, get wildly off topic, and work our way back to the point: we loved this movie real hard.
2019-03-111h 02Two for Space Jam, PleaseEpisode 8: Gravity (from the archives)
george clooney enjoys having his servos rewired
please forgive our podcasting sins
Full disclaimer: we recorded this early-days episode at a McDonald’s after watching Gravity. There are some eating noises. Forgive us Apple o god don’t drop us. Also, we’ll fix our metadata we swear.
Anyway, we wanted to keep all the Cuarón episodes in somewhat close proximity. As for the movie itself: meh.
2019-03-0428 min
The Invisible WorldThe Invisible World ep 177This episode we cover BOOK EXPO with interviews from a few authors and publicists you will want to hear! Also, Charlie Charlie debunked debunked, folks struck by lightning, Pluto’s chaotic moons, the world surrounded by giant plasma tubes and more!
For more on the projects we discussed tonight, please visit:
Conversations with Mediums
By Scott Podmore
www.conversationswithmediums.com
Rare, by Keith Veronese
Explore the Cosmos, by Cap Saucier
Cheryl Quimba, Publicist
www.prometheusbooks.com
ACDC FAQ and The Secrets of the Universe: Universal Lives, Past Lives, Ghosts Adventures and More
by Susan Masino
www.susanmasino.com
Pathfinder: Occult Adventures
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