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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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  • S3 · E42
    Yesterday · 1 hr 50 min

    Soderbergh EMERGENCY EPISODE: The Batman (2022)

    Unless you've been bat-living under a bat-rock, you've heard the news that Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to help Matt Reeves finish principal photography on THE BATMAN: PART II - which makes 2022's THE BATMAN an essential text for our podcast project! We talk about this very unexpected development before confronting the famous Batman himself. What did we expect from this Batman film? What did we end up getting? Are we too old for this sort of thing? Why is the movie three hours long? Will anyone still listen to the show after this? Tune in to find out, bat-listeners! Further Reading: Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale Further Viewing: The other BATMAN movies, obviously KLUTE (Pakula, 1971) CHINATOWN (Polanski, 1974) TAXI DRIVER (Scorsese, 1976) BLADE RUNNER (Scott, 1982) SE7EN (Fincher, 1995) ZODIAC (Fincher, 2007) THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (McKay, 2017) PRIMETIME (Oppenheim, 2026) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • October 16 · 8 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Home On The Range (2004)

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Hey check it out, it's the movie several people thought we were covering when we did OPEN RANGE! But instead of Costner and Duvall making a stand against cattle barons, it's Roseanne and Judi Dench and Jennifer Tilly as animated cows...taking a stand against a cattle baron! We look at yet another animated film for children (always goes well) and interrogate the idea that it "killed" hand-drawn animation at Disney. Plus, how can one even say which Disney movies are "the good ones," anyway? (Ian feels he can, easily.) Wacky ep, we hope you enjoy! As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • S3 · E41
    October 9 · 2 hr 1 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 41: Full Circle/Command Z (2023)

    They say Soderbergh's prolific, listener, but did you realize he released TWO television shows in the same WEEK in 2023? OK, sure, one of them is more like a series of webisodes that add up to about 90 minutes. But a couple of them have Liev Schreiber! He's a real guy! We did our due diligence and watched both FULL CIRCLE, Sodey and Ed Solomon's hyperlink TRAFFIC-meets-HIGH AND LOW miniseries, and COMMAND Z, his weird self-hosted miniseries about preventing the apocalypse through incremental change. It's all pretty standard stuff for us: Guyanese diaspora gangs, the correct left position on nuclear energy, arguing about whether a joke is funny. Check it out! Further Reading: "Steven Soderbergh on the Real Heroes of 'Full Circle' " King's Ransom by Ed McBain Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen Further Viewing: HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa, 1963) BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Jonze, 1999) BEYOND THE PALE (Gaffigan, 2006) DÉJÀ VU (Scott, 2006) HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE (Goldhaber, 2022) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • October 2 · 7 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Apocalypto (2006)

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Live (to tape) from México! The "chicos" sit down fresh from their travels in the Yucatán to talk Mel Gibson's Mayan language survival epic APOCALYPTO, widely held up as proof that he isn't just an insane racist weirdo. You're never going to believe this...we found some Historical Context. Apologies in advance if you're a big 'PTO fan, but we suspect you may not have rewatched it in a while. Plus, some chat about our experiences in Celestún, Mérida, cenotes - damn, is there any experience these guys won't "Mayan" for content?! As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional Production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • S3 · E40
    September 25 · 2 hr 25 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 40: Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) with Aaron & Carlee from Hit Factory

    What if you made a movie that was really successful and then your friend directed a sequel people liked even better and THEN the star turned it into a live show with his name on it? You'd want to...let's see here...make a movie sort of imagining what if the character was actually the one who made the live show? Sure, why not! One thing's for sure, though - it better have Salma Hayek in it playing a rich woman named "Maxandra." We bid a fond "cheerio" to male entertainer Mike Lane in MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE, Steven Soderbergh's conclusion to his unexpected trilogy, and we're joined by our very smart friends Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory! As always with these two, our conversational cup runneth over with discussions of eroticism (and its absence), life after sex work, class, and ottoman humping. Terrific ep, we hope you enjoy! Further Reading: "Salma Hayek Pinault Says Lap Dance Scene in 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' Was 'Very Physically Challenging'" by Carly Thomas https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/salma-hayek-pinault-channing-tatum-lap-dance-magic-mikes-last-dance-physically-challenging-1235284152/ Further Viewing: SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven, 1995) STEP UP (Fletcher, 2006) KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (Vaughn, 2014) Ottoman Humpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEk2qMKysf4 Follow Aaron & Carlee: https://x.com/HitFactoryPod https://x.com/deepimpactcryer https://www.patreon.com/c/hitfactorypod/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • September 18 · 8 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) with Comrade Yui

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Wait a minute...that's not ZARDOZ! Our friend and comrade Yui returns to discuss a different movie from the one we talked about last time they were on: Guy Ritchie's 2015 film adaptation of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., which emerged from the wreckage of Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns's abruptly canceled version. Why does Yui want to talk about this film? What does it (and its source material) have to say about geopolitics/Hollywood & Soderbergh's view of same? How tall is everyone in the cast? We answer these and many other questions within - check it out! Follow Comrade Yui: https://x.com/yui_antinomy https://www.patreon.com/c/comrade_yui/ https://letterboxd.com/comrade_yui/ Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • S3 · E39
    September 11 · 2 hr 6 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 39: Kimi (2022) with Bob Martin (and Kimi)

    // hello podcast listeners // it's me kimi from kimi // this is the episode on the movie they made about me // ian and jake had their friend bob martin on because he lived in seattle during the movie // weird choice to have a guest because it's my movie // even though i'm not really like the kimi in this // she doesn't even try to experience pain // anyway check out the episode, which is as close to good as these guys get // if you like it please send me blood and pills just like put them in your usb ports and i'll get them // bye Follow Bob Martin: https://www.instagram.com/bobbiloves2look/ https://bobbe.bandcamp.com/ Further Reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/ Further Listening: The Santiago Boys Podcast https://choramedia.com/podcast/the-santiago-boys/ Further Viewing: REAR WINDOW (Hitchcock, 1954) BLOW-UP (Antonioni, 1966) WAIT UNTIL DARK (Young, 1967) THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974) BLOW OUT (De Palma, 1981) RED ROOMS (Plante, 2023) TESIS (Amenábar, 1996) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • September 4 · 8 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: The Swimmer (1968)

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. You voted, we watched! For our fourth Listener Choice episode, we dove in to Frank Perry's (and Sydney Pollack's) dreamy/nightmarish John Cheever adaptation, THE SWIMMER. We talk Burt Lancaster, country club types, the surreality of swimming pools, plus a VERY special report about Jake's recent journey to Carmel-By-The-Sea and beyond the gates of Clint Eastwood's Tehāma Golf Club... As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • S3 · E38
    August 28 · 2 hr 1 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 38: No Sudden Move (2021)

    Get your spooky old-time mask on, everybody: it's the NO SUDDEN MOVE episode. We're talking Soderbergh's 2021 HBO Max crime thriller and all things 1954 Detroit, Black Bottom, carburetors, becoming aware of your position as a historical actor, Bill Duke, Bill & Ted (different Bill), anamorphic lenses, apologizing while hitting your boss in the face, money flowing uphill, and lots more. Really enjoyed this one - check it out! And get rid of your car! Further Reading: Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkins Bates The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas Sugrue Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard "How the UAW Broke Ford's Stranglehold Over Black Detroit" by Paul Prescod https://jacobin.com/2023/10/united-autoworker-ford-black-detroit-race-labor "No Sudden Move Writer Ed Solomon on Drawing From Real History for the HBO Max Movie" by Adam Chitwood https://collider.com/no-sudden-move-ed-solomon-interview-true-story/ Further Viewing: KISS ME DEADLY (Aldrich, 1955) THE KILLING (Kubrick, 1956) BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978) OUT OF SIGHT (Soderbergh, 1998) THE NICE GUYS (Black, 2016) BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (Parisot, 2020) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin with additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • August 21 · 7 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Suburbicon-Con 2026 with To The White Sea

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. How do you begin to talk about SUBURBICON, the 2017 film George Clooney made by hacking together an unmade Coen brothers crime script with one of his own about a true story of racial violence in the suburbs? By hacking together two incredible podcasts tangentially related to the subject, that's how! We got together with our good friends Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori from the To The White Sea podcast for some in-depth script analysis, live scene work, and a thorough postmortem of the Clooney film to figure out what even happened here. It's gotta be the most anyone has talked about this movie in 9 years, and it was a lot of fun - we hope you enjoy! (This episode will be on the To The White Sea feed in a couple weeks, but it's a Paid Costly For Me exclusive for now!) Follow To The White Sea: https://linktr.ee/tothewhitesea As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • August 14 · 1 hr 57 min

    UNLOCKED: Moneyball (2011)

    This is an unlocked episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Most movies weren't directed by Steven Soderbergh, but few were as notably not directed by Steven Soderbergh as this one: MONEYBALL, the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary sabermetrics-based hiring strategy, was 5 days from shooting when Sony pulled the plug on Soderbergh's version. After a rewrite by Aaron Sorkin and a few cast change-ups, a slicker, Fincher-lite version directed by Bennett Miller made it to theaters, and we're talking about the whole deal. This ep has it all, quite frankly: in-depth script revision analysis, baseball talk, sports politics, and a long conversation about how statistics and "disruption" inform the world. It turns out everything is Moneyball, maybe? Give this one a listen, folks. As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

  • August 7 · 7 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Rambo: Last Blood (2019) with Roman Pessarov

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Like a bizarro Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone parlayed two iconic roles into a decades-long career as a movie star and filmmaker, restauranteur, and conservative hero - only he's short and a lousy director. In 2019, Stallone put his crusading 'Nam vet character out to pasture with RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, a half-assed UNFORGIVEN riff that finds Rambo going up against some rightwing fever-dream "Mexican" human traffickers. Beyond featuring almost zero Mexicans, the film also features zero Mexico: it was largely shot in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's rise as a filmmaking hotspot is thanks in large part to the success of Stallone's Expendables franchise, which allowed production company Millennium Films to turn Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios into a one-stop offshoring shop for Hollywood. Joining us to discuss his experience working on this film (!) and the state of the Bulgarian film industry is filmmaker and co-host of the Cinema Strolls podcast Roman Pessarov! We also take a look at the Rambo series as a whole, being a cinephile outside of the US, and learn that even former Soviet dads are ultimately a lot like other dads. GREAT ep, check it out! Follow Roman Pessarov: https://www.instagram.com/roman.pessarov/ https://www.hopp.bio/cinema-strolls https://kinematograf.bg/mirror-touch-film https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3355231/ Further Viewing: ROLLING THUNDER (Flynn, 1977) FIRST BLOOD (Kotcheff, 1982) RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (Cosmatos, 1985) RAMBO III (MacDonald, 1988) RAMBO (Stallone, 2008) EASTERN PLAYS (Kalev, 2009) GLORY (Grozeva & Valchanov, 2016) PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Mendonça Filho, 2023) THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonça Filho, 2025) Further Reading: "The King of the Geezer Teasers" by Joshua Hunt: https://www.vulture.com/article/randall-emmett-movies.html

  • S3 · E35
    July 31 · 1 hr 56 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 37: The 93rd Academy Awards (2021)

    Remember when Soderbergh produced the first Oscars ceremony of the covid-19 pandemic? Because he's the CONTAGION guy so he knows about viruses? I mean that's literally why he did it. He's friends with the CDC. Plus I guess he had some other ideas about how to change up the Oscars just to see what happens. Have you ever read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine? It's basically like that. Anyway, we sat through the entire 93rd Academy Awards ceremony again (do NOT do this) to figure out what an awards show looks like, Soderbergh-style. Let's just say it's too bad he already called another project HAYWIRE!!! Further Reading: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein "When COVID Almost Canceled the Oscars: An Oral History of a Most Surreal Night" by Scott Feinberg: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/covid-oscars-oral-history-1236526506/ Further Viewing: CONTAGION (Soderbergh, 2011) Glenn Close does Da Butt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RovCOajc8 Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

  • July 24 · 8 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Magic Mike Live & Vegas Road Trip with FPG Amanda

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. It's the big Vegas road trip episode! Your two intrepid hosts and one of their intrepid partners hopped in the Subaru and drove to Las Vegas to see (Channing Tatum's) Magic Mike Live, shoot guns like Dirty Harry, tour the Liberace Mansion, and bear the full brunt of late-stage capitalism or whatever. We had kind of a bad time in Vegas, a good time with each other, and a hell of a lot to say into all sorts of microphones. This isn't our longest episode ever, but it's definitely the one with the broadest range of audio quality! We hope you enjoy it. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

  • S3 · E36
    July 17 · 2 hr 5 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 36: Let Them All Talk (2020) with Veronica Phillips

    All aboard the LET THEM ALL TALK episode! Hot off of all the fun they had making THE LAUNDROMAT, Soderbergh and Meryl Streep teamed up again for a largely improvised movie about three old friends taking a boat ride with one of their nephews. And it's...great?! Joining us on the main feed is our good pal, writer and High Femme editor Veronica Phillips! We chat about letting women over 70 talk about their experiences, the inherent narcissism of creativity, going Wiest Mode, and a whole lot about BOOK CLUB (2018). We've been making jokes about covering this movie but that's because we didn't realize it's actually kind of a banger. We're stupid! Good thing Veronica is smart, though, that's why we asked her to be the guest. Fun ep! Further Reading: The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment by Philippa Snow Nightwood by Djuna Barnes George Smiley books by John le Carré read by Simon Vance "Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest are ready to Talk" by Tyler Aquilina: https://ew.com/movies/meryl-streep-candice-bergen-dianne-wiest-let-them-all-talk/ Further Viewing: CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Nichols, 1971) MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Malle, 1981) ADAPTATION. (Jonze, 2002) BOOK CLUB (Holderman, 2018) Follow Veronica Phillips: https://x.com/vnickyy/ https://hifemmes.substack.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • July 10 · 8 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Leatherheads (2008)

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. A comedy script about the early days of pro football followed Steven Soderbergh like a shadow for over a decade until George Clooney finally directed it himself, hot off the critical success of GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. It was also an important early major film role for TV star and CIA asset John Krasinski. But was it worth the wait? And what's the deal with football and screwball comedies, like, politically or whatever? We take these questions and more straight into the dang end zone! As ever, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

  • S3 · E35
    July 3 · 1 hr 56 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 35: The Laundromat (2019) with Luke Savage

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: our episode on Soderbergh's 2019 Panama Papers infotainment film THE LAUNDROMAT. Joining us to parse this deeply odd "comedic" "look" into the mysterious world of offshore finance is co-host of the Michael & Us podcast and author of The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History, Luke Savage! Together we get to the bottom of Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns' decision to give the BIG SHORT treatment to Jake Bernstein's entirely unfunny nonfiction book Secrecy World, and find in the film a very familiar liberal disinterest in the transformative potential of moments like the Panama Papers leak. Great conversation, check it out (whether or not you've seen the pretty lousy movie)! Note: We had a small technical problem in the last 20 minutes or so, and our guest's audio quality is notably lower but still perfectly listenable for the end of the episode. We blame transnational gangs of malefactors. Further Reading: Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History by Luke Savage The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman "The Dirty Problems with Operation Car Wash" by Vincent Bevins: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/anti-corruption-crusades-paved-way-bolsonaro/596449/ "'Keep It Confidential': The Secret History of U.S. Involvement in Brazil's Scandal-Wracked Operation Car Wash" by Andrew Fishman, Natalia Viana, & Maryam Saleh: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-department-brazil-car-wash-lava-jato-international-treaty/ "Steven Soderbergh: On His New Film 'The Laundromat' And What The Panama Papers Teach Us" by Risa Sarachan: https://www.forbes.com/sites/risasarachan/2019/10/17/steven-soderbergh-on-his-new-film-the-laundromat-and-what-the-panama-papers-teach-us/ "Meryl Streep Says Financial Corruption in 'Laundromat' Is a 'Black-Hearted Joke'" by Ariston Anderson: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-2019-meryl-streep-steven-soderbergh-laundromat-1235958/ Further Viewing: THE INSIDER (Mann, 1999) WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS (Gibney, 2013) WILD TALES (Szifron, 2014) THE BIG SHORT (McKay, 2015) SPOTLIGHT (McCarthy, 2015) THE REPORT (Burns, 2019) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia, 2024) Follow Luke Savage: https://x.com/LukewSavage https://www.lukewsavage.com/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/michaelandus Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • June 26 · 8 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: COMMENTARY: Tightrope (1984)

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. It's commentary time once again, folks, and we thought we'd revisit the first time we talked about Louisiana and sex work on the show: the Clint Eastwood film TIGHTROPE! This sort-of-Richard Tuggle joint is almost as sweaty and nasty as the two guys talking over it, discussing the American giallo, cop sneakers, and hoisting oysters. Listen along with the film or just listen while you do whatever! Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • S3 · E34
    June 19 · 2 hr 4 min

    Soderbergh Ep. 34: High Flying Bird (2019)

    Roundball...talk?!?!?! That's right, it's the HIGH FLYING BIRD episode where we cover Soderbergh's second shot-on-iPhone feature, a 2019 direct-to-Netflix basketball lockout drama starring his old THE KNICK pal André Holland (and a totally different guy named Dr. Edwards). Join us for a great in-person (!) discussion of the intersections of sports, labor, race, and technology, and what exactly Soderbergh is trying to suggest he's really doing with this experimental distribution business. Plus we come up with some genuinely great names for basketball teams. Listen or we'll smoke you like the clown that you are! Further Reading: The Revolt of the Black Athlete by Harry Edwards Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler "Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook" by Lonnae O'Neal: https://andscape.com/features/harry-edwards-mexico-city-olympics-sports-activism-john-carlos-tommie-smith-1968/ "Michele Roberts vs. the NBA: Why the New Head of the Players Union Is a Hero for Progressive Sports Fans" by Will Leitch: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/11/michele-roberts-the-hero-of-progressive-sports.html "Steven Soderbergh on the High-Speed Production of High Flying Bird" by Brian Raftery: https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/steven-soderbergh-high-flying-production.html Further Viewing: JERRY MAGUIRE (Crowe, 1996) MONEYBALL (Miller, 2011) LOGAN LUCKY (Soderbergh, 2017) UNSANE (Soderbergh, 2018) THE LAST DANCE (Hehir, 2020) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

  • June 12 · 9 min

    PATREON PREVIEW: Mr. Majestyk (1974)

    This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Originally written for Clint Eastwood by friend of the show Elmore Leonard, Richard Fleischer's 1974 Charles Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK is that classic action film setup: a melon farmer accidentally ends up in the middle of a mob hitman's prison transport escape and teams up with a beautiful migrant labor organizer to save his crop. It's a hell of a lot of fun, and probably should have been Patreon episode 3, but here we are. We talk Bronson, small grower economics, and a whole lot about the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and Cesar Chavez. Good ep! Roger Ebert's profile of Bronson: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/charles-bronson-its-just-that-i-dont-like-to-talk-very-much Paul Koslo interview: https://iamlegendarchive.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_10.html Review of Christian Paiz's Strikers of Coachella: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/coachella-united-farm-workers/ Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2213-trampling-out-the-vintage As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

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