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The Spectacle
A podcast for people who like movies and hate cops. Every...I dont know, month or so you can get captured by the spectacle and listen to some some anti-authoritarian freaks get together to jib jab about video games, shows, comics, and anything under the umbrella of nerd shit using that as a springboard to get silly in ways that will sound bad in court proceedings later (all things said on the podcast are parody and in minecraft, nice try FBI) Formerly The Anarcho-Geek Power Hour. A production…
Episodes
The SpectacleRETURN OF THE SPOOK-TACLE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRES
Happy HallowSCREAM boys, ghouls and nonbi-scary’s! Mckenzie and Io are talking about Texas chainsaw Massacres 1 and 2. Two movies of distilled human…
The SpectacleCamp Miasma
MCKENZIE, REALLY, IO, AND ROSIE MARX GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT A LOT OF TOPICS THAT VAUGELY ORBIT JANE SCHOENBRUN’S NEW FLICK “SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA”…
The SpectacleTHE ODYSSEY
Tuck and McKenzie rejoin the pod to talk about a summer blockbuster 3000 years in the making. Chris Nolans The Odyssey! Only one of us liked it even a little…
The SpectacleWe Love Boosters
Beau Patrick joins McKenzie and io to talk about I love Boosters. The new surrealist veneration of the noble shoplifter from Boots Riley that has a dialectical…
The SpectacleHow Disney fucked everything
McKenzie and Io talk with friend of the pod and genuine movie pervert Vicky Osterweil about the history of cinema, copyright, and how that fucking mouse wound…
The SpectacleResistance is Fertile: an Anarcho-Trekkie Crossover
Episode Summary This time on The Spectacle, we have the final frontier we've all been waiting for, a crossover episode with Resistance is Fertile, the…
The SpectacleRequiem for a weeb: the Chainsaw Man episode
Resident anime scholar Eren K Wilson teaches us about the history of anime and we talk a lot about a horny child hobo turned dog-fused, tit crazed, blood…
The SpectacleRevolution the musical: Wicked for okay
the entire world was devastated to hear that Wicked 2: the Wickening did not receive a single Oscar nomination. But it received something much more important…
The SpectacleThe state of da movies address
New year new pod. McKenzie and Io are rooting around in the media pile 2025 left us to bring you just right AND too hot takes about Eddington, One Battle After…
The SpectacleFRANKENSTEIN
Shuli Branson joins Io to discuss Frankenstein! We talk about Mary Shelley’s cool life and legacy and Guillermo Del Toro’s (secret egg) take on her story. We…
The SpectacleANDOR II
Margaret Killjoy, Hazel Acacia and Io Asunder talk about everyone’s favorite allegory for Vietnam (Star Wars) Specifically the only good Star Wars, Andor. We…
The SpectacleIt's a . . . Decameronomenon!
Episode Summary A deadly disease strikes, and everyone is ill-equipped to handle it; a group of young people is stuck inside trying to escape, and they feel…
The SpectacleThe Spectacle Goes Catholic
Episode Summary McKenzie and Io chin wag about Conclave, the two popes and Catholicism and make a case for why Conclave should be ushered in gay film canon (a…
The SpectacleDark Housewife-ification
In the first of a series of over-analyzing underappreciated streaming series, Ellery, Robin and Miriam discuss Kevin Can Fuck Himself, a sitcom about…
The SpectacleA New Book by Margaret Killjoy
Episode Summary This isn't a real episode. It's an advertisement, but it's an advertisement for a really cool thing, a new new book by Margaret Killjoy that…
The SpectaclePORN: the podcast
Carta Monir is here talking about her work making and archiving DIY queer porn from throughout the ages. TW for lots of stuff the stuff that comes up with smut…
The SpectacleRevolution: The Musical 2
Continuing our ongoing series of podcasts run by theater dorks Miriam, Inmn and Rosza are gabbing about Wicked. Some sort of prequel to the wizard of Oz…
The SpectacleNOSFERADUDES
Nosferatu is a movie about poly drama and how doing real estate is evil Rosie Knight and returning champ Mckenzie talk with Io on the new vision of horror from…
The SpectacleCops are such silly little guys haha
We talk about Hot Fuzz and Io tries to watch another copmedy for this episode but honestly got so bored so it’s just a lot of hot fuzz talk
The SpectacleMore like Bored of the Rings amirite?
Inmn, Kallie and Io talk about The Rings of Power and what a piece of shit it is. Also Peter Jacksons trilogy, not respecting your audience, Tolkien’s…
The SpectacleThe SpOoOoktacle!
creeking doors do you hear that? rattling chains oh no! you know what that means the sound of a mummies curse its hallowtide again and we got our resident…
The SpectacleRevolution! The Musical
Episode Summary On this episode of the Spectacle, you no longer have to wait one day more--otherwise known as tomorrow--to know which musicals are…
The Spectaclebrat
It was hot brat summer until suddenly it wasn’t. Can we still love charli xcx and be cool? Bea can be found on twitter at @beaflowers This show is published by…
The SpectacleI SAW THE TV GLOW
Live from the after-after-after party of the Constellation Anarchy-fest in beautiful Montreal Bea, Rob and Io convene an emergency pod after not being able to…
The SpectacleSecret third places
We talk with old pal Dan Abbot of Bobby joe Ebola about Geekfest. The freaky music festival organized by literal children in the bay area in the 90s borne out…
The SpectacleD U N E
Is Dune anti-colonial? Can the white savior myth be satirized? Is Gurney Halleck my friend? Kallie (@itsametaphorfordeath), Producer Aaron, and Io (@bum.lung)…
The SpectacleThe only good (fictional) cop
Vicky Osterweil (In defense of Looting), Miriam, and Io chose their champions and play a game making the case for the best fictional cop and how guilty we feel…
The SpectacleCozy Games/Night in the Woods
Bea, Robin and Io put on their feetie jim-jams and gather round the duraflame to talk about their favorite winter time cozy games. Io goes on at length about…
The SpectacleThe Green Knight - The Anti-civ Xmas classic
Inmn, Wren and Io wring in the holidays by talking about the greatest Christmas movies about a dumb guy who sucks picking a fight with an earth elemental, The…
The Spectacle2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS
VVRRROOOOMMM!!! Host of Gender Reveal Tuck Woodstock guests to talk about the Fast and Furious franchise and the book "2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS: an anthology of…
The SpectacleBARBENHEINTURE BROS.
This episode is so gender. Just chock a block of gender in this one. Gare Davis and Molly B'Damn are ready to do...gender. Host Info Io can be found on Twitter…
The SpectacleVideo Game Zines
Bea and I0 talk about getting into video games, tiny games, games you can run on a shitty laptop, and the alternative gaming narrative that games like that can…
The SpectacleRadio 66.6 Takeover: Sex Work in Media
Episode Summary Molly, Annie, and Lizxnn talk about a lot of movies. They talk about representation of sex workers across many different medias and…
The SpectacleLast of Us
Episode Summary Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @Bum_lung or on Instagram @Bum.Lung or you can find shirts and patches that they make on Etsy at…
The SpectacleApocalypse....Soon?
The first recorded episode of AGPH from earlier in the year! 3 of the Strangers gang chin wag about their favorite apocalypse media, what fictional universe…
The SpectacleAndor + Rogue One
Io and Margaret go through the Star Wars narratives, Andor, and Rogue One, and talk about where they overlap historically with real resistance movements, what…