The Moon Under Water: A Pubcast with Kelly Daniels and Steve Jones

Kelly Daniels with Steve Jones
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The Moon Under Water: A Pubcast with Kelly Daniels and Steve Jones

Pull up a barstool and join us in George Orwell's favorite pub.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: A Racy and Transcendent Travel Novel

    Steve just returned from a work trip in India, and Kelly has been going to Venice every summer for years, so why not discuss a kind of groundbreaking and fun autofictional novel about the extremes of excess and deprivation? If you haven't read Geoff Dyer's book in question, get on it. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/29/jeff-venice-geoff-dyer-review https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Iyer-t.html

    1h 15m

  2. 5 DAYS AGO · BONUS

    Jeepers Creepers: Mickey 17 Doesn't Quite Work

    Jones and Daniels are on the same page in this peaceable episode. The movie started strong and fell apart, the inverse of the convo, which improves with age (and beer).

    1h 21m

  3. 5 MAR

    "I had you wrong, Fletch baby": A Pair of Stories by Robert Stone

    Steve doesn't like the story about the alcoholic poet who is brought against his will up to see the volcano. The volcano, and the poet, and the other characters, and the situation, are kind of metaphors for this or that, and Steve doesn't like metaphors. Steve does like the other story though, the non-metaphorical thriller about a bunch of doped out amateur drug smugglers who are just not really pulling it off on their sailboat in the Caribbean Sea. Kelly likes all the stories in Robert Stone's "book of a lifetime," Bear and His Daughter, but then again, Kelly's a professor, and as such, unreliable and unrelatable. Whether you're a Stone superfan or never heard of the guy, there's plenty here for you in this contentious episode. https://www.christianitytoday.com/1997/11/telling-america-its-nightmares/ https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/20/reviews/970420.20wood2t.html https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/bear-and-his-daughter-by-robert-stone-book-of-a-lifetime-a6867281.html

    1h 8m

  4. 19 FEB

    Papa Hem's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "A Day's Wait"

    A little kid has a grownup day, and a big kid enjoys a few minutes of adulthood before... Well, no spoilers in this description. Join the brohams as they discuss the king broham himself. Check out this entertaining and informative video two nice guys sent Dude One and Dude Two while recording at headquarters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlxEKOscu0M

    1h 4m

  5. 5 FEB

    What Is the Deal, with the Seinfeld Finale?

    Steve wanted to talk about one of the most maligned episodes in sitcom history, and who was Kelly to disagree? Tune in for a rollicking discussion that challenges the consensus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Finale_(Seinfeld) https://screenrant.com/seinfeld-finale-ending-explained-hated-good-reason/ https://www.netflix.com/title/70153373

    58 min

  6. 29 JAN · BONUS

    "He put his disease in me": A Tribute to David Lynch's Masterpiece, Blue Velvet

    Back in the day, Lynch helped usher Daniels from metal meathead to art fart--not that you can't be both. Jones didn't know much about Lynch before recording but was game to learn more. To put it another way, Daniels started the night with a can of PBR, and Jones had a nice cold Heineken. Now it's dark.

    1h 19m

  7. 22 JAN

    Filmmaker Harry Walker on Rutger Hauer's The Hitcher

    The bros invite another bro, filmmaker Harry Walker, to talk about 1986's The Hitcher. But first, Kelly provides a report from academia, the inside scoop about the university chancellor who got fired for making and posting porn movies of him and his wife. A rollicking convo ensues. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3512053/ https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-hitcher-1986/

    1h 14m

  8. 8 JAN

    Minority Report: Spielberg Gives Dystopia a Try

    The script is flipped from last time. Kelly doesn't like to mix magic with his sci-fi; Steve just thinks it's an enjoyable movie. Without any love in his heart, Kelly turns to smut and DEI jokes. It ain't pretty. From Slate: Whose idea was it to turn Minority Report into a mushy declaration of humanism? It ends up as less of a warning about an Orwellian police state than a protest that Pre-Cogs are people, too. It's Dick-less. Ebert's 4/4 star review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/minority-report-2002

    1h 10m
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