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Updated 10 Aug
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Updated 5 Jun
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10 Aug

Jaws with Ian Nathan

Jaws is host Eric Vespe's favorite movie of all time, so it's only fitting that we get the nerdiest possible deep dive into the 1975 blockbuster with special guest Ian Nathan. Ian's an author and documentarian who has produced books on The Coen Brothers, Tim Burton, and Guillermo del Toro as well as produced truly epic documentaries on John Carpenter's The Thing and James Cameron's Aliens. His next project up is Jaws Explored, a documentary that goes into the minutiae of the film, its legacy, and why it's just so damned good. It's hard to get Vespe to shut up about Jaws, so brace yourself for an uber-nerdy conversation that discusses the three leading characters, the reality behind the making of the movie, and a deep dive into the color theory of the film. More information on Jaws Explored can be found at www.jawsexplored.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Jun

Disclosure Day Review with Drew McWeeny

There is a brand new Steven Spielberg movie out in theaters this weekend so of course we had to dive into it on The Spiel. Vespe is joined by his longtime friend and ex-Ain't It Cool colleague Drew McWeeny to dissect, as best they can, Spielberg's Disclosure Day, which could very well be his final cinematic statement on the topic of extra-terrestrial beings. The conversation begins with a spoiler-free discussion before diving into more spoilery specifics. This chat is definitely intended for those who have already seen the movie and want to hear some detailed thoughts on the film. What did they like? What didn't work for them? And did you notice the Jaws easter egg? Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, and Colin Firth and is out in theaters now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Jun

Ron Howard

Oscar-winning superstar director Ron Howard talks to his former New World Pictures colleague Joe Dante and co-host Josh Olson about the movies that made him and continue to impress him! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Limit Up (1989) Grand Theft Auto (1977) Infested (2002) The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) Hollywood Blvd. (1976) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) Citizen Kane (1941) Rush (2013) Curious George (2006) *One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) - 24:00 Amadeus (1984) American Graffiti (1974) 12 Angry Men (1957) The Howling (1981) The ’Burbs (1989) *The Graduate (1967) - 31:49 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Romeo and Juliet (1968) White Heat (1949) The Searchers (1956) *The Apartment (1960) - 39:26 Some Like It Hot (1959) Sunset Blvd. (1950) Night Shift (1982) Splash (1984) Parenthood (1989) Silver Streak (1976) Foul Play (1978) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) *As Good As It Gets (1997) - 44: 37 All The President’s Men (1976) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Network (1976) *Schindler’s List (1993) - 49:00 Amistad (1997) The Color Purple (1985) Jurassic Park (1993) Cape Fear (1991) Apollo 13 (1995) Frost/Nixon (2008) *Dog Day Afternoon (1976) - 53:41 *Das Boot (1981) - 56:43 Eight Days A Week (2016) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Unforgiven (1992) *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 63:05 It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) It Happened One Night (1934) *A Boy And His Dog (1975) - 70:22 David and Lisa (1962) Mad Max (1979) The Road Warrior (1981) Backrooms (2026) Obsession (2026) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Michael Curtiz Ron and Clint Howard’s memoir The Boys (2021) Rance Howard Jean Speegle Howard The University of Oklahoma Dennis Weaver Gary Cooper Bruce Dern Harry Dean Stanton Vincente Minnelli The Andy Griffith Show TV series (1960-67) Samuel Fuller TFH Guru Allan Arkush TFH Guru Roger Corman New World Pictures Our latest RZA podcast Imagine Entertainment Brian Grazer Curious George TV series (2006-22) Milos Forman Danny DeVito Christopher Lloyd Kirk Douglas Michael Douglas Haskell Wexler Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel by Ken Kesey (1962) Gary Sinise Death of a Salesman play by Arthur Miller (1949) Nathan Lane Lee J. Cobb Henry Fonda Mister Roberts play by Joshua Logan (1948) John Ford The ’Burbs TV series (2026- ) Mike Nichols Robert Surtees Franco Zeffirelli The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Sidney Hickox Warner Bros. Pictures French New Wave Andy Griffith The Cornell Theatre in Burbank, CA Charles Martin Smith Happy Days TV series (1974-84) Penny Marshall Billy Crystal Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel Thomas L. Miller Glenn Close James L. Brooks Cliff Robertson Ned Beatty Steven Spielberg Michael Jordan Peter Morgan The Crown TV series (2016-23) Tom Hanks Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet (1995) On Directing Film book by David Mamet (1991) Bill Connor Dog Day Afternoon play by Stephen Adly Guirgis (2026) Wolfgang Peterson Ringo Starr Paul McCartney Meryl Streep Gene Hackman Clint Eastwood James Stewart Frank Capra Sam Rosen John Carradine D.W. Griffith Don Knotts Sheldon Leonard The Beverly Hillbillies TV series (1962-71) Petticoat Junction TV series (1963-70) Anson Williams Bobby Sherman Linda Purl L.Q. Jones John Cassavetes Alvy Moore George Miller Harlan Ellison Jason Robards Robby the Robot Don Johnson Techniscope SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
30 Jun

Will Tracy Returns!

Screenwriter Will Tracy (BUGONIA, THE MENU, SUCCESSION) returns to walk Josh and Joe through movies that themselves have been cancelled or have been made with a cancelled person. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Menu (2022) Bugonia (2025) Heathers (1988) Song of the South (1946) Jezebel (1938) The Little Foxes (1941) The Princess and the Frog (2009) Treasure Island (1950) The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) The Usual Suspects (1995) Get Him to the Greek (2010) Casablanca (1942) Clownhouse (1989) Powder (1995) Jeepers Creepers (2001) Boys Town (1938) Stand by Me (1985) Lord of the Flies (1960) Bound (1996) An Officer and a Spy (2019) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Match Point (2005) Manhattan (1979) The Two Jakes (1990) Chinatown (1974) The Godfather Part III (1990) Knife in the Water (1962) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Repulsion (1965) Predator (1987) Die Hard (1988) The Hunt for Red October (1990) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) Rollerball (1975) Rollerball (2002) The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) The 13th Warrior (1999) I Love You, Daddy (2017) Blue Jasmine (2013) One Battle After Another (2025) Life is Beautiful (1997) Crash (2005) Green Book (2018) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon! The Hollywood Food Coalition Succession TV series (2018-23) The Onion The Academy Awards Stavros Halkias Wikipedia Daniel Waters William Hurt Our Thomas Jane podcast episode Disney Dalton S. Reymond Maurice Rapf Morton Grant The Hays Code Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA James Baskett M*A*S*H* TV series (1972-83) Br'er Rabbit Elliott Gould Bill Cosby “The Devil and Daniel Webster” short story by Stephen Vincent Benét (1936) Kevin Spacey Bryan Singer Russell Brand Diddy Jonah Hill Christopher McQuarrie Humphrey Bogart Richard Wagner Woody Allen Roman Polanski Victor Salva Francis Ford Coppola American Zoetrope The Wachowski sisters Colombo TV series (1971-78, 1989-2003) Johnny Cash Donald Pleasence Ruth Gordon The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Breaking Bad TV series (2007-13) Robert Towne Jack Nicholson The Dreyfus affair Sofia Coppola Winona Ryder The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood book by Sam Wasson (2020) Peter Bogdanovich Polly Platt Andrew Hickey’s The History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast “Waterloo Sunset” song by The Kinks (1967) Ray Davies The Beatles John Lennon Yoko Ono “I’m Not Angry” song by Elvis Costello (1977) John McTiernan Anthony Pellicano Chris Klein LL Cool J Sean Connery Sam Neill Stellan Skarsgard Alec Baldwin Antonio Banderas Louis C.K. Louie TV series (2010-15) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV series (2014-26) John Malkovich Apropos of Nothing memoir by Woody Allen (2020) Dane Cook Roberto Benigni Steven Spielberg Jerry Lewis Nick Vallelonga Al FrankenSpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
15/12/2023

Shochikubai: Pine, Bamboo, Plum and Samurai Shade

Shochikubai means "pine, bamboo, plum" and are considered the three winter friends. You'll find them in New Year decorations as well as another interesting and surprising place. I'll tell more on today's show. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] Uncanny Japan is author Thersa Matsuura. Her other shows are Uncanny Robot Podcast and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out her books including The Carp-Faced Boy by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit Patreon. Discord: https://discord.gg/XdMZTzmyUb Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura Website: https://www.uncannyjapan.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UncannyJapan Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/uncannyjapan.bsky.social Mastodon: https://famichiki.jp/@UncannyJapan Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyJapan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncannyjapan/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyjapan/ Buy Me a Coffee (one-time contribution): https://buymeacoffee.com/uncannyjapan Credits Intro music by Julyan Ray Matsuura Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16/09/2024

Wynter Mitchell on Catch Me If You Can

We celebrate the final episode of The Spiel with Scott Wampler as co-host with this rowdy chat with our dear friend, podcaster, and advisor to the stars Wynter Mitchell about a top tier Spielberg entry: Catch Me If You Can. This is a special episode in that it is the very first thing we recorded for the show. This was our test run to see if a podcast about Spielberg's movies would work and two hours later we knew we had something cool on our hands. With Scott's passing it's only fitting that every single thing he recorded gets its time in the sun, especially when the chat is as alternately chaotic and insightful as this one turned out to be. Enjoy the chat and tip a can of White Claw for Pop-Pop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23/09/2024

Live At Fantastic Fest: Nacho Vigalondo on Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Spiel rings in its very first live show at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. Vespe is joined by guest co-host Nick Preuher (co-founder of the Found Footage Fest) and special guest Nacho Vigalondo (director of Timecrimes, Colossal, and Daniela Forever) to talk about Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Does Close Encounters act as a spiritual sequel to Jaws? What about shared DNA with David Lynch's Eraserhead? Nacho seems to think so! So enjoy this very special live recording! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
02/09/2024

Greg Mottola on Used Cars

Director Greg Mottola (Superbad, Paul, and Confess, Fletch) joins Wampler and Vespe to talk about a very early outing for Steven Spielberg as producer: Used Cars. Written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, produced by Spielberg and John Milius, and directed by Zemeckis, this raunchy, cynical, absurd early '80s comedy starring Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, and Gerrit Graham seems made in a lab to be one of Scott Wampler's favorite movies. But... he didn't take to it. We dive into why that is as well as trade off Larry David impersonations, find out the status of Mottola's Fletch sequel, and dive into some of our favorite scenes from the movie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31/01/2024

The All-powerful Five Elements and You

In Japan there are two types of Five Elements, the gogyo and the godai and you can find them all throughout Japanese culture-in tea ceremony, martial arts, acupuncture, herbalism, esoteric Buddhism, and even in cemeteries. [This description contains Amazon affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.] Uncanny Japan is author Thersa Matsuura. Check out her books including The Carp-Faced Boy by clicking on the Amazon link. If you'd like to help support the podcast and have a bedtime story read to you monthly, please visit Patreon. Discord: https://discord.gg/XdMZTzmyUb Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura Website: https://www.uncannyjapan.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UncannyJapan Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/uncannyjapan.bsky.social Mastodon: https://famichiki.jp/@UncannyJapan Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyJapan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncannyjapan/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyjapan/ Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Thersa-Matsuura/e/B002CWZ73Y/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1500180689&sr=8-1 Buy Me a Coffee (one-time contribution): https://buymeacoffee.com/uncannyjapan Credits Intro music by Julyan Ray Matsuura Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 May

Army Remote Viewer Looks Inside of a UFO, Consciousness & Disclosure | Maj. Paul Smith PhD

Project Stargate remote viewer Major Paul Smith, PhD returns! Get access to dozens or pieces of Patron/Member's only content! https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership The U.S. military spends decades training psychic spies to pierce the veil of time and space. In this mind meld, we sit down with former Army Remote Viewer Maj. Paul Smith, PhD, a veteran of the legendary Project Stargate. Paul pulls back the curtain on the intersection of non-local consciousness, deep-black military operations, and the true nature of the Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) and the phenomenon. -JUST ANNOUNCED: Join Michael and Chris Ramsay of Area 52 on the It's Probably Nothing Tour: https://www.itsprobablynothing.com/ -Join Michael, and dozens of other speakers at Contact in the Desert this year! https://contactinthedesert.com/ (Use code eyedrops10 for 10% off!) In this one: * The Telepathic Warning: The terrifying inside story of a secret military session tasked with locating the Ark of the Covenant, and the non-human entities that issued a direct psychic threat . * Inside a UAP Craft: How a remote viewing project successfully diagrammed the interior mechanics, propulsion, and seating layout of a non-human vehicle . * The Truth About the Gateway Process: The real, unclassified history of Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonald and the infamous document that attempted to bridge physics and out-of-body experiences . * Why They Fear Us: Ingo Swann’s chilling theory that advanced entities are actively attempting to suppress human psychic potential because our innate consciousness capabilities threaten them . * Paul’s thoughts on his mentor, Ingo SwannThe "Transduction" of Reality: How the human brain functions as a cosmic transducer rather than a mere receiver of consciousness. Links for Dr. Paul Smith: Website: https://rviewer.com/ Books: https://a.co/d/8AMx2Ly Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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