Make the Case

Make The Case Podcast
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Make the Case

A podcast to help you fall in love with movies all over again. Each week, Conrad Rothbaum and his co-host ShwinnyPooh come on to "Make the Case" -- that is, to put forth a hot take, argument or simply a new perspective -- about a movie they love. For questions or comments please email us at makethecasepodcast@gmail.com and we might read your email on the air! You can also call us and leave us a voicemail at (818) 538-4966 -- we want to hear from you, and may play your voicemail on the podcast! Follow the show on Twitter at @makethecaseshow. Co-hosts Conrad and Shwin are also on Twitter as @csroth and @shwinnypooh respectively, but if you follow them, be prepared for many, many tweets about the New York Knicks on your feed.

  1. JAN 1

    Episode 33: The Best Films of 2023 with Rebecca Goldstein, Dylan Visvikis and Simon Schiller

    Join Conrad, Shwin and special guests Rebecca Goldstein, Simon Schiller and Dylan Visvikis as they break down their favorite films of the year. We laughed! We cried! We blew up a pipeline.Please note that while we try to avoid specific spoilers, if you want to go into these films completely fresh, you may want to wait to listen to this pod or to avoid the specific segment on the film in question.Below is a list of of the films we discussed with handy timestamps so that you may skip around:May...

    1h 51m

  2. 08/04/2023

    Episode 32: Kubrick Part III: Dr. Strangelove

    ...OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE POD!Today, we make this pod short and sweet, as we talk Stanley Kubrick's nuclear panic satire, DR. STRANGELOVE!Topics include: 1) What is the corollary today for fear of nuclear war in 1965; 2) Are we more afraid of atom bombs or bodily fluid theft; 3) did we want Peter Sellers to play a fourth role? (Of course we did).If you liked this podcast, please rate and review it (5 stars please), and click the subscribe button to get next week'...

    38 min

  3. 06/30/2023

    Episode 31: Kubrick Part II: Spartacus and Lolita

    THEY TRAINED THEM TO PODCAST FOR THEIR PLEASURE... BUT THEY TRAINED THEM A LITTLE TOO WELL!! // HOW DID THEY EVER MAKE A PODCAST OF LOLITA?In this episode, we continue our analysis of Kubrick's career with the "Least Kubrick" of Kubrick's films: Kirk Douglas' SPARTACUS and Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA! Topics include: SPARTACUS' tangled web of inconsistent subtext; the historical significance of SPARTACUS in breaking Hollywood's communist blacklist; an unexpected analysis of Brad Pitt...

    1h 8m

  4. 05/26/2023

    Episode 30: Kubrick Part I: The Killing & Paths of Glory

    IN ALL ITS FURY AND VIOLENCE… LIKE NO OTHER PODCAST SINCE “BLANK CHECK” AND “THE BIG PICTURE”!This week, we kick off our most ambitious series yet: a retrospective on the films of Stanley Kubrick, one by one, from the very beginning, INCLUDING BARRY LYNDON (that sound you just heard was Shwin crying in anguish). We start with Kubrick’s first two studio pictures, THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY.Topics include: the historical context in which Kubrick came to self-actualize as an “auteur;” which ...

    1h 21m

  5. 05/12/2023

    Episode 29: JFK

    HE'S A PODCAST CO-HOST. HE WILL RISK HIS LIFE, THE LIVES OF HIS FAMILY, EVERYTHING HE HOLDS DEAR FOR THE ONE THING HE HOLDS SACRED... THE TRUTH.This week, we finish off our Oliver Stone trilogy with his operatic paranoiac JFK. Released in 1991, this film tells you that if you think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, you're just not asking the right questions. Who benefits from the most epic conspiracy theory propaganda ever propagated by Hollywood? You, the consumer of course!!Topics include: Wha...

    1h 11m

  6. 04/28/2023

    Episode 28: Primer

    WHAT HAPPENS IF IT ACTUALLY PODS?This week, we loop back to the 2004 cult classic time travel drama from Shane Carruth, PRIMER. Famously shot for $7000 (we have some thoughts about that) and supposedly containing enough information to articulate its own plot (we have some more thoughts about that), the film is a taut, psychological thriller about the deterioration of a friendship, and we go back to interrogate its existence.Did we understand this movie? Maybe? Did you? Why are you asking so m...

    1h 5m

  7. 04/14/2023

    Episode 27: Wall Street

    EVERY POD HAS A PRICE.This week, we continue our Oliver Stone series (to Conrad's chagrin) with Stone's 1987 opus on greed, which takes place on a very well-known street in downtown Manhattan.Is greed good? Is Charlie Sheen okay? Should Martin Sheen have played Gordon Gekko? Should Oliver Stone have been a stockbroker instead of a filmmaker? Let's discuss.If you liked this podcast, please rate and review it (5 stars please), and click the subscribe button to get next week's episode.What’s you...

    1h 12m

  8. 03/17/2023

    Episode 26: Atomic Blonde with Lester Lee

    In this pod, we bring in special guest Lester Lee of Dead Seriousness dot com to help us tear down this wall: How is this movie an interesting intersection of Fury Road and John Wick? What makes Charlize Theron so compelling as an action star? And what the hell is the plot of this movie? (Spoiler: neither of us have any idea).If you liked this podcast, please rate and review it (5 stars please), and click the subscribe button to get next week's episode. And if you liked what you heard from Le...

    1h 10m
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A podcast to help you fall in love with movies all over again. Each week, Conrad Rothbaum and his co-host ShwinnyPooh come on to "Make the Case" -- that is, to put forth a hot take, argument or simply a new perspective -- about a movie they love. For questions or comments please email us at makethecasepodcast@gmail.com and we might read your email on the air! You can also call us and leave us a voicemail at (818) 538-4966 -- we want to hear from you, and may play your voicemail on the podcast! Follow the show on Twitter at @makethecaseshow. Co-hosts Conrad and Shwin are also on Twitter as @csroth and @shwinnypooh respectively, but if you follow them, be prepared for many, many tweets about the New York Knicks on your feed.

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  • Creator
    Make The Case Podcast
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2023 Make the Case
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