web02.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:29:35 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Hollywood” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/hollywood Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:00:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 84: Why Do Movies Suck Now? ft. Will Tavlin https://exhaust.fireside.fm/84 63eaadc7-af0a-4b03-b20d-f2cc2e74ab31 Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Will Tavlin joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live in. They talk about the insanity of the original multiplex model of screening, why digital is so hard to archive, the deadness of major blockbuster films, the importance of forming aesthetic communities to preserve cultural memory, and more! 55:11 yes Will Tavlin (https://twitter.com/wtavlin) joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live in. They talk about the insanity of the original multiplex model of screening, why digital is so hard to archive, the deadness of major blockbuster films, the importance of forming aesthetic communities to preserve cultural memory, and more! Digital Rocks: How Hollywood Killed Celluloid (https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-42/essays/digital-rocks/) by Will Tavlin, n+1 Closing Song: Storyteller by Broadside (https://broadsideva.bandcamp.com/track/storyteller). george lucas, digital film, marvel, star wars, hollywood, david fincher, netflix, democracy, monopoly, movie theaters, film, celluloid, dasha Will Tavlin joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live in. They talk about the insanity of the original multiplex model of screening, why digital is so hard to archive, the deadness of major blockbuster films, the importance of forming aesthetic communities to preserve cultural memory, and more!

Digital Rocks: How Hollywood Killed Celluloid by Will Tavlin, n+1

Closing Song: Storyteller by Broadside.

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Digital Rocks: How Hollywood Killed Celluloid by Will Tavlin, n+1

Closing Song: Storyteller by Broadside.

]]> Episode 36: I Went Down to the Piraeus Yesterday with Robert Downey Jr.: Watching RDJ's Cocaine '92 Election Doc ft. Josh Bregman https://exhaust.fireside.fm/36 56174f75-6f8e-49de-98bb-49eb3ec51272 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:45:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party. They discuss what has and hasn't changed in the last thirty years. 1:37:50 yes Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApvPKrHA37g). They discuss the NGO Industrial Complex, why the culture war is built to be endless, the handoff from the New Left to Gen X, and how RDJ accidentally made Twitter: The Movie in 1992. Subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) for two extra exclusive episodes a month. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep36bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood x Young Thug - Power (KEIFERGR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music) clinton, bill clinton, democratic party, pat buchanan, robert downey jr, rdj, politics, american politics, history, culture, oliver stone, mike ruppert, hollywood, george bush Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party. They discuss the NGO Industrial Complex, why the culture war is built to be endless, the handoff from the New Left to Gen X, and how RDJ accidentally made Twitter: The Movie in 1992.

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Closing Song: System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood x Young Thug - Power (KEIFERGR33N Remix)

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Subscribe to our Patreon for two extra exclusive episodes a month.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood x Young Thug - Power (KEIFERGR33N Remix)

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