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One Good Thing

Paul Salt, Paul Goodmanogtpod.podbean.com
Every Tuesday the Pauls take a cinematic flop and find the one good thing about it - because no film is worthless!
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Episode 202. The Last Days of American Crime (feat. That Horror Chick)

Katy, our friend and also host of the 'Have You Ever Heard Of?' podcast, ceases to be at least one of these things this week as she comes on t'show to discuss the Netflix original Last Days of American Crime. I HATE YOU, KATY. Featuring: Go Gumblefuck, no reasons, Not Rafe Spall, Not Charlie Hunnam, Not Hot, Not Swank, new jingles, pain challenge, Brick the Hero, too busy to harass and the Cop Book. NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! Goodman is appearing in the new season of Role To Cast, the Baby Be...

Jan 12, 20211 hr 10 minEp. 277

Episode 201. Sucker Punch

Happy New Bloody Year you absolute fools! Starting strong with a recommendation from the Almighty Nell, the Pauls are plunging crotch-first into Zak Snyder guffotron Sucker Punch. Start as you mean to go on, my dear old nan always said. But not how Zak Snyder starts things because Jesus might be watching. Featuring: multi-layered cinephile, vag up!, t-shirt idea, BYOBS, Tyler Bates bollocks and a joke that hides how upset he is. ***** NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! Goodman is appearing in the new...

Jan 06, 20211 hr 6 minEp. 276

Episode 200: Episode 200!

Against all odds and legal advice/warnings, the Pauls have reached an almighty 200 episodes! Join them as they reflect on the year, talk a bit about film and hear from the guests they had along the way, specifically the one good thing from their worst movies of all time. There are jokes, too! Big ones! Featuring: navel gazing and bags of wank. NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! Goodman is appearing in the new season of Role To Cast, the Baby Bearders' frankly awesome TTRPG podcast, in a campaign in t...

Dec 30, 20201 hr 33 minEp. 275

Another Naughty Christmas Treat

Shhhhh! Don't let the family know you've snuck away to spend some naughty time with your favourite Pauls! This time we're having a festive tuck in to some dubbed 70s pornography. What wonders await! https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtpod https://twitter.com/ogtpod We now have a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ogtpod - sign up for exclusive content for as little as $1 a month. Goodman's soundtracks for Role To Cast's Cyberpunk ...

Dec 25, 202020 minEp. 274

Episode 199. Home Alone 2

Happy Winterval, y'all! The Paulboyz finish up their Christmas run by looking at the much-maligned Christmas Classic Sequel Home Alone 2, asking important questions such as 'why did they repeat this bit?' over and over and over and over again until the words lose all meaning. Featuring: Daniel Stern's strange contract, Rob Schneider?, steaming pizza, good smooch use, sex lessons for kids and an Adonis and his scumville hotel for jerks. NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! NEW NEWS! Goodman is appearing in the ne...

Dec 22, 20201 hr 3 minEp. 273

Episode 198. A Christmas Wedding Tail (Hallmark Special)

Yo ho ho and a bottle of fun, it's Christmas season (still) and the Pauls are dedicating their podcast (still going) to the bloody holiday I just mentioned! This week the Pauls open up a whole new avenue of sausages and gnomes as they scrape at the film of saccharine separating them from the Hallmark Christmas world – a world where women are kept in their place by lazy scripts and, well, that's about all we gleaned from it. The one good thing about A Christmas Wedding Tail! Featuring: Space John...

Dec 15, 20201 hr 1 minEp. 272

Episode 197. Surviving Christmas

The decorations go up on December 1st and the Pauls podcast Christmas for the whole bloody month apparently – this is week the second, and we're megacelebrating with Surviving Christmas starring Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini. Don't tell us we're not constantly giving. Because that would be inaccurate. Featuring: Third-degree Faye, Spongepaul Squarepaul, Thingo, Unfortunately James Gandolfini, Just Which One’s The Serial Killer: The Game and a pretty good excuse for getting rid of Ben Affleck....

Dec 08, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 271

Episode 196. Christmas Movies

Ho oh no, everyone! The Pauls have decided to undertake a season of Christmas films! They're going to start by discussing what the bloody point of Christmas films are! Let's hope the outcome is positive or the next three weeks will just be us crying more than usual. Enjoy! Featuring: Paul Goodman's very resident evil christmas, nostalgia, Love actually IS depressing as fuck, and Die Hard obviously. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.c...

Dec 01, 20201 hr 31 minEp. 270

Episode 195. No Orchids For Miss Blandish

As we approach episode 200 it's time for another funky punt down the history hole – this time it's "worst film of all time" worst film of all time film No Orchids For Miss Blandish, and every word in that sentence I just said is true. Featuring: weird vamping, journalism gun, the rough touch of Gene Siskel, crazy dames, pointy man, Humphrey Nogart, fight music and Sarah Chronner McGonagalls. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtp...

Nov 24, 20201 hr 1 minEp. 269

Episode 194. Dungeons & Dragons (Feat. The Simpsons Index)

Tally ho and well met, traveller: my name is Count Paulkula and I am a legitimate TTRPG-type wanderer. Oh no! A magic missile! See? Anyway, the Simpsons Index boys came on to talk up another oft-maligned and little-heard of part of a franchise no one cares about. Why? Because we asked them to! Your tax dollars at work. Featuring: Captain Damn-It Dan the Toothpaste Man, Thorazine Birch, and Jeremy "in for a penny" Irons. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean....

Nov 17, 20201 hr 32 minEp. 268

Episode 193. The Spirit

Thanks to Victor Gamboa for eventually responding to my pleas in the night and recommending Frank Miller's The Spirit. Worst luck, though: just yesterday I was standing with elbow on appropriately-positioned stool saying I'd give everyone a million dollars if Frank Miller made a weird pastiche of his most famous film with none of the class, depth or Robert Rodriguezes; not only was everyone in the whole world in the room with me, but they put it on Space YouTube for all the aliens to see. In tha...

Nov 10, 20201 hr 1 minEp. 267

Episode 192. Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Revisited: A Commentary

As part of their mission to revisit their least favourite films in OGT history, the Pauls have recorded a commentary for those of you who are just itching for an excuse to watch Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. For those of you playing along at home, just press play when we press play; for those of you who for some reason are not, we've filled the silences with our usual bollocks, so tune in and zone out to the incessant drone of the Pauls! Featuring: Paul Blart truther, a great catch, frustrated sighs an...

Nov 02, 20201 hr 48 minEp. 266

Episode 191. Slasher Remakes, Reboots and Crossovers

Happy Halloween! Take a break from your 2020 experience by being very, very scared for a bit! This year the Pauls are subjecting themselves to 21st Century attempts to capitalise on Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers (who isn't big enough to be known by one name). Will the Pauls be frightened by Michael Bay outside of the context of the man's sexual politics? Can a serious art film be made by a man definitely named Robert Zombies? What exactly is a short bus? Tune in to our obscenely long Halloween...

Oct 26, 20204 hr 19 minEp. 265

One Quick Thing #8. Stanley (1972)

Paul Salt was born in reverse-Gaspar Noe style last week, so while he’s reknitting his genetic makeup in a soupy vat in the Lewisham YMCA, I’ve unearthed footage of us from a week ago (specially recorded for today like a real episode) in which we watch and discuss the Gorehouse Great animal-revenge movie Stanley. It’s back to regular episodes next week, and back to Paul’s regular old self too. Impermeable, supple, fleshy. Let's talk snakes! Featuring: Kim Twoman, seventies man Mo Green, Chekhov’...

Oct 19, 202050 minEp. 264

One Quick Thing #7: Trip With the Teacher

It's LFF season! Paul Salt is away and the Goodman shall play... the edit of this episode over and over again as he brings to you an episode of One Quick Thing: this time the Pauls get stuck into gritty nasty revenge flick Trip With the Teacher. Oh boy! Featuring: gasso fillo, funky escape, Joan Crawford, Dennis Hopper and the best Australian crows. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtpod https://twitter.com/ogtpod We now have a...

Oct 13, 202033 minEp. 263

Episode 190. Exorcising Exorcist III

Hello Brothers and Sisters! Today Paul “Legs Eleven” Salt rushes to the defence of an oft-maligned movie in the hopes that Goodman will stop spitting on him for just one second. This time around it’s to talk William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist III! Will the saliva resume forthwith or be withheld out of pure damn respect? Find out in here! No, here… here. Look where I’m pointing. Yeah. There we go. Featuring: Better than The Bill, Space Exorcist, a bit of a Father Situation, Ed Flanders and A Goo...

Oct 06, 20201 hr 15 minEp. 262

Episode 189. Van Helsing

The Pauls round off revisiting their teenage years with damp camporama (and camper van) Van Helsing! Who is more and who less jaded than their teen self, and who? Some other questions pertaining to this episode instilling a sense of mystery in the audience? The answers to all await within... the One Good Thing about Van Helsing! Featuring: Mistake Time, Clarifying Roger Ebert Jokes, a Silvestri Secret, Jason Isaacs RPG, Two-Quip Jackman, Extra Werewolf, VAMPIRE RIGHTS, the magic word and flying ...

Sep 29, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 261

Episode 188. Batman Forever

Holy contrived opening, Bat-team! The Dynamic Duo of guys named Paul are going back to their childhoods to find out what Jim Carrey is doing inside of them. But oh no! His best mate Sheriff Tommy Lee Jones is also there, and he's got three arms or something. Splat! Will the Pauls live to podcast another day? In! Featuring: Electric Cancer, Anthony Hopkin's Riddler, the inability to speak, Wild Things, millions of diamonds, Batman the nice guy boss and the thrilling action adventure that McDonald...

Sep 22, 20201 hr 15 minEp. 260

Episode 187. Spy Hard

Tally-Ho and other classic Leslie Nielsen phrases! This week the Pauls begin their trip down 90s Lane, avoiding as they shamble the glassy stares of the remaining members of Take That, murky old coins with Craig Charles' face on them and the battle for Cool Britannia, which was literally a war waged literally on our literal childhoods via Hot Teen Music. We saw a bunch of movies back then, just like now, the difference being we were slightly less discerning in our early years. Exhibit A: Spy Har...

Sep 15, 20201 hr 18 minEp. 259

Episode 186. Perfect Films

Friends! OGTeam! This week the Pauls discuss perfect movies - does such a film exist? What would its criteria be if so, and to what extent must we all maintain decorum and treat each other like human beings as we continue this discussion into the future of cinema? Join us on this path of understanding and reason within! Featuring: some awesome films that only idiots hate unreasonably and I hate them. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook...

Sep 08, 20201 hr 28 minEp. 258

Episode 185. The Babe Ruth Story

Greetings, chums! It's down t'history hole once again as the Pauls find the good things in 1948's The Babe Ruth Story. Knowing the bare minimum about baseball, or America, frankly, what will they learn about these people's national and spiritual hero, and indeed, what prejudices will they develop as a result? Watch out, America, and welcome to One Good Thing. Featuring: baseball, soda pop, BASEBALL, Lenny or George, Opposite Citizen Kane Moment, Paul Goodman’s series of amazing religious referen...

Aug 31, 20201 hr 13 minEp. 257

Episode 184. Inconceivable (feat. John from Beyond the Box Set)

John from the smashing Guardian-featured podcast Beyond the Box Set makes his triumphant return to our smashing Guardian-featured podcast with another of Faye Dunaway’s Mad Crazy Films, this one mostly starring Gina Gershon and Nic Cage, making it a trinity of sorts, but most definitely a trinity headed by a fourth even better thing in the form of director Jonathan Baker, a man who’s just there whether you want him or not. Oh, it’s called Inconceivable, and we’re talking about it right bloody no...

Aug 26, 20201 hr 28 minEp. 256

Episode 183. Soul Man

Thanks to legendary Loki figure @HarrisonVevo for recommending this week's thing: Soul Man. Nice sounding title. A what you'd call 'off-the-mark' romp featuring blackface and lots of very memorable impressions? No doubt. Come find out! In here. We've saved you a space next to Harrison Vevo. Featuring: Captain Punch, really positive racism, the Memorable Thingo, talking about Stewart Lee for a bit, White Man The Movie and Things That Did Not Go Through My Head. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7...

Aug 18, 20201 hr 9 minEp. 255

Episode 182. Anaconda

Phil from Baby Beard joins us this week to discuss the good things in insane and great film Anaconda. If that isn’t enough to lure you in then we’re getting Jon Voight involved. And he’s going to find you. Featuring: our llosta, my important project, Roger Ebert’s Mass Audience Entertainment Machine, a pretty good Ice Cube joke and Enter the Voight. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtpod https://twitter.com/ogtpod  We now have...

Aug 11, 20201 hr 11 minEp. 254

Episode 181. Bucky Larson Returns

Oopsy Poopsy, it's time to return to the Happy Maddison Trough to see what they've slopped out for us today. It's the exact same stuff we processed for them two years ago! Yay, let's run it through out systems again! Can the Pauls find new good things to say about one of the most challenging wanks they've ever been offered? Find out here, now, inside. Featuring: Accents that only last for the first 30 minutes everyone, BDSEmployment, GILFS, COB, drug abuse, Christina Ricci Abuse, explicit Dorf a...

Aug 04, 20201 hr 2 minEp. 253

Episode 180. Only Goods Forgives

Time for a defence-of episode! This is an opportunity for those ever-positive Pauls to actually be positive for once. This time, it’s Goodman’s turn to be super cheerful about sad slow film Only God Forgives - hooray! I tell you what- I’m wanna fight. Are you? Featuring: a Gosly grope, a godly trap, a euphemism for the worst weekend, an awkward situation with Ryan Gosling, Mind Your Scott Thomas and a very good running joke. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.pod...

Jul 28, 20201 hr 10 minEp. 252

Episode 179. Artemis Fowl

Hey everyone, Josh Gad here. We’ve all had a lot of fun today. I just want to take the time to reassure you that the Paulboys are “comedians”, which means that sometimes they will say a thing tinged, nay, sprinkled, with irony. They don’t mean any of the words that come out of their mouths in these moments of inspiration. WARNING! Please don’t worry - these are “jokes”, and usually mean the opposite of what was said. Again, this is just a friendly heads up. We wouldn’t want any misunderstandings...

Jul 21, 20201 hr 11 minEp. 251

Episode 178. Like a Boss

You want empowerment? Check out these two white dudes talking about a movie written by two other white dudes about two women trying to make it in the infamously viscous make up business where their greatest enemy is a powerful woman! Open wide, OGTeam, and prepare to receive what's left of the Rubicon right in your face. Featuring: two great lead performances that deserve a better movie, some conjecture, a new beauty regime that will change your manner of death, vagina cake man, The Inderpendent...

Jul 13, 20201 hr 3 minEp. 250

Episode 177. Dolittle

Oh, to talk with the animals, to laugh and cry and move to Mexico with the animals - we all love animals in the multiple definitions of all of those words, but what happens when someone does away with the meaning of words altogether, pushing Robert Downey Jr. aside in the face to rely only on Kumail Nanjiani delivering one liners via the medium of annoying CGI character? It worked for MIB International, but how does he do that without words, Paul? HOW?! HOOOOOOO The one good thing about Dolittle...

Jul 07, 20201 hr 14 minEp. 249

Episode 176. Trailers!

Are trailers art? What is the purpose of art, and should it have one at all? None of these questions and more are discussed in today's episode, where the Pauls talk about their top ten trailers of all time!* *That they** can remember ** Goodman*** *** Paul Featuring: dooowwwf, key change, comedy scratch, beeeoooww and dff-dff-dff-dffvvuvvufuffffskklllcchhhhh. https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2K https://ogtpod.podbean.com https://facebook.com/ogtpod https://twitter.com/ogtpod We ...

Jun 30, 20201 hr 26 minEp. 248
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