Episode 214 - Eve of Destruction
Batley and Spen by-election pre-vote analysis + Geraint's beef with PolProf Steve + more Noel Gallagher, world's first great right-wing podcaster
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 28 min
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PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 213 - Gaping Hole Sun (ft. Sinan Kose & Farages Fucked Face)
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and download this full episode at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53030396 Even more FFF content for ya! He's truly becoming the Noel Gallagher to our Matt Morgan, except even more of an unreconstructed reactionary. This time, however, he's relegated to fourth mic duty, injecting a lethal dose of poison into proceedings after we recorded the more insightful and informative portion of our conversation with Sinan Kose, released last week ...
Jun 28, 2021•9 min
PATREON PREVIEW: MacGruber - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary (ft. FFF)
subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52743032 before FFF and I recorded episode 211, we recorded what was actually the main object of that night's session: a commentary track for one of our very favourite films, the 2010 comedy MacGruber (which was in part the subject of one of RP's earliest episodes.) listen along with us here, possibly while watching a copy of the film - we also have a video version of our call t...
Jun 26, 2021•4 min
Episode 212 - Stonger Than Milk (ft. Sinan Kose)
Jack and Geraint are joined by friend of the show Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose on Twitter) to talk the politics in the wake of Starmer Labour's terrible results in the Chesham & Amersham by-election, continued polling decline and personnel turnover, and "Stonger Together" leadership relaunch in anticipation of their predicted loss of the longtime Labour seat of Batley & Spen. Also covered: Noel Gallagher - world's first great right-wing podcaster? Plus the slightly more pertinent matter of ...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 25 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 211 - From Ilford To Ramallah (ft. Farages Fucked Face)
subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full near-hour-long episode after recording another trademark RP Audio Commentary Track (for the 2010 classic MacGruber), Jack and FFF talked politics for a bit, in a conversation centred around the reaction to Jeremy Corbyn's appearance at a Cambridge Union debate. we also addressed the unbearable baldness of being Dorian Lynskey, and checked in on Big Gapes and the mad shit she's retweeting about Sam Tarry speaking at "pro-Hamas hatred ralli...
Jun 21, 2021•4 min
UNLOCKED: Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary
Tom and I recently got together for a lovely, if relatively brief, reunion where we hung out at mine, watched some films, listened to about 500 versions of the Civil War-era folk ballad Pretty Peggy-O, and got a lil wavy. The first film we watched, ie the one for which we were most lucid, was Clint Eastwood's 1982 techno-thriller FIREFOX, a tale of aeronautical espionage (unrelated to the titular internet browser) in which the Russian-speaking "Mitchell Gant" (Eastwood) must learn to *think* in ...
Jun 15, 2021•2 hr 28 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Neil Breen's FATEFUL FINDINGS - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full commentary and much more besides. Recorded later the same night as our commentary for Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX (which is why Tom briefly falls asleep towards the end) we present the second in what will likely be - for now - a trilogy of RP audio commentaries for "classic" (of whatever esoteric interest to us) films. In this one, Tom introduces me to the work of outsider artist Neil Breen, a distinctly Wiseauean writer/director/star/inven...
Jun 15, 2021•8 min
Episode 210 - Resurrecting Rodney
We love Kiers Starmer now. Didn't you hear? He did an interview with arch piece of shit Pier Morgan and now we all think he's great and definitely an actual human being as opposed to a soulless neoliberal automaton hell bent on destroying our dreams of a better world. Thank God we (the RP property development firm) have got our Labour Party back.
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 19 min
PATREON PREVIEW: RP209 - The Whole World's Gone Corbyn (ft. Luke Savage, Will Sloan & Tom Foster)
listen to the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/51789970 by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik leftovers from our session with Will & Luke from Michael & Us + longer politics chat with RP OG Tom F
May 28, 2021•3 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 207 - A Rough & Rowdy Year (Vol. 3 - Buffettology)
For those for whom our Bob Dylan 80th birthday spectacular was not enough - get even more over at patreon.com/reelpolitik. This is an edit of two sections of the third and final part of our 2020-recorded Rough & Rowdy Ways review, which we released on Patreon in tandem with a newly recorded review on our main feed. These selections concern Dylan's friend Jimmy Buffett. In the full episode we focus on the final two songs of the album, Key West and Murder Most Foul, and conclude our thoughts o...
May 25, 2021•16 min
Episode 208 - Masked and Anonymous (ft. Emmett Cruddas)
Happy birthday Bob! With Jack and Yair joined by our boy Emmett Cruddas @roof_access, of the band Phil Graves and the Film Graze podcast, we review Bob Dylan's 2003 foray into motion pictures, the Larry Charles (Borat, Bill Maher's Religulous)-directed Masked and Anonymous. This episode was actually recorded precisely a year ago today, on Bob's 79th birthday, but after some delays in the production we decided to hold off til now. Let's hope we're doing another one of these in another 80 years!
May 24, 2021•2 hr 9 min
Crazy Moose - Going To Acapulco (Bob Dylan cover)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY!!!
May 23, 2021•6 min
Crazy Moose - Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Bob Dylan cover)
HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY BOB! Episode tomorrow.
May 23, 2021•8 min
Episode 206 - Renegades: Made In Canada (ft. Will Sloan & Luke Savage)
In the hottest crossover event of the century (sadly Jack's dumb "joint episode" pun was lost to the sands of time) Jack and Geraint join/are joined by Canadian podcasting kingpins Luke Savage and Will Sloan, past RP guests and hosts of the podcast institution Michael and Us (@michael-and-us here on SoundCloud) to subject themselves to lovely Bruce Springsteen and evil Barack Obama's dreary centrist podcast RENEGADES: BORN IN THE USA, a Spotify exclusive produced by Obama's Higher Ground Product...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 5 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 205 - Latest Podcast Project, Volume 1 (ft. Farages Fucked Face)
go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe to access the full 1.25 hr episode! note: FFF was too drunk to record his own side properly, so he unfortunately appears in a poor quality skype recording. it's honestly a miracle the episode sounds as good as it does. anyway... at last! recorded last friday immediately after our quick local elections reaction, it's our much anticipated review of the record of the moment, Van Morrison's LATEST RECORD PROJECT, VOLUME 1, with our guy FARAGES FUCKED FACE ...
May 15, 2021•5 min
PATREON PREVIEW: BONUS RP - Episode 204 Extra (ft. Jude Wanga, Max Shanly & Matt Zarb-Cousin)
Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe to hear the full minisode, plus a similar one for episode 202 and much, much more. Just a little bit of stuff that didn't fit into the main episode, including some sizzling repartee at the start and some deep London politics from Jude at the end, plus an unreleased live version of LOSER by the Grateful Dead from 1974, dedicated to Sir Keir Starmer. Full Patreon bonus episode with a different special guest dropping tomorrow, if not tonight!
May 12, 2021•2 min
Episode 204 - ...And Love To The Family (ft. Jude Wanga, Max Shanly & Matt Zarb-Cousin)
an all-star panel - including inseparable friend of the show & repeat RP guest Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2), plus both hosts of the legendary ALL THE BEST podcast (hosted @novaramedia); fellow serial RP offender, gambling reform activist and former Jeremy Corbyn aide Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb), and veritable guru of Bennite thought Max Shanly (@maxshanly) - discuss the aftermath of Sir Keir Starmer's disastrous first electoral test, culminating in the binding of Matt's good friend Shippers.
May 11, 2021•1 hr 48 min
Episode 203 - The Last Days of Rome
NOTE: This was recorded on Friday, before Tim Shipman decided to blow up Keir Starmer's marriage with a tweet that lasted mere minutes but the aftershock of which will reverberate for years to come. Jack and Geraint look at the local election results, particularly Labour's loss in the Hartlepool by-election, and ask whether it's possible at this juncture for Labour's beleaguered leader to Keef On Keefin' On.
May 09, 2021•1 hr 33 min
And You Have The Book...: Reviewing 'Change: The Independent Group' w/ Sinan Kose
In perhaps our biggest blockbuster crossover event yet, we team up again with Sinan Kose on his hip, happenin' Twitch stream (https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader) to review Change: The Independent Group, the new revisionist history of the ill-fated centrist party Change UK by its hardline Gapes-Soubz-Leslie faction, allegedly edited by fellow splitter Ann Coffey under the nom de plume "Peter McNab". This is the historic stream in its unedited entirety.
May 07, 2021•3 hr 22 min
PATREON PREVIEW: BONUS RP - Episode 202 Extra
Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full minisode. In this special kind of outtakes reel (ha ha! geddit!) from episode 202, the gang discuss the Change UK book - more on that later in the week - and the Simpsons' weak satire of Morrissey. Also featured are a couple of tracks from the JFR archives and the audio of an old Tom Foster original short. This clip is drawn from the CUK section.
May 04, 2021•6 min
Episode 202 - Ian Shag Vs. Princess Aquapussy
Jack, Yair and Geraint present a classy evening of selected readings from the extensive oeuvre of "Roger Londoniary", a fictitious character/scam who goes by many names, gaming the online literary marketplace by shitting out half-formed opuses in every genre - but primarily sub-Bond espionage thrillers of the kind peddled by the likes of Tom Watson, in which we encounter the titular Ian Shag. We read deep from the steamy Shag saga, and then offer a comprehensive guide to the full available Londo...
May 04, 2021•2 hr 1 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 201 - Da Mystery of Cockfighting (ft. Sarah Sahim & tom disso)
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of material! After we recorded #RP201, we kept talking. The audio quality's not as good, but we're all there. Sadly no splashy cameos this time (beyond the obvious Sarah and disso), but more Keef-bashing, Van-exalting, having a go at Jack for being so into Van, etc, and this amazing story from disso about the Wu-Tang Clan.
Apr 28, 2021•2 min
Episode 200 - #RP200: Legends of Banter (ft. Sarah Sahim, tom disso & SPECIAL GUESTS)
A joyous bacchanal in celebration of our long, strange podcasting trip. Featuring RP producers Sarah Sahim (@hikikonormie) and tom disso (@nailheadparty) on mic alongside Jack, Yair and Geraint. (@wariotifo). Produced by Sarah, with additional prods (in multiple senses) by Jack, and special guest appearances by RP co-founder Tom Foster (@anotherlefttom), Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2), Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts), Woke Bane (@BaneNook), Josie Long (@JosieLong), Shrieking Tinman (@phased_bemused),...
Apr 25, 2021•2 hr 18 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 199 - A Rough & Rowdy Year (Vol. 2)
Jack and Yair have been on the job too long - with three hours of Rough & Rowdy review released, there's still two more to go. In this section of our original 2020 review, we cover the songs on Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways album, from Black Rider to Crossing The Rubicon, stopping along the way at Goodbye Jimmy Reed and Mother of Muses. expect a long detour about the anti-cop folk classic Duncan & Brady (which can be heard in this preview.) Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik an...
Apr 23, 2021•8 min
Vike Gapes presents CHAOS TALKING (A Sinan Kose stream ft. JFR, FFF & nparticipation)
RP's Jack Frayne-Reid joins Sinan Kose on his Twitch stream - https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader - to shoot the shit continuously for almost three hours, play requests on his acoustic guitar, and field questions on such subjects as Keith Starmer's abysmal polling, Van Morrison, and Jimmy Buffett. After about an hour and a bit, GapeCast auteur Farages Fucked Face and friend-of-us-all @participacion show up to bring out the true spirit of this stream, and indeed the RP ethos - chaos, hostility an...
Apr 19, 2021•2 hr 45 min
Episode 198 - A Rough And Rowdy Yair (Vol. 2)
on the second part of our brand new review of Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Way, we take a deeper dive into the individual songs and ask why people will listen to a podcast of idiots like us rambling for upwards of an hour but balk at 17 minutes of straight truth set to beautiful music
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr
Episode 197 - A Rough And Rowdy Yair (Vol. 1)
Whilst our 3-part 2020 review of Bob Dylan's Rough And Rowdy Ways, A ROUGH AND ROWDY YEAR, airs over at patreon.com/reelpolitik, a new 2-part one, A ROUGH AND ROWDY YAIR, will be free for all to hear on our main feed. Please bear this crucial distinction in mind. This is the latter. Jack and Yair convened to record this review at the start of this month, and Yair produced the conversation. In it, we cover the background of the album's release, hit out at some of the haters and losers who failed ...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 8 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 196 - A Rough & Rowdy Year (Vol. 1 of 3)
NOTE: This is a completely different review of Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways album to the one that will be released on this SoundCloud page in two parts over the next week or so, starting tomorrow. This review was recorded last year, and will be released in three parts as it is very long. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to get all three parts of the extended review. In July 2020, Jack and Yair reviewed Bob Dylan's then-new album Rough and Rowdy Ways. A year on, we are finally releasing t...
Apr 09, 2021•7 min
Episode 195 - All Keefed Out (ft. Juliet Jacques)
Writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) returns to the podcast after a year to pick up where we left off last time; is Sir Keith Rodney "Kier" Starmer QC the worst political leader of all time, or simply the worst human being? Produced by Sarah Sahim @hikikonormie.
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 42 min
UNLOCKED: Episode 193 - Mumford Prolicide
Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe to hear more exclusive content like this. This is a good old Jack/Yair episode, in which we discuss a myriad deeply impactful issues; there's the hilarious self-cancellation of the banjoista from Mumford & Sons, the prolific post-cancellation output of Mark Kozelek, and the brilliant work of the not-yet-cancelled Walton Goggins and Danny McBride. Yair, meanwhile, watched the widely derided Malcolm & Marie.
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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