Into The Abyss (A Sinan Kose Stream ft. Jack & Geraint)
the boys join Sinan for an hour and half of political shittalking
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 38 min
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Episode 241 - Scratch A Liberal, Get A...
Jack & Yair return from a lengthy sojourn to go equally at length on film, touching on auteurist false advertising, early 2010s liberal imperialist crowdpleasers such as torture advertorial Zero Dark Thirty, the comparatively inoffensive Argo, and their earlier antecedent, Steven Spielberg's Munich, all the grouching about liberal melts you'd expect as a consequence, plus Shakespeare adaptations, the new documentary about reviled criminal Sir Jimmy Starmer, and the Albuquerque meth scene ext...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 17 min
'The Sacking of Carthage' (a song by Graveyard Goat Family)
Got you! Know you saw on your feed that Reel Politik had a new track and thought it was an episode. It's actually a comeback for a different project that falls under the wider RP Corp Intl umbrella. Graveyard Goat Family are effectively a rebrand of the previous musical project of RP host Jack Frayne-Reid, Crazy Moose, with no set lineup but more of an emphasis on collaboration with other musicians. Do you know how to rock? That musician could be you... Anyway, we will be collecting some choice ...
Jun 15, 2022•4 min
Episodes 223/5 - Got Blunt. Got Weed./The Tree Of No Life (UNLOCKED)
Happy 4/20 to all RPheads! As a special treat for all our loyal listeners in Gape Nation - no doubt inveterate tokers to a man - we present a special omnibus edition of our two-part investigation into the stoner movie subgenre from last year. Original episode one description: This episode is about stoner movies. Lowest common denominator stuff. Movies that are just about weed. Movies where weed solves everything. What more do we need to say? How High. Half Baked. Harold & Kumar Escape From G...
Apr 20, 2022•2 hr 3 min
Episode 237 - Mike Love, Asshole (UNLOCKED)
Jack draws on extensive Beach Boys research to regale Yair with tales of their famously awful frontman and artistic parasite, Mike Love, and why we must all suffer for Mike Love's art. NOTE - We have opted for the Americanised "asshole", as is the common parlance when discussing Mike Love, as a quick Google search of "Mike Love asshole" will bear out, once you've sifted through all the pornography. Similar results to "Mike Gapes" really. Subscribe to the RP Patreon today at patreon.com/reelpolit...
Apr 06, 2022•43 min
INTERVIEW: RMT's Darren Procter on the P&O Layoffs
Our friend Jordan Hartley of the Comradio podcast (@JordanHartley89) interviews Darren Procter, National Secretary of the RMT, about the recent layoffs of P&O workers and resultant industrial action. Solidarity with the workers!
Mar 26, 2022•17 min
Episode 238 - Ain't Marching Anymore
Once again, leftists are being asked "will you condemn?" about things we either needn't or have already condemned. Jack, Yair and Geraint reiterate that we are under no obligation to prove our leftist credentials by becoming neocons, then revisit a very funny Twitter brouhaha concerning the Mouth of Sauron, and Keir Starmer's extensive history with tax-dodging law firm (capital F Firm, if you Grisham Heads get me!!) Mishcon de Reya. Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik today to hear another enti...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min
UNLOCKED: Episode 234 - SuperTankies
Recorded immediately prior to Patreon exclusive KRPFM's Sounds of the Seventies Vol. 1, the boys (in this case Jack, Yair and Geraint) get together for the first time in 2022 to just talk some shit about our political foes, from grifting viral "satirists" to nuke-loving Open Labour uwu bellends, to the despicable Sir Tony Blair himself. We also get sidetracked talking about paedophiles for like half an hour, which Jack does his best to stop, but comprehensively fails. Produced by Yair. For more ...
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Episode 235 - Questions To Answer
smears against the leader of the opposition - bad now, apparently.
Feb 12, 2022•57 min
Episode 233 - Ilford South Park (ft. @phased_bemused)
Comrade, rock 'n' roller, sometime Desolation Radio host and Welshman Stefan AKA "Shrieking Tinman" (@phased_bemused on the Twitter) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint to talk about the legacy of South Park and its ceaselessly vulgar brand of social commentary; whether it really curdled the brains of a generation, whether it has now truly "gone woke", and whether co-creator/sole writer & director Trey Parker is the Pasolini of post-1997 America.
Jan 23, 2022•2 hr
UNLOCKED: Episode 230 - Bond #1
In the first instalment of a multipart series, Jack, Tom and Yair go deep on the first six James Bond films, plus 1981's non-canonical return to the franchise by Sean Connery, the MacGruberesquely titled Never Say Never Again. Our appraisal of the entire Roger Moore era has already been recorded, and we plan to enlist Geraint to help us discuss the last three James Bonds - Dalton, Brosnan, and Connery - before Christmas. Peace! Produced by Yair. For more episodes like this, and our brand new cla...
Jan 11, 2022•46 min
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! (A Sinan Kose Stream ft. Jack, FFF and various)
Please enjoy this audio of the last 2.5 hours of Sinan Kose's New Year's Eve Twitch stream ft. Jack, FFF, nparticipacion, Juliet Jacques, @uslu_em, John Duncan, Jordan Hartley & more (genuinely struggling to remember, there were so many people). This, however, is only the Jack-featuring portion of the stream, although he's somewhat absent for a bit towards the start while he (off mic) eats some sausages and chips. Anyway, it gets really fun - we talk about Mike Hookem punching out his UKIP c...
Jan 10, 2022•2 hr 13 min
Episode 232 - Ringo Rama (ft. Lilly @mothcub_)
Jack reviews GET BACK (Peter Jackson, 2019) - this year's 7.5hr Disney+ docuseries about the making of the Beatles' Let It Be album in 1969 - with help from youtuber, artist, and fellow Beatles fan Lilly AKA mothcub, who you can find on Twitter @mothcub_ and on YouTube simply as mothcub. We end up talking a lot about solo Ringo Starr. This episode also features covers by Jack - who produced it - of The Ballad of John & Yoko (Lennon/McCartney), How Do You Sleep? (Lennon) and Let It Be (McCart...
Dec 24, 2021•2 hr 6 min
Episode 229 - Bizarre & Frankly Unacceptable
Jack and Geraint present your semi-regular RP politics roundup ON: Sir Keir Starmer's ultra-Blairite new shadow cabinet and appointment of David Blunkett to an advisory role, newly surfaced evidence of Jeffrey Epstein hanging out at the Queen's private Balmoral pad, the typically vapid annual British Journalism Awards, and - on a less political note for this politics roundup - the death of great reggae bassist Robbie Shakespeare, which inspires us to look back on Tory singer-songwriter Gary Barl...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 50 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 228 - Three Non-Bonds
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of material (plus a bonus 20 mins of dope Dylan covers!) Jack, Yair and TOM (not disso! original tom!) did a long recording where we covered every James Bond until Timothy Dalton, at which point Tom's internet crapped out, and Jack and Yair decided to talk about non-Bond movies for a bit in his stead. don't worry, though! Tom does appear here, as we edited together the non-Bond (are you getting the title now? there's three of us, an...
Dec 08, 2021•9 min
PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 227 - Some Kind of Lenster (ft. Sinan Kose)
Hear this full episode and much more by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik For 80 mins (ok, some of which is dedicated to Turkish pastries and Metallica) Jack & Sinan (@TheSinanKose on Twitter, @SKTheCrusader on Twitch) go EVEN DEEPER into Len McCluskey's Always Red: his feud with the hated Tom Watson, his feud with the hated Gerard Coyne, and OUR feud with the hated Stephen Bush, on whom we do a reading series of sorts. Seriously, though, skip through that first 20 mins if you don't wan...
Dec 02, 2021•10 min
Episode 226 - Under The Always Red Sky (ft. Sinan Kose)
Further thoughts from Jack and friend of the show Sinan Kose (@SKTheCrusader on Twitch and @TheSinanKose on Twitter) on former Unite the union general secretary Len McCluskey's recent memoir Always Red, which we first reviewed on Sinan's stream recently. In these highlights from a longer conversation (more of which will be available tonight on the RP Patreon) we talk about the unique bind of Brexit on the left, the differences in political strategy between McCluskey and his (also left-wing) succ...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Reviewing Len McCluskey's 'Always Red' - A Sinan Kose Stream w/ Jack Frayne-Reid
Jack joins Sinan Kose on his stream to talk about 'Always Red', the new memoir by the most formidable trade union leader of our lifetimes, Len McCluskey. Len, come on our podcast. Check out Sinan's Twitch stream @ twitch.com/SKTheCrusader Keep checking this feed and patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear us elaborate further on our thoughts on this book.
Nov 24, 2021•2 hr 5 min
Episode 224 - Cocaine Christianity (ft. @aarjanistan)
Fellow left-wing podcaster Aarjan (@aarjanistan) joins Jack and tom disso (@nailheadparty) to get into a long-awaited discussion of Kanye West's (or Ye's, as I guess we're supposed to call him now) most recent studio album DONDA, a fascinating record in equal parts ambitious and overstuffed, inspired and incoherent. We talk about how early 2010s EDM is already the most dated music in history, Kanye's immense struggle to write lyrics after expending so much effort proving himself as an MC, and th...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Labour Conference Shitshow Special - A Sinan Kose Stream
Jack joined friend of the show Sinan Kose's epic "chaos stream" in the wake of last month's Labour conference to discuss the ways that Starmer used it as an opportunity to railroad the left - this recording covers the stream from the point at which he joined the conversation. It treads similar thematic ground to our recent episode with Tom Blackburn, which you should check out, along with Sinan's Twitch stream at twitch.tv/skthecrusader, and his Twitter account @TheSinanKose.
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Episode 222 - Thrillingly Blairite (ft. Tom Blackburn @malaiseforever)
Jack and Geraint are joined by guru of Reel Politik Thought Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever on Twitter), a writer and editor for New Socialist and contributor to Tribune and the Guardian. Tom breaks down the labyrinthine political developments that took place over the week or so surrounding Labour's annual conference, in which Kieth Starmer delivered an endless speech written by the *politically* bald Phil Collins and rigged the party rules to shut the left out of the leadership indefinitely. Tom...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Episode 221 - Late Python (ft. Will Sloan)
Jack and Geraint are joined by Toronto's preeminent man of letters Will Sloan, co-host of the Michael & Us - @michael-and-us - and Important Cinema Club - @the-important-cinema-club - podcasts*, who tweets @WillSloanEsq. The topic of the day is the late period work of six of comedy's grandest old lions in winter - well, five really, as Graham Chapman died in 1989 at the age of only 48; yes, the old men whose turn it is to cop that trademark RP smoke today are the Monty Python team, and the w...
Oct 03, 2021•1 hr 58 min
Episode 220 - The Immortal Science of Marxism-Dylanology (ft. Rhian E Jones)
Writer, Red Pepper co-editor, and repeat RP guest Rhian E Jones - author of the new book Paint The Town Red and co-host of the Handbags & Gladrags podcast - joins Jack for a long-promised Dylanological summit, inspired in particular by his recent "livestream" performance Shadow Kingdom and the new, 16th, edition of his Bootleg Series, Springtime In New York (which features rare tracks from 1980-5.) We talk about the enormously creatively vibrant Infidels era, the lyrical peaks of 2001's "Lov...
Sep 23, 2021•2 hr 5 min
Episode 219 - Papa Loach
After a short hiatus for most of August, RP is back on the hype. Yair is back from paternity leave, and joins Jack and Geraint to discuss a trifecta of pivotal political matters: firstly, we celebrate the delicious defeat of the dastardly Gerard Coyne in the Unite General Secretary election. Then - taking up the bulk of the episode - we discuss the insidious political persecution and cruel vilification of legendary socialist, Britain's greatest filmmaker, Ken Loach. Finally, we yuk it up about G...
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 47 min
PATREON PREVIEW - The Foot Fist Way: An RP Audio Commentary ft. FFF
Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full movie commentary and bonus half hour or so of chatter at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54719661 Despite being a huge fan of Danny McBride's work with his writing partner and director Jody Hill, I'd never seen the low-budget McBride/Hill debut flick The Foot Fist Way (2006), about a loser martial arts instructor with broadly the standard Danny McBride persona, with all that entails. My own GapeCast writing partner (season two is c...
Aug 11, 2021•7 min
Episode 218 - RAM! Jam! Fuck You, Maan! (UNLOCKED ft. tom disso)
We promised that our epic dive into Ruth and Martin's Album Club - episode 217: the RP RAM Album Club Club - was only a taste of what we'd recorded with tom disso on the subject. True to our word, here's another full episode (not some skimpy 20 min "Bonus RP" type shit) in which we address two of the worst RAM Album Club reviews of all: Chris Addison's spectacularly ignorant lukewarm 6/10 review of Marvin Gaye's seminal What's Going On, and Euan McColm (guitarist for the band Fat Cops, alongside...
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 24 min
PATREON PREVIEW: BONUS RP - The Bootleg Series Vol. 420
bonus RP on RAM Album Club, 70s cinema and - in this exclusive clip - FRAUD MP Subscribe @ patreon.com/reelpolitik and hear the full thing here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54718965
Aug 09, 2021•4 min
Episode 217 - The RP RAM Album Club Club (ft. tom disso)
In the mid 2010s, there existed an uneasy peace between Britain's Twitter-using centre-left and elements of the hard left and centre right. One of the era's quintessential venues for comrades of different political affiliations, but perhaps similar social and professional milieus, to find common ground was RUTH AND MARTIN'S (RAM) ALBUM CLUB, a tumblr blog in which a hand-picked selection of individuals drawn primarily from the worlds of light entertainment and political journalism would take it ...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Welcome To The Abyss (A Sinan Kose Stream ft. Jack, @SanitaryNaptime & @anarchonbury)
Jack appeared on the last hour or so of Sinan Kose's mammoth three-hour stream immediately after the Batley & Spen by-election. This features only the Jack segment plus a short intro by Sinan from the start of the stream. Subscribe to Sinan's Twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader (the video of this full stream is here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1074540425) and to his YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/c/SKTheCrusader/videos (featuring many RP appearances!) - plus give him a fol...
Jul 17, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Episode 215 - Folkin' Up (ft. Elijah @KlezmerRouge)
Jack and Geraint are joined by musician and hardline poster Elijah @KlezmerRouge to discuss banjoist Winston Marshall's recent departure from pop-folk juggernaut Mumford & Sons after he praised an anti-antifascist book by far-right activist Andy Ngo. We talk about folk signifiers as marketing strategy, the cases for and against "going electric" and singing in a British vs. transatlantic/faux-American brogue, and the malign influence of the Mumfords on an older generation of musician. Marshal...
Jul 10, 2021•1 hr 41 min
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