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5 Star Tossers

46 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

Playful academic podcast that looks at movies and other cultural objects through the lens of 5 groovy themes: Pervs 'R Us, Beast & Sovereign, Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, Marx Grudge, and What Would Jesus Do? (Here are Jake's notes for many of the the podcasts: https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt)

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Heteropessimism: Or, How to Ignore the Sadness of the Sexual Relation

April 08, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 66.8 MB

In this episode, we discuss the thought-provoking 2019 New Inquiry essay by Asa Seresin "On Heteropessimism: Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem." Andy defends the future of heterosexuality from the sidelines so to say. Jake introduces Lacan's "there is no sexual relation," gets personal, digs his own holes, holds back his tears, and offers the formula "the penis lies too" as a way for men and women to discuss the terror of their mutual performativity. Our guest Anaís steals the ...

Tutt Grudge: I Don't Mind a Parasite, but I Object to a Cut-rate one.

March 25, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MB

Greetings, audient! Thanks for hanging in there. It can't be easy. This episode tackles the Tossers' own Marx Grudge Star -- come to collect its resentful dues. Karma imposes its menacing presence in the form of a book by Daniel Tutt, with the provocative title How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left got High on Nietzsche. A unique pleasure it was to host Jamie, who joins us from a more Frankfurt School angle, and helped reign-in Sagi by riposting some of his cheaper jabs at our buddy Ka...

Parasocial Friends: We Did Not Record This For You

March 04, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

Sagi has recently learned about the Internet and relations that  people have on it. We discuss. Parasocial relations lead us to think about a plague of narcissistic personality disorder that capitalism breeds.

Fear and Loathing in the WWE

February 18, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

Welcome back, listener! No joke with the title, some real Hunter Thompson, Bazooko Circus vibes in here And it seems to be spreading beyond the wrestlers, converting everyone in sight. All are engrossed in a spectacle that permits no shadow and emits the meaning of the 'manifest' in all its glory. It is meaning that must be immediate, spectacular, the kind that bypasses judgment and obviates Law (and thought). The kind that can be used to justify shit like violence, or, in this case - as S...

Barbenheimer: She's the Bomb

February 03, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

The Tossers gave themselves  a rather impossible task: prove that  Barbie and Oppenheimer are the same movie. In typical Tosser fashion, we try to turn our failure into charm.   Our sometimes quiet podcaster Jack comes out of the woodwork to take some heavy hits at Christopher Nolan's directorial chops and to educate Sagi on the reason why teenage girls hate their mothers.  Jake is really out to lunch in this one, he tries to talk about the phallus, he quotes other podcasts, and forgets Ma...

Cuckoldry: Things that Go Hump in the Night (*)

January 20, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 63 MB

(*) I refuse to check whether this is/was a porn title. It's finally out, dear listener! Our new episode, long time coming, will take a whack at the concept -- and the social/sexual/political/racial/economic/religious phenomenon (did I miss anything?) -- of cuckoldry. Though Sagi originally suggested it for the obvious purpose of exploring the alt-Right and their repeated "Cuck" accusations towards the left in the United States, Jake had the ludicrous idea that  a Shakespeare play that ...

Divided by the Lie: Animal contra Human, Jew contra Christian, Jacques contra Jacques

December 27, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB

Though absent from the title,  we watched Ricky Gervais's "The Invention of Lying" and Jim Carrey's "Liar Liar" for this episode. Mainly as an excuse to discuss whether lying is something like the fundamental human factor. Jake bundled the stars Beast and Sovereign, Pervs 'R Us, and Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais together to study Jacques Lacan's famous idea that animals cannot feign a feint, or falsify a falsification. The main idea here being that humans fundamentally lie at their core ...

From (Hate to Love and Back Again) Software Retoss: Elden Ring and the Abandonment of the Father

October 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

Hello listener, This is a "retoss"  of a January 6th (no relation) episode, where we discussed 'From Software' games, particularly Elden Ring, particularly how  Sagi sucked at it, which led to his radicalization,  with him expressing Souls-phobic, extremist positions.. It's not the first time. In the meantime Sagi went on a journey -- of self-discovery and community discovery -- through the 'Souls-Borne' gamer community, in its Twitch, YouTube and dedicated websites (stayed out of Reddit). ...

Larry David vs. Louis C.K.: The Jewish Asshole vs. the Catholic one

September 11, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MB

Tossers are back. We always come back. This time we compare the "comedy" stylings of Larry David and Louis C.K. The frame for this comparison is that they are both assholes, but they are assholes of a different color: one is Jewish and the other is Catholic. This introduces a discussion on the different way that they interact with the law and also the different way that they make us (or fail to make us) laugh. Jake dangles throughout the episode a complex thesis inspired by the work of Ale...

Everything you Wanted to Know About Mansplaining but Were Afraid to Ask

July 12, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB

Oh boy... Well Sagi found this obscure blog written by some academic dropout that had an interesting take on Mansplaining (but after listening to this podcast you will have gotten everything of substance in that ode to desperation this guy calls a blog)... Again it's a hard nose dive into the shit, in the hopes of finding a golden shovel. Did we? Time (and death threats) will tell. We discuss mansplaining as an outdated social function of masculinity, and try to affirm it without pandering...

The Shining: Oppression Olympics at the Overlook Hotel

June 05, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 83.3 MB

In this episode, about Stanley Kubrick's classic movie The Shining, we divide our interests neatly between sexual trauma and racism. Well, we attempt to divide them neatly. Andy and Alicia on the side of sex, Jake and Sagi on the side of Race. Andy starts us off by hypothesizing, in intricate detail, the possibility that the movie is about the actual sexual assault of young Danny by Jack Torrance. He also brackets everything with a comment about how endless the interpretations of this movi...

"The Oldest Profession" and the Prostitute: A Match Made in Heaven

May 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB

Dear, patient listener.. We meet again, 2 weeks late, we know.. no creative endeavor is ever an assembly line and we had to drop a dud podcast  by the wayside. Maybe it will be unearthed one day by a particularly desperate AI bot. Maybe we'll sell it for a million dollars as a collector's item. Until then, may it rest in peace. This week's episode asked after the origin of identifying prostitution (typically female prostitution) as "the oldest profession." One such delightful source can ...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A Hardboiled Séance

May 01, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MB

This week we discuss the movie version of John le Carré's novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Alicia leads us in a séance of sorts, asking us to consider why the main character, Alec Leamas (played by Richard Burton) is such an effective protagonist. To make sure the ghosts are summoned, she does not offer us any definition of effective. We float around the following themes: the questionable distinction between political methods and political policies, the difference between betrayal an...

It's Always Sunny in the Marquis de Sade's Ass: Of Cannibalism and Hospitality

April 14, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 77.8 MB

Oh it's you again.. welcome back! So today it's always sunny in Philadelphia again, this time we're (loosely) talking about the first episode of Season 4, Mac and Dennis: Manhunters (2008). Jake found  in it a certain brilliance, by which I mean a glowing excuse mainly to talk about de Sade... oh, and to push his Cannibalist agenda. The cannibal appears originally as an ethnic reference, identified by the European colonist, before mushrooming into a particularly nasty (and suspiciously us...

Bond, Jew's Bond: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

March 26, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 81 MB

Welcome back dear listener! 5 Star Tossers grudgingly presents: Shakespeare's 1596 play The Merchant of Venice! And boy do the grudges flow in this one: Marx, Jew, Woman, Lacan... even Peggy Kamuf and Beyoncé were pretty miffed by the end there. Capitalism is of course (grudgingly) on the table, since both place and time are almost unanimously hailed as the cradle of global capitalism. But Christianity too, insofar as the play deals in the lives, loves, hatreds and pains of those that liv...

No Zoomers were Injured During the Recording of this Podcast on Sex Panic and Consent

March 01, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

We have a really special episode for you today. Sagi has been temporarily banished, and we replaced him with the absolutely brilliant Alicia. Our cultural object this time around looks at the way Zoomers (Gen Z) relate to to sex. Some people claim they are not having enough of it, and some Zoomers claim that sex scenes in movies are non-consensual invasions of their innocence.  Throughout the episode, we assert the impossibility of treating sex as an act without boundaries, transgression, a...

The Menu: Swallowing Man's (or Freud's) Folly

February 07, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 85.2 MB

We are back this week with a barage of Freudian theories and crisp, clean-sounding microphones! We discuss the movie "The Menu "from the vantage point of Freud's structural metapsychology and his diagnostic distinctions between hysteric and obsessive. For those who want a refresher on the relation between Id, Superego, and Ego, speed ahead to about 1:12. Andrew gives a wonderful summary of the obsessive's desire to become pure object and reduce everything to shit. And Sagi, winning for himse...

Sklaving Them Softly: America Puts the Cap on Thor

January 28, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

Hello listener, and welcome! This episode got a little bit out of hand. Treating of the MCU's metaphysical maneuvering, we had to go deep into the bad air of ressentiment... Availing ourselves to Nietzsche, which sounds reasonable, had unfortunately gone to Sagi's head, who proceeded to channel the poor moustached genius throughout. And then a hammer became involved... Unfortunate. We are reverse-engineering perhaps the most cathartic moment of the MCU (phase 3 at least) -- where, in Avenger...

From Software: The Tarnished Will Inherit the Earth

January 06, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 74 MB

Perhaps geared to the most niche part of our listener, in this episode we discuss the bruising and celebrated video game stylings of the company From Software and its auteur creative designer Hidetaka Miyazaki. Jesus returns for the proceedings! Specifically, we discuss the moral imperative YouTubers praise in games such as Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Dark Souls I, II, III. These games are fucking hard, and there is no way to change the difficulty level. But that's just the kind of p...

Gaslighting: Sometimes Pervs R' not us

December 26, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB

Why can't we all just side with one another in the pain of the signifier? Hello again listener! From the flu-ish depths comes at you an almost  contagion-free installment of the Tossers, this time dedicated to Merriam-Webster's 2022 'Word of the Year': Gaslighting. We also have a first-time guest, Andrew, a master summarizer of whom we are still in awe. We introduce the term through a rough semantic history, from its humble beginnings to its humiliating present. We tried to watch the 1944 m...

Barbarian: Why Can't Home Owners and Phallic Mothers Ever Get Along?

December 10, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB

In this episode we discuss the new horror film Barbarian. Marx Grudge returns as we think about the horrors of private property, specifically the home and real estate. We reference a blog post by the scholar Jason Read to follow this track, while trying our best to tie the thread of property relations to he other thread that runs through the movie: sexual difference and its constituent violence. These threads did not come together so neatly, maybe that's because Freud has a Marx Grudge just ...

The Other Mister Rodgers: Dipping our Toes in the Incel Swamp

November 29, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

Hello faithful listener! This Tossers episode tries to air-out the particularly pungent elements in the bad-air Ressentiment of 'Inceldom.' The incel, in our approach, may indicate the site of real pain and therefore allow insight for the very real crisis of heterosexual masculinity, its burning need of transvaluing behaviors that society can no longer abide.  Certainly not for the faint of heart, or the trigger-happy. Now just pop a red pill and listen We talk about the fantasy of authent...

The Rehearsal: Nathan Fielder Giving Life the Business

September 11, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 82.1 MB

They say that one of the high-society ladies that was familiar with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (and his character) said, after he died, that he was an intriguing madman.   In this episode, we delve head first into Nathan Fielder's foldy-folds, whether torture chambers, traps, or some choice slices of life (if you look there you can see Nathan's symptom holding the machete). Between the sketch(y) comedy and HBO's NDAs, our discussion seems to oscillate from wondering what makes the joke, to who's ...

Crimes of the Future: Trans-Cyborg Art or Bureaucratic Autopostasies?

August 23, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 72.6 MB

Once again, we had to shove way too many words into our title, but we swear, we touch on all of these figures in our long awaited return from Summer Break. Cutting into David Cronenberg's new film "Crimes of the Future," we append ourselves to Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie and Jacques Derrida's Beast and Sovereign: Seminar I. An overarching question we ask is whether this film can be a strident affirmation of Trans Politics if it stages the growth of new  hormones and new organs without study...

The Form of Horror: Where "Rubber" Meets the Critical Road (starring Eugenie Brinkema)

May 11, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

In this episode we discuss the 2011 Quentin Dupieux film Rubber. It's the story of a killer tire. Jake suggested this movie after reading Eugenie Brinkema's affect-breaking book Life-Destroying Diagrams. She is all about the horror of form or the form of horror. The thing is, Sagi and Jack found the movie pointless--but isn't that the point of having a tire (a circle, a hole) be the star of the show? We discuss Brinkema, spectatorship, and general questions about taste on this road trip. St...

Tiger's Wood and the Tragedy of the Unforsaking Father

April 30, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB

Hello everyone! You're still here?! This podcast we're discussing and dissecting Tiger, a 2021 HBO mini-series about the rise and Fall of Tiger Phallus.. sorry, I mean Tiger Woods. Tiger's superhuman abilities are analyzed from an Oedipus Complex angle, leading us to speculate about how Earl (and his wife) had tweaked its mechanism to create the perfect golfing machine; the kind that plays golf in a manner closer to that of a machine or a person in the throes of a PTSD symptom. Something si...

To Catch a Predator (QAnon): That's Horrrrrrrible

April 10, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

Oh boy. Jack introduced us to To Catch A Predator. So we try to define Perverted Justice, which is the name of the STING company that catches the predators. Jesus makes a cameo, there's some Derrida, and a whole bunch of Americana sanctimony.  We try not to spend too much time imitating Chris Hansen's voice.  https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

Gone Girl cum Monster: What we Cannot Speak About, we Must Scream.

March 26, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

In this slightly longer episode we tackle Gillian Flynn's and David Fincher's Gone Girl (2014), as a heteronormative woman's violent breakaway from a 'type' that she feels pulled towards in her marriage - unusual, impolite, homicidal, spectacular. Channeling Valerie Solanas' Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM) - allowing this monstrosity to unfold on its own terms - reveals an inversion to existing 'types' and power dynamics in modern western heteronormative marriages. The male's distance-fan...

Gone Girl as Monster: What we Cannot Speak About, we Must Scream.

March 26, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

In this slightly longer episode we tackle Gillian Flynn's and David Fincher's Gone Girl (2014), as a heteronormative woman's violent breakaway from a 'type' that she feels pulled towards in her marriage - unusual, impolite, homicidal, spectacular. Channeling Valerie Solanas' Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM) - allowing this monstrosity to unfold on its own terms - reveals an inversion to existing 'types' and power dynamics in modern western heteronormative marriages. The male's distance-fan...

Gone Girl as Monster: What we Cannot Speak About, we Must Scream.

March 26, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB

In this slightly longer episode we tackle Gillian Flynn's and David Fincher's Gone Girl (2014), as a heteronormative woman's violent breakaway from a 'type' that she feels pulled towards in her marriage - unusual, impolite, homicidal, spectacular. Channeling Valerie Solanas' Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM) - allowing this monstrosity to unfold on its own terms - reveals an inversion to existing 'types' and power dynamics in modern western heteronormative marriages. The male's distance-fan...

The Lacker Finish of Death: Toying with Videogame Fatalities

March 11, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

We thought to explore various kill-shots in the video arena. Come one come all and listen as serious discussions of Freud's death-drive and Japanese Orientalism devolve into a mayhem of body parts and Semen. We tried to go beyond the pleasure principle, where no man had gone before, but some of us gripped firmly unto the edge and would not release. It all spun out of control Pervs R' Us style. Jake had a blast though. Pun?.. What pun?!  https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt...

Videogame Finishing Moves: Lacquers of Death

March 11, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

We thought to explore various kill-shots in the video arena. Come one come all and listen as serious discussions of Freud's death-drive and Japanese Orientalism devolve into a mayhem of body parts and Semen. We tried to go beyond the pleasure principle, where no man had gone before, but some of us gripped firmly unto the edge and would not release. It all spun out of control Pervs R' Us style. Jake had a blast though. Pun?.. What pun?!  https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt...

The Lacker Finish of Death: Toying with Fatality

March 11, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

We thought to explore various kill-shots in the video arena. Come one come all and listen as serious discussions of Freud's death-drive and Japanese Orientalism devolve into a mayhem of body parts and Semen. We tried to go beyond the pleasure principle, where no man had gone before, but some of us gripped firmly unto the edge and would not release. It all spun out of control Pervs R' Us style. Jake had a blast though. Pun?.. What pun?! 

Scambaiters and Grandmas and Phreaks, Oh My: The Mirror of High-Tech Capital

February 22, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

Sagi introduces us to the world of scambaiting, where YouTube content creators scam scammers. We discuss the dubious ethics of these scambaiters and compare it to the Hacker Ethos of free information. We defend the honor of the Indian scammers who get scammed and the Grandmas who these scambaiters often pretend to be.  We also fess up about some scams we have fallen for.  There's lots of Marx Grudge and Beast and Sovereign here, Enjoy! https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/...

A Hunger Artist: The Tragicomic Fate of a Negation made Flesh

February 14, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB

In this glorious installment we will be continuing our actor/acting thematic, this time thinking of Franz Kafka's 1922 short story Ein Hungerkünstler.  Slog along as we  tarry a bit over the slim, somewhat Marxist contribution of the character's Pathos with regards to the reactionary-soporific functions of the Theater.  But then, rejoice with the tragic overabundance of life, as we  broach the fracking of Mount Sinai, interrogate false prophets of Dionysian intoxication, and Babel the shizni...

Is the Actor a Cult Leader?--Seinfeld's "Understudy," Nietzsche's Overman

January 24, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MB

The Tossers obsess over the final scene of a Seinfeld episode (Season 6, Episode 23), where an actor bombs on stage and begs the audience to let her start again. Why, we wonder, is it impossible for her to start again? Why is the audience so cruel? Maybe she can start again? Along the way, we discuss Shakespeare, Hannah Gadsby, Aristotle's Catharsis, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, and Nietzsche's fear that actors now rule the world.  https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8g...

Bioshock Infinite: Jesus, that's Racist, right?

December 14, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB

5 Star Tossers throw up their first video game toss, focusing on Bioshock Infinite, the 3rd installation of the Bioshock series. They debate whether there's racism in the way the Black uprising is portrayed. They also get lost in the pleasure they take in gameplay, wondering whether a video game's story is all that important.  https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

It's Jennifer's Body, not the Abject Corpse of the Female Gaze

November 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB

Tossers turn to Julia Kristeva's abject to think about how repellant Megan Fox actually is in the 2009 film Jennifer's Body. Does she upset the hipster male gaze of the band Low Shoulder, or does she confirm its innermost secret? We also reference the SNL clip called The Librarian with Margot Robbie. https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Rock, Flag and Hegel

November 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

5 Star Tossers throw some Hegel and Isaiah Berlin at you, in the name of freedom.  There's Positive Freedom, Negative Freedom, Absolute Freedom, and then the Good Ole' U.S. of A brand: don't tread on my property. Oh yeah, this is all framed around the Always Sunny in Philadelphia Episode entitled "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Asses" https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

Showgirls: A Hoax on Both Your Hosts

October 25, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB

5 Star Tossers try to make sense of the Paul Verhoeven "Masterpiece of Shit" "Showgirls." Did we? We sure wrestled over it, and we churned out some humiliating memories, some Marxist feminist theories à la Silvia Federici, a hypothesis about the difference between satirizing violence and satirizing sex, a theory of the hoax, and we introduce Deleuze's cinematic concept "the crystalline element." https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

The Golden Buzzer: America's Got Spirit

October 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

This week The 5 Star Tossers look at the cultural phenomenon that is the Golden Buzzer from America's Got Talent. We do a shallow deep dive into Kant's Critique of Judgment to think about the Christian humanism at the heart of any universal celebration of beauty and talent. We also introduce for the first time our Star il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, so expect some Saussurean talk about fracking the signifier. Also, if you want to meet someone who thinks Susan Boyle can't sing, we somehow ...

Rotten Potatoes: On The Turin Horse and the Impossibility of Left Nietzscheanism

October 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB

The Five Star Tossers joyfully lambaste the Béla Tarr movie The Turin Horse. This leads them to think about what happens when you try to mash Marxist and Nietzschean ideas together. https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

Eyes Wide Shut: What's the Fuck?

October 19, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

We discuss Eyes Wide Shut from a psychoanalytic angle. Specifically, we discuss the closing line of the movie by way Jacques Lacan's provocative statement that "There is No Sexual Relation." Here is the link to Jake's Databyss notes for the Podcast:  https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

Grizzly Man: The Fable of Colonizers

October 19, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 73.4 MB

We look at Werner Herzog's fascinating film Grizzly Man. Herzog compiles and analyzes the footage Timothy Treadwell filmed when he traveled to Alaska each summer for 13 years to live with Grizzly bears. We think about the colonizing tendencies in both Herzog and Treadwell, and discuss, via Jacques Derrida, the fabled relation between man and animal. Jake's Databyss notes: https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

Beast With A Billion Backs: Jesus, Jews, and Polyps

October 19, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB

Watching the movie Futurama, Sagi develops a theory about the distinction between the Jew and the Christian. Jake tries to connect this theme to the Polyp and the material gags of comedy. We refer to the following Databyss page throughout the podcast, it's basically our notes: https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9

They Live: Looking Cool, Marx

October 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

The 5 Star Tossers analyze They Live, via Zizek, via Marx, and via their own star Marx Grudge https://app.databyss.org/5-star-tossers-bj5h8glrb4wnlt/pages/i7bflkbyk2dmg9