Year 20, Episode 5

About this episode

Phil and Dean engage in a lively discussion covering literature, film, and a call for a boycott of Paramount.

Original Release Date: Monday 8 June 2026 Description: Phil was actually worried he and Dean wouldn’t have enough to discuss to fill this week’s show and wow was his worry unfounded! The gentlemen get the conversational ball rolling with the return of “What We’re Reading” wherein four quite fascinating and quite disparate works get covered, leading to in-depth discussion about such topics as painting watercolors, epistolary novels, the comedic genius of Norm Macdonald, and life in Austria-Hungary of the early 1900s. All the major prizewinners at Cannes 2026 get discussed, and the early summer U.S. box office gets celebrated. Then, however, the tone turns darker, as the need for a full-on boycott of Paramount and its properties gets expressed, and the ramifications of waiting for the Warner Bros. merger to launch said boycott get explored. Dean saw The Sheep Detectives and shares his thoughts. Phil watched the classic 1945 film noir Detour and spills the dirt on its director’s fall from grace, hails the film as a must-watch for aspiring filmmakers, and regales Dean with a delightful fact about the career of the film’s lead actress, Ann Savage.

People in this episode

Hosts: Phil, Dean

Topics covered

• literature
• film
• Cannes Film Festival
• boycotts
• film noir
• art
• comedy

Keywords

• Cannes 2026
• Detour
• Norm Macdonald
• Austria-Hungary
• The Sheep Detectives
• film noir
• epistolary novels

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Sheep Detectives, Detour

Places: Austria-Hungary

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