Frotcast Bonus: YouTubers and The Movie Brats, with Paul Fischer

Frotcast Bonus: YouTubers and The Movie Brats, with Paul Fischer

July 3, 2026 · 1h 11m

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Paul Fischer discusses the parallels between modern filmmaking and the early seventies in Hollywood.

PLEASE SIGN UP ON PATREON , EVEN IF IT’S FOR FREE! Posting everything here has become a burden, and if you’re only listening to this feed you probably aren’t getting all of the episodes. Sign up now at Patreon . It’s two podcasts (Pod Yourself and the Frotcast) for the price of one! Patreon dot com slash frotcast! This episode is free , but $5 a month gets you all the premium ones (two a week!). Movies looked irrelevant and corny before, until some kids brought it back from the dead. Are there signs that it’s happening again? ‘Last Kings of Hollywood’ author Paul Fischer explains. This week’s interview is with Paul Fischer , author of The Last Kings of Hollywood, Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema , which could not possibly be more relevant to the current state of the film industry, and not just because there’s a new Spielberg movie out and Marcia Lucas just died. With Zoomer (Gen Alpha?) filmmakers breaking out ( Obsession, Backrooms ) while The Mandalorian and Supergirl flop bigly, there are signs that the paradigm has shifted. This, mind you, is not unprecedented. People thought the movie business was…

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