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My Life Is as Good as an ABBA Song – Muriel’s Wedding
Jun 24, 2026
1h 08m 17s
You’ve Been Putting It Up Your Whole Life – No Country for Old Men
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The Only One That Was a Friend to Me – The Gift
Jun 8, 2026
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Sounds Wonderful Doesn't It – A Simple Plan
Jun 1, 2026
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I'll fix ya some eggs – Fargo
May 25, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 |  My Life Is as Good as an ABBA Song – Muriel’s Wedding | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith discuss Muriel’s Wedding, the humiliations of home and the difference between running away from your life and leaving to finally begin one. | 1h 08m 17s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 |  You’ve Been Putting It Up Your Whole Life – No Country for Old Men | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith consider the stories families pass down, ordinary lives, and ask whether the past was ever safer, kinder, or easier to understand. | 1h 08m 43s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 |  The Only One That Was a Friend to Me – The Gift✨ | griefabuse+3 | — | — | — | griefabuse+4 | — | 1h 09m 17s | |
| 6/1/26 |  Sounds Wonderful Doesn't It – A Simple Plan✨ | middle classAmerican crime+3 | — | Sam RaimiA Simple Plan | — | middle classanxiety+3 | — | 1h 13m 03s | |
| 5/25/26 |  I'll fix ya some eggs – Fargo✨ | debtkidnapping+3 | — | Fargo | — | Fargodebt+3 | — | 1h 16m 44s | |
| 5/18/26 |  If you let me, I can help you become a better person – The Housemaid✨ | coercive controlsurvival+3 | — | The Housemaid | — | The Housemaidcoercive control+3 | — | 1h 05m 21s | |
| 5/11/26 |  "Crossing Lines – Parasite"✨ | wealthpoverty+4 | — | Parasite | — | ParasiteBong Joon-ho+4 | — | 1h 11m 14s | |
| 5/4/26 |  Not Everybody Is As Lucky As We Are – One Hour Photo✨ | family lifecurated image+3 | — | One Hour Photo | — | familyOne Hour Photo+3 | — | 1h 10m 20s | |
| 4/13/26 |  It's My Family – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle✨ | motherhoodpsychological thriller+3 | — | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | — | motherthriller+3 | — | 1h 09m 04s | |
| 4/6/26 |  Playing Happy Family – Fatal Attraction✨ | infidelityfamily dynamics+3 | — | Adrian LyneFatal Attraction | — | infidelityfamily+4 | — | 1h 09m 02s | |
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| 3/30/26 |  The Roles That Wouldn’t Hold – The Birds✨ | character transformationfamily dynamics+3 | — | The Birds | — | The BirdsMelanie Daniels+3 | — | 1h 09m 02s | |
| 3/23/26 |  A Boy's Best Friend is his Mother – Psycho✨ | Hitchcockfilm analysis+4 | — | Psycho | — | HitchcockPsycho+4 | — | 1h 04m 26s | |
| 3/16/26 |  Whatever Will Be – The Man Who Knew Too Much✨ | family dynamicsinternational intrigue+4 | — | The Man Who Knew Too Much | — | Hitchcockfamily+5 | — | 1h 02m 02s | |
| 3/9/26 |  Crisscrossed Households – Strangers on a Train✨ | film analysisfamily dynamics+3 | — | Strangers on a Train | — | Strangers on a Trainfilm analysis+3 | — | 1h 02m 02s | |
| 3/2/26 |  No Ordinary Family – Shadow of a Doubt✨ | Hitchcockfamily dynamics+4 | — | Shadow of a Doubt | — | HitchcockShadow of a Doubt+5 | — | 1h 06m 40s | |
| 2/23/26 |  Damn It I Want This Family To Love Me – The Royal Tenenbaums✨ | family dynamicsadult children+4 | — | The Royal Tenenbaums | — | The Royal TenenbaumsWes Anderson+6 | — | 1h 00m 54s | |
| 2/16/26 |  This Is For Your Own Good – The Savages✨ | caregivingfamily dynamics+3 | — | The Savages | — | The SavagesTamara Jenkins+5 | — | 1h 01m 16s | |
| 2/9/26 |  Just in the Nick of Time – On Golden Pond✨ | identityend of life+3 | — | On Golden Pond | — | On Golden Pondidentity+4 | — | 1h 04m 13s | |
| 2/2/26 |  The Wish to be Free – Tokyo Story | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith unpack Tokyo Story as a quiet reckoning with aging parents, drifting children, and the emotional cost of modern life moving too fast to look back. | 1h 13m 33s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 |  Everyone Is Doing Their Best – Make Way For Tomorrow | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith discuss Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and how ordinary decency, practicality, and exhaustion slowly erode responsibility toward aging parents. | 1h 13m 20s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 |  The Lie of Simple Answers – Weapons Reloaded | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith return to Weapons, correcting a rushed first recording and unpacking its abuse allegory, generational parasitism, and the dangerous desire for simple answers. | 1h 02m 43s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 |  2025 Family Pictures Podcast Awards | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith recap the year with their first ever awards show. | 1h 50m 03s | ||||||
| 12/22/25 |  A Home Between Cliff and River – Jeremiah Johnson | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith trace Jeremiah Johnson’s journey from escape into solitude, through an accidental gathering of strangers that becomes a real family, and how its loss traps him in a cycle of violence he never truly recovers from. | 1h 11m 45s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  Don't Think You Ain't Wagering – Meek's Cutoff | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith explore how the quiet persistence of women’s work—and a single act of moral courage—reshapes a frontier story built on male bravado. | 58m 50s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 |  Slow Time Family Labor – The New Land | Jim Groom and Michael Branson Smith explore how The New Land reveals the frontier not as mythic violence but as decades of labor, loss, and quiet perseverance. | 1h 22m 38s | ||||||
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