Vol. 37 - "Monsters and Effluvia"

About this episode

Jordan and Sam discuss various films and themes including Mel Brooks, The Plague, and Return to Silent Hill.

This week, Jordan and I (Sam) stand up for IS THIS THING ON?, get canty Semitic with MEL BROOKS: THE 99 YEAR OLD MAN!, pool our thoughts on THE PLAGUE, get Gaza gritty with shockudrama THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, beg for MERCY... from itself, have NO OTHER CHOICE but to ponder our Korea, seize THE RIP, wonder, man, what to make of WONDER MAN, place our Stathoscopes on SHELTER, face down the Stygian simian of PRIMATE, to our own selves be true about HAMNET, and the rest is silence... as we RETURN TO SILENT HILL... for the first time.

People in this episode

Host: Sam

Topics covered

• IS THIS THING ON?
• MEL BROOKS: THE 99 YEAR OLD MAN
• THE PLAGUE
• THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
• MERCY
• WONDER MAN
• SHELTER
• PRIMATE
• HAMNET
• RETURN TO SILENT HILL

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Monsters and Effluvia, IS THIS THING ON, WONDER MAN

Places: Jordan, Gaza, RAJAB, Korea, SILENT HILL

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