Synopsis
Following the journey to watch, in chronological order, every movie listed in Steven Jay Schneider's 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE.
Episodes
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Trump Won By Exploiting the College Divide
04/11/2024 Duration: 10minpre-order my book CUBAFRUIT Cubafruit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_Y1IV6L9AQOIGCLNNQMSA&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1&language=en_US
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Jay Caspian-Kang, Joe Rogan, and the Gen Z Gender Divide
03/11/2024 Duration: 11minWherein the narrator talks about the latest piece by a New Yorker Magazine favorite, Jay Caspian-Kang, who talks about Donald Trump's targeting of Gen Z men: their wayward resentments, their hearts, their vote... My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_YDGZZY21X53QCQNQ22TV_3&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1 email: thousandmovieproject at gmail
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My Book CUBAFRUIT Now Available for Pre-Order
02/11/2024 Duration: 11minPre-order CUBAFRUIT here! https://a.co/d/cBXtRNJ Check out the transcript for this and other episodes at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com Email me about anything! thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Pick Up Your Emptiness and Share It
29/10/2024 Duration: 09minIn which New York Times columnist David Brooks reminds us, in a new article, that everything is broken and will never get better--prompting, by accident, some questions about the point of what columnists even do. My book CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder here! https://a.co/d/c5XmAhL Wanna reach out? thousandmovieproject at gmail
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The Small Community That Determines the Election
26/10/2024 Duration: 07minThe transcript for this and other episodes can be found at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com My book, CUBAFRUIT, is now available for pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Email me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com
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New York Times Exclusive: Jill Stein is Awful
22/10/2024 Duration: 10minTranscripts for this and other episodes are available at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com (Help the show/newsletter by subscribing!) Get in touch via email: thousandmovieproject at gmail Big announcement: 9 days.
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Yes, Mainstream Media is Biased. No, It's Not a Conspiracy.
21/10/2024 Duration: 11minBreaking down Jay Caspian-King's fantastic piece in this week's New Yorker, about media bias. The transcript for this and other episodes can be found at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com (subscribe!) email me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Quick Book Review: Jonathan Alter's AMERICAN RECKONING
20/10/2024 Duration: 08minNot a proper episode, just a quick note on something I read this week and thought was pretty strong, enjoyable, timely and incisive. New proper episode tomorrow and, until then, you can read this and other episode transcripts below (and subscribe!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com Chat with me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Harris the Interviewee Gets Better Every Week
18/10/2024 Duration: 08minWherein the narrator talks about Kamala Harris's huge improvement as an interview subject, in just the past three weeks, and compares it with some tangential things he's learned about President Biden between two books: WHAT IT TAKES, the 1,500-page tome focusing partly on Joe Biden's 1988 presidential campaign, and WAR, Bob Woodward's latest (still most-revealing) peek into the current Biden administration. Also, riffs on the benefit of quick personal journaling about politics. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Dodging Politics to Compare Dean Koontz and Stephen King
17/10/2024 Duration: 11minWherein the narrator, for lack of news awareness, talks about the differences and similarities between two writers who were very relevant when he was younger. get in touch! thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Sanewashing Trump. Secret Service Has Problems. Aliens on Europa.
14/10/2024 Duration: 09minWherein the narrator takes the permission of two pundits, riffs about some shady sanewashing in the Ts of NY, and finally, like any decent low-watt broadcaster, brings it all back to aliens. You can read the transcript for this and other episodes at BIG READER BAD GRADES (do me a kindness! subscribe!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com wanna tell me something? that you like the show, that it sucks, what you ate? feel free to reach out! thousandmovieproject at gmail COUNTDOWN TO BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: 17 Days.
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Saturday at the Hospital. Trump Makes Threats. Ross Douthat on One Thing. Jill Lepore on Another.
14/10/2024 Duration: 09minWherein the narrator talks about a personal emergency (ish), some recent insights from Ross Douthat, and others from Jill Lepore. Transcripts for this and other episodes are available at BIG READER BAD GRADES, on substack (do me a kindness! subscribe!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com feel free to reach out! thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Harris Makes A Risky-Brilliant Pledge. Trump Berates Donors.
12/10/2024 Duration: 09minIn which Kamala Harris makes a great pitch, in the wrong direction, and Donald Trump -- frustrated at his Democratic rival raising $1 billion in just three months -- pursues the most sensible solution possible: berating his donors.
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The Polls Are Saying Ignore the Polls. Hurricane Grocery.
11/10/2024 Duration: 11minSomething Personal, Something Political. It's been a stressful week at the grocery store, and politics afford no respite. Here's a decidedly lower-tech episode, acapella, in the interest of resuming the rhythm and getting things out. Read transcripts of the show on Substack (free!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com email: thousandmovieroject at gmail
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Trump Meets Theo Von: This is "Big Reader Bad Grades"
27/08/2024 Duration: 14minSubscribe to the newsletter at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com talk to meh: thousandmovieproject at gmail
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Tryna Talk About Trump & It Doesn't Work
30/04/2024 Duration: 14mintinkered with this disaster for 4 days, thinking there was something to salvage, but ad a gesture of peacemaking and personal release I surrender it out and on we go... support the show, check out the ebook, it's free*! ~~~~~ *unless you wanna pay for it* ~~~ talk at me!: email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
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Birthday Boy (Vol. 33)
24/04/2024 Duration: 13minThe (partial) eBook is here! Download free or pay what you want at https://ko-fi.com/s/4f4999c591 It's my 33rd birthday and what was supposed to be an easy-peasy recording, with just a quick intro and then a brief reading from the ebook, turned into this long, searching, semi-confessional thing that came somewhat out of nowhere--but is also reflective of the sorts of changes implied. Birthday Tradition: One of the few times I feel comfortable asking but, if you want to do me ~birthday kindness~ this week, it would mean a lot if you could review the show, on your podcast platform of choice, and share it with friends. Thanks for listening! Support the show at https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod ~~~ chat me up GOOD: email: thousandmovieproject at gmail IG: @thousandmoviepod
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This Question Raises Small Talk to Medium Talk
23/04/2024 Duration: 08minThe TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip! https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
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Cuban Superstitions REVEALED
23/04/2024 Duration: 11minThe TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip! https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
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One Thing So Beautiful Nobody Wants It
21/04/2024 Duration: 10minThe TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi. https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tipjar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod