The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and The New York Times’ Wesley Morris were just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the podcaster from the podcasting process. They revisit Robert Altman’s satirical film ‘The Player’ starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, and Fred Ward. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#275 – Rick Rubin: Legendary Music Producer
Radiolab
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In the Dust of This Planet
#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry
🎧 Immutable – Meshuggah
It’s their new one that just came out. It’s in constant rotation. Much easier to get into for me compared to the previous “The Violent Sleep of Reason”. The tracks on this one are so evil, which I very much like.
I’m almost sad now, that they cancelled all their gigs in Germany for the upcoming tour.
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
477: In the Metal
‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey are pissing in somebody’s pool, and they’re fresh out of chlorine. They celebrate Bruce Willis as John McClane in ‘Die Hard 2’, also starring William Sadler and Dennis Franz. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
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Inheritance
🎥 Wolverine blues
My cover of this Entombed song that never gets old.
Sound is not that great to be honest, but actually not much worse than what came out of the speaker. The signal went through the Eyemaster pedal into my overdriven Katana Mini. And I feel like that little amp/speaker can’t quite handle the amount of distortion. And also sending the backing track through there, too, certainly doesn’t help. I also haven’t figured out what the best postitioning of the little microphone is in front of the amp.
Anyhow. Great song. Easy and fun to play. Tuning is Drop-A#.
476: Plausibly Viable
‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey recap the Will Smith–Chris Rock incident from last night’s Academy Awards (2:26) before cutting the phone lines and locking themselves in a concrete box to revisit David Fincher’s ‘Panic Room,’ starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, and Jared Leto (13:23). Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
🎬 Climax

If a lot of scenes and the plot in general wasn’t so shocking and thelanguage not as coarse, I would say this could almost be described asbeautiful. It’s beautifully choreographed – both in a dancing kind ofway, as well as a cinematography kind of way. But it’s a choreography ofa horror trip. And the film takes you along for it.
#272 – Brett Johnson: US Most Wanted Cybercriminal
🎬 The Descent

Those monsters and the cave setting were actually really well done andit had some good moments. Unfortunately the plot and characters were notof the same quality leaving me indifferent to how this continues orends.
Young voices special
Is the nuclear threat real? What does Putin want? Who is winning the war in Ukraine? We took questions on the invasion from young people around the world and looked for answers from BBC correspondents.
Jackie Leonard speaks to Martin Forster, a senior child psychologist with the healthcare company, Kry, in Sweden. Listeners' questions are tackled by Vitaliy Shevchenko, Paul Adams, Theo Leggett, Lyse Doucet and Mark Lowen.
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The Right Stuff
🎧 IMPERA – Ghost
Very much enjoying the new Ghost! This one had me with that opening scream in Kaisarion. Much great songwriting and a great flashback to 80s hard rock and metal. This has great songs throughout and some of them keep making me smile. Especially Spillways and Griftwood, whose beginnings are Bon Jovi’s “Runaway” and Van Halen’s “Ain’t talking ‘bout love” respectively. Guitar work is so good and satisfying. And hiring Fredrik Åkesson is a great choice, as the solos are top notch, too.
🎬 Wheels on Meals

I do enjoy some good Jackie Chan stunts. And this had quite a few goodones, if I’m being honest. But overall I had trouble staying motivatedto continue watching. The plot itself is mediocre, the movie is way toolong, and the jokes are almost annoyingly silly. I probably would’vewritten more favourable words if this had been a (max.) 90 minute affairinstead of the 110 it actually was.