Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan celebrate 250 movies on The Rewatchables by dancing the tango and driving a Ferrari better than anyone has ever seen, as they revisit Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning role in ‘Scent of a Woman’, which also stars Chris O’Donnell and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Radiolab
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This was more of a dumb-phone than a smart-phone. The supernatural neverexplained, unnecessarily violent in places, constructed jump-scares, andkid-characters that weren’t believable. I don’t know why Ethan Hawkeeven “starred” in this. It’s also a weird mix of some highschool movie,“Silence of the lambs”-style thriller and “the sixth sense”. But inboring. I’m sorry!
Objectively, this wasn’t a good movie. It just wasn’t suspenseful atall. And the ideas? Meh!
We still had a great evening, though! Part 3 is missing in ourcollection, which held us back from continuing the series. Luckily Udocame around with the DVD box set, so that we could finally continue. Wewere made aware that this was filmed in “3D”, featuring the usual “woah,something’s flying towards the camera” moments. Hilarious! So, this andits trashiness in general entertained us very well.
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Min Jin Lee is the author of the best-selling novel Pachinko. She’s a Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of South Korea's Manhae Grand Prize for Literature. In Pachinko, she tells a sweeping, multi-generational story of a Korean family that moves to Japan. Pachinko is an international best-seller, named one of the best books of 2017 by the New York Times, the BBC, the New York Public Library, and more. In 2022, it was adapted into an Emmy-nominated television series on Apple TV+. In this episode, Min talks to Book Exploder host Susan Orlean about a passage from Chapter 4 of Pachinko: a pivotal scene that takes place in June 1932, in a small fishing village in Korea.
For more, visit bookexploder.com/episodes/min-jin-lee.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins record the most systematic, hydromatic, and ultramatic podcast ever after rewatching the 1978 classic ‘Grease’, starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, and Stockhard Channing. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Radiolab
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Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Kae Tempest is a songwriter, rapper, an award-winning poet, and best-selling novelist. They’ve been nominated for the UK’s Mercury Prize and Brit Award. Their most recent album is The Line is a Curve, which came out earlier this year. It was executive produced by legendary producer Rick Rubin. Kae made the album alongside their longtime collaborator, producer Dan Carey. I talked to Kae and Dan talk about the song "Move." You’ll hear the first demo they made, which sounds almost nothing like the final version. In this episode, they talk about how the track evolved over several sessions, months apart. Kae’s own life changed a lot during that period. They came out as trans and non-binary in 2020, and this song, in part, helps tell the story of what they were going through.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Mallory Rubin use this podcast to get into Harvard after rewatching the 1992 classic film ‘School Ties’, starring Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O’Donnell, and Cole Hauser. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Juliet Litman go from totally geek to totally chic after rewatching ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Radiolab
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