In Episode 431, Madden and Kolsky discuss their IRL meet-up between podcasts before getting down to brass tacks on:
- The last two weeks of The Challenge: Vets & New Threats (7:00) and the thrilling elimination that crowned the most recent episode…
- The baffling and distinctly not funny comedy The Pickup (22:50) and how exactly we end up making things that make no sense…
- The disappointing film The Phoenician Scheme (28:40) and whether the career of Wes Anderson has ceased to be a source of interest…
- The excellent Freaky Tales (34:30) and its love affair with Oakland…
- A revisiting of Apple TV+’s insane show Smoke (43:05) and how the not-especially-good-but-totally-ridiculous blueprint seems to be working for them…
- Homework for next week (51:45), including: the next episode of The Challenge: Vets & New Threats, the Office spin-off The Paper, HBO’s new crime drama Task and the Amazon Prime teen band show The Runarounds…
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