Jack appeared on the last hour or so of Sinan Kose's mammoth three-hour stream immediately after the Batley & Spen by-election. This features only the Jack segment plus a short intro by Sinan from the start of the stream. Subscribe to Sinan's Twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader (the video of this full stream is here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1074540425) and to his YouTube here - https://www.youtube.com/c/SKTheCrusader/videos (featuring many RP appearances!) - plus give him a follow on Twitter @TheSinanKose!

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Welcome To The Abyss (A Sinan Kose Stream ft. Jack, @SanitaryNaptime & @anarchonbury)

Jack and Geraint are joined by musician and hardline poster Elijah @KlezmerRouge to discuss banjoist Winston Marshall's recent departure from pop-folk juggernaut Mumford & Sons after he praised an anti-antifascist book by far-right activist Andy Ngo. We talk about folk signifiers as marketing strategy, the cases for and against "going electric" and singing in a British vs. transatlantic/faux-American brogue, and the malign influence of the Mumfords on an older generation of musician. Marshall's rarefied social background and his financier dad's recent history of right-wing provocations are also interrogated, and the word "rarefied" itself used about 500 times. We also get quite excited about pedal steel guitar.

Episode 215 - Folkin' Up (ft. Elijah @KlezmerRouge)

Batley and Spen by-election pre-vote analysis + Geraint's beef with PolProf Steve + more Noel Gallagher, world's first great right-wing podcaster

Episode 214 - Eve of Destruction

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and download this full episode at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53030396 Even more FFF content for ya! He's truly becoming the Noel Gallagher to our Matt Morgan, except even more of an unreconstructed reactionary. This time, however, he's relegated to fourth mic duty, injecting a lethal dose of poison into proceedings after we recorded the more insightful and informative portion of our conversation with Sinan Kose, released last week as episode 212. As well as a little bit on Soundgarden and Sinan's uncanny resemblance to the great Kim Thayil, we mostly get into the usual shit - filling the listener in on the start of Geraint's beef with Professor Steve Fielding (more on that next time), laughing at Sir Keir's polling figures, biting the heads off fictional pro-EU children.

PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 213 - Gaping Hole Sun (ft. Sinan Kose & Farages Fucked Face)

subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52743032 before FFF and I recorded episode 211, we recorded what was actually the main object of that night's session: a commentary track for one of our very favourite films, the 2010 comedy MacGruber (which was in part the subject of one of RP's earliest episodes.) listen along with us here, possibly while watching a copy of the film - we also have a video version of our call that we'll try and upload, although you can't see FFF at all and and the film is laggy as shit on it, and you have to upload videos to patreon through youtube which means COPYRIGHT COPS. apologies also for poor audio quality on FFF's end. with all these caveats, we hope you enjoy! - Jack

PATREON PREVIEW: MacGruber - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary (ft. FFF)

Jack and Geraint are joined by friend of the show Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose on Twitter) to talk the politics in the wake of Starmer Labour's terrible results in the Chesham & Amersham by-election, continued polling decline and personnel turnover, and "Stonger Together" leadership relaunch in anticipation of their predicted loss of the longtime Labour seat of Batley & Spen. Also covered: Noel Gallagher - world's first great right-wing podcaster? Plus the slightly more pertinent matter of the Unite general secretary election. Check out Sinan's Twitch stream - on which we've been frequent guests - here: https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader And listen to our backlog of streams with Sinan here: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/sets/the-sinan-kose-debates

Episode 212 - Stonger Than Milk (ft. Sinan Kose)

subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full near-hour-long episode after recording another trademark RP Audio Commentary Track (for the 2010 classic MacGruber), Jack and FFF talked politics for a bit, in a conversation centred around the reaction to Jeremy Corbyn's appearance at a Cambridge Union debate. we also addressed the unbearable baldness of being Dorian Lynskey, and checked in on Big Gapes and the mad shit she's retweeting about Sam Tarry speaking at "pro-Hamas hatred rallies"

PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 211 - From Ilford To Ramallah (ft. Farages Fucked Face)

Tom and I recently got together for a lovely, if relatively brief, reunion where we hung out at mine, watched some films, listened to about 500 versions of the Civil War-era folk ballad Pretty Peggy-O, and got a lil wavy. The first film we watched, ie the one for which we were most lucid, was Clint Eastwood's 1982 techno-thriller FIREFOX, a tale of aeronautical espionage (unrelated to the titular internet browser) in which the Russian-speaking "Mitchell Gant" (Eastwood) must learn to *think* in Russian in order to fly one of the Soviet Union's state-of-the-art mind-controlled warplanes. As well as a rare venture by Cool Guy Clint into spy movie territory after the divisive and strangely homophobic The Eiger Sanction (1975), Firefox was at the time the most expensive film ever for director/producer/star Eastwood's Malpaso production company, with cutting edge-special effects accounting for more than $20,000,000 of a $21,000,000 budget. If you go on your torrent site of choice, the 1080p copy of Firefox will probably the same one we're watching here, the audio of which we have synced up to the recording of our commentary, so you can do the same with your copy of Firefox. I also own the film on blu-ray, but it's the wrong region for my Russian blu-ray player, so this was my first viewing. До встречи comrades! - Jack

UNLOCKED: Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full commentary and much more besides. Recorded later the same night as our commentary for Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX (which is why Tom briefly falls asleep towards the end) we present the second in what will likely be - for now - a trilogy of RP audio commentaries for "classic" (of whatever esoteric interest to us) films. In this one, Tom introduces me to the work of outsider artist Neil Breen, a distinctly Wiseauean writer/director/star/inventor of fake companies with which to credit himself pseudonymously for odd jobs on his own films. His 2013 film FATEFUL FINDINGS is a strikingly strange piece of work, spanning Lynchian horror, family (melo)drama and high-stakes political thriller in its inability to settle on a genre. In terms of instructions for watching along with us, we kind of fucked up the count-in here, but it should be easy enough to get in sync with Tom and I when you bear in mind that we're watching this precise copy of the film on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vLLNIAvJ9Y - although we do have a sort of built in piss break halfway through the commentary where we pause the film, so don't leave your copy playing during that bit! Writing this all out, this is more complicated than I thought. If you just want to listen, that's ok. Maybe we'll do our own sync of our audio commentary with a video file of the film. Peace! Jack

PATREON PREVIEW: Neil Breen's FATEFUL FINDINGS - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and download the full commentary at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52460824 Tom and I recently got together for a lovely, if relatively brief, reunion where we hung out at mine, watched some films, listened to about 500 versions of the Civil War-era folk ballad Pretty Peggy-O, and got a lil wavy. The first film we watched, ie the one for which we were most lucid, was Clint Eastwood's 1982 techno-thriller FIREFOX, a tale of aeronautical espionage (unrelated to the titular internet browser) in which the Russian-speaking "Mitchell Gant" (Eastwood) must learn to *think* in Russian in order to fly one of the Soviet Union's state-of-the-art mind-controlled warplanes. As well as a rare venture by Cool Guy Clint into spy movie territory after the divisive and strangely homophobic The Eiger Sanction (1975), Firefox was at the time the most expensive film ever for director/producer/star Eastwood's Malpaso production company, with cutting edge-special effects accounting for more than $20,000,000 of a $21,000,000 budget. If you go on your torrent site of choice, the 1080p copy of Firefox will probably the same one we're watching here, the audio of which we have synced up to the recording of our commentary, so you can do the same with your copy of Firefox. I also own the film on blu-ray, but it's the wrong region for my Russian blu-ray player, so this was my first viewing. До встречи comrades! - Jack

PATREON PREVIEW: Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary

We love Kiers Starmer now. Didn't you hear? He did an interview with arch piece of shit Pier Morgan and now we all think he's great and definitely an actual human being as opposed to a soulless neoliberal automaton hell bent on destroying our dreams of a better world. Thank God we (the RP property development firm) have got our Labour Party back.

Episode 210 - Resurrecting Rodney

listen to the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/51789970 by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik leftovers from our session with Will & Luke from Michael & Us + longer politics chat with RP OG Tom F

PATREON PREVIEW: RP209 - The Whole World's Gone Corbyn (ft. Luke Savage, Will Sloan & Tom Foster)

For those for whom our Bob Dylan 80th birthday spectacular was not enough - get even more over at patreon.com/reelpolitik. This is an edit of two sections of the third and final part of our 2020-recorded Rough & Rowdy Ways review, which we released on Patreon in tandem with a newly recorded review on our main feed. These selections concern Dylan's friend Jimmy Buffett. In the full episode we focus on the final two songs of the album, Key West and Murder Most Foul, and conclude our thoughts on the latest remarkable entry in the remarkable output drawn from Dylan's storied career.

PATREON PREVIEW: Episode 207 - A Rough & Rowdy Year (Vol. 3 - Buffettology)

Happy birthday Bob! With Jack and Yair joined by our boy Emmett Cruddas @roof_access, of the band Phil Graves and the Film Graze podcast, we review Bob Dylan's 2003 foray into motion pictures, the Larry Charles (Borat, Bill Maher's Religulous)-directed Masked and Anonymous. This episode was actually recorded precisely a year ago today, on Bob's 79th birthday, but after some delays in the production we decided to hold off til now. Let's hope we're doing another one of these in another 80 years!

Episode 208 - Masked and Anonymous (ft. Emmett Cruddas)

Crazy Moose - Going To Acapulco (Bob Dylan cover)

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