Toasting the Classics

Dave McArthur welcomes guest host Bill Hodges for a discussion of the the 1973 science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1943 wartime children's book Le Petit Prince while drinking imported beer. We didn't say where it was imported to or from!

Dave McArthur invites guest hosts Kevin Doyle and Bill Hodges to discuss the 1985 action blockbuster Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1981 Best Picture winner Ordinary People and the technical aspects of Robert Redford's direction thereof while drinking too many martinis and admitting our kids are in therapy.

Dave McArthur braves the podcasting ether alone to discuss the new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Soul of Nature and the work of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur discuss the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola opus Apocalypse Now while drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. 

Dave McArthur and guest hosts Bill Hodges and Kevin Doyle discuss the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet on the day of the director's passing.

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the purported great American novel, The Great Gatsby while time traveling to jazz age DC with gin rickeys.

Dave McArthur welcomes guest host Kevin Doyle to soberly discuss the 2014 Paul Thomas Anderson film Inherent Vice starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, and Martin Short among others. It's film noir, it's like the Big Lebowski, and it's one of our generation's greatest directors.

Clint Lanier and Dave McArthur go back to where it all began and drink vodka while discussing The Gulag Archipelago, the epic tome that brought down the Soviet Union.