SOBRE ESTE EPISÓDIO
Join Jason and Sam this month as returning guest Liam McCloud saddles up a seat on the fire engine for a discussion of Ron Howard’s 1991 film Backdraft. They also get into Pulsating Door Cinema, The looming Baldwin/Skarsgård Points of Divergence, Casualty!, Celebrity IOU, Fabulous Baker Boys hair, The Pillow Pyro, professionalism as a foundation, Stephen Baldwin’s career that could have been, toxic dynamics in closed structures, Jason making completely unfounded comparisons between US/UK civic structure, Frequency, ‘80s/’90s/Aughts revivals, historic moments in terrible CGI fire, European language questions, Hannibal Lecter and Clint Howard rankings, what it means to Edwige Fenech a film, boxcuts, inciting incidents/object lessons, Sliver, boat parties, OSHA laws, controversial Pacino thoughts, mysteries and subterfuge, a (shocking) secret of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, and the Pete Burns/Glenn Danzig Continuum.
If you’ve been looking to find ways to help the victims of the Los Angeles fires, a good starting place is https://www.mutualaid.la/resources
There’s also a spreadsheet that aggregates GoFundMes, as well as linking out to the Displaced Disabled and Displaced Latine spreadsheets, all of which are collated here: https://tinyurl.com/444f75yv
Our theme music comes courtesy of composer Tim Kutz. Follow him on Twitter @Rockub420 and check out his brand new album at theeuphoricrecall.bandcamp.com/album/side-b.
