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Nick “The Tooth” Gullo is a 2x IBJJF Jiu Jitsu Black Belt world champion, co-host of the Infinite Worlds podcast, a writer, lawyer, world traveler, TV Star—and most importantly for this NYE resolution conversation, is absolutely shredded in his 50s.

He joins us for the second time to discuss discipline, keto dieting, being kind to yourself, internet hucksters (Liver King, etc.), toxic masculinity, toxic acceptance, male energy, self-help cults, goal setting, and a lot more.

This episode doesn’t have any horror movie content, but you’ll like it if you enjoyed the previous Self Help for Nihilists episodes.

The second half of Stranger Things 4 was fun. Even Argyle and Lucas managed to have great moments. In this episode we talk about why this season won us over, how drugs help with the enjoyment of art, whether or not there are epochs (and if music in the 80s was one), and whether or not it makes sense to have naked heavy metal girls on a character’s wall if it upsets modern sensibilities.

Grady Hendrix’s Final Girl Support Group (2021) is a love letter to the golden age of slasher movies. This episode is essentially a love letter to the author—even if we do have our crusty quibbles about a few bits. We talk about the difference between metafiction and nostalgia, Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence, murderabilia, Final Girls as a concept, and a little background on how you might end up in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric department.

We recommend pairing this listen with Peaches Christ and Michael Varrati’s third episode of their podcast, Midnight Mass. It covers Friday the 13th and features interviews with the final girl star of that film, Adrienne King; as well as a great interview with Grady Hendrix.

Our friend Daniel Coffeen (Zero Books, Renegade University) returns to help us appraise Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker. We survey the various controversies surrounding the film while discussing class, resentment (you can use the fancy critical theory/French pronunciation), alienation, and Joaquin Phoenix’s dancerly grace and peculiar improvisations. And we make time to celebrate Marc becoming a citizen of the USA.

Sylvie Simmons meets with Marc Kate for the 45th episode of Why We Listen to listen to and discuss:

Leonard Cohen – ‘Suzanne’
David Bowie – ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide’
Serge Gainsbourg – ‘Ballade De Melody Nelson’

Sylvie Simmons is a writer and musician.

http://sylviesimmons.com

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Episode 43 of Why We Listen is a panel discussion between
Roger Linn
Dave Smith
Keith McMillen
Tom Oberheim
and Jessica Rylan
moderated by Marc Kate as part of the Don Buchla Memorial Concerts.

It was an opportunity to reminisce about the legendary electronic instrument designer and pioneer.

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Thanks for listening.