Here we go: aliens, conspiracies, the nature of consciousness, and the deep state. With the Steven M. Greer doc "Unacknowledged" as our launch pad, A&E take on each of these topics in turn, if for no other reason than to wax poetic on our favorite rock band #Clutch.

A&E read the Ukraine-Russia war through the Laibach documentary film Predictions of Fire in an effort to come to grips with the fact that too many predictions seem to be actualizing. The end is nigh or something. But: there's a union within Amazon!

The hills are alive and A&E chat Paul Schrader's film The Card Counter as a way into a discussion of the events unfolding in Ukraine.

Reconsidering Martin Scorsese's 2006 film The Departed, A&E chat Boston, Catholicism, ideology, James Joyce, the Irish and, finally, if Marky Mark Wahlberg's Dignam is right when he quipped "What Freud said about the Irish is: We’re the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis."

The boys unrepress our respectively repressed Catholicisms in a discussion of Ken Russell's incredible and oft-banned 1971 film The Devils. Long and short is that on the 50th anniversary of its release, The Devils is less historical drama than history of the present. In nomine Domini.

One night only and back by popular demand. The lads double-down on Jay Baruchel's Goon franchise to chat transcendence, baton passing, and how the only way out of our predicament may require plunging ourselves down to the cold cold bottom of this dirty old town.

The bros share their experience of hockey as an idea and a source of harassment and/or transcendence via discussions of the Jay Baruchel film "Goon" (2011) and the Netflix documentary on the Danbury, Connecticut, minor league squad the Trashers: "Untold: Crimes and Penalties" (2021).

A&E chat Denis Villeneuve's latest dark sci-fi bonanza Dune and wonder where we can get some of that super spice for white people.

A&E chat the new Todd Haynes film The Velvet Underground and explore why it was that Bob Dylan temporarily quit the game. Spoiler alert: not a motorcycle accident.

A&E continue our discussion of David Fincher's masterpiece Fight Club, this time talking Marla, feminism, the Left, and the existence of women in psychoanalysis.