Dan and Adam Are Afraid

As dangerous. As intense. As love. This week, Dan and Adam are joined by Brizzle to continue their journey through the work of Leos Carax with Annette (2021), a surreal, Sparks-driven rock opera about love, grief, and prison. So may we start?

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- Dan Complains
- Does Adam Think JD Vance is Pretty Cool?

8:21 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

42:08 Film Discussion

01:27:46 Next Week's Episode - The Smashing Machine (2025)


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IMDB Summary:
A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.

Director:
Leos Carax

Starring:
Adam Driver
Marion Cotillard
Simon Helberg
Devyn McDowell
Russell Mael
Ron Mael

Love is a knife. Faith is a monster... This week, Dan and Adam are joined by The Honorable Mr. Jason to unravel Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 psychosexual horror masterpiece Possession. The divorce of East and West Berlin.

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- R.I.P. Kavinsky

5:40 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

52:03 Film Discussion

01:33:51 Next Week's Episode - Annette (2021)


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IMDB Summary:
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Director:
Andrzej Żuławski

Starring:
Isabelle Adjani
Sam Neill
Margit Carstensen
Heinz Bennent
Carl Duering
Shaun Lawton

It takes a long time to be able to play like yourself... This week, Dan and Adam talk Don Cheadle's impressionistic Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead. Kill the trumpet player.

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell (2026)

9:07 Trailer Reel
- Hot Spot (2026)
- By Any Means (2026)
- Behemoth! (2026)
- Hope (2026)

15:24 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

01:07:51 Film Discussion

01:41:05 Next Week's Episode - Possession (1981)


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IMDB Summary:
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Director:
Don Cheadle

Starring:
Don Cheadle
Ewan McGregor
Emayatzy Corinealdi
Lakeith Lee Stanfield
Michael Stuhlbarg

Shallow Hal needs a gal ! This week, the inner-beauty believers are joined by Brizzle and Tyler to confront The Farrelly Brothers' 2001 outrageous romantic comedy film Shallow Hal. A pre-9/11 weapons-grade carnival of delusion and gross-out body-panic

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- R.I.P. Sam Neill

7:11 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

55:48 Film Discussion

01:35:46 Next Week's Episode - Miles Ahead (2015)


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IMDB Summary:
A superficial man now sees only the inner beauty of a very fat woman.

Director(s):
Peter Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly

Starring:
Jack Black
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jason Alexander
Rene Kirby
Joe Viterelli
Jill Christine
Susan Ward
Zen Gesner
Joshua Shintani
Nan Martin
Brooke Burns
Kyle Gass
Laura Kightlinger
Tony Robbins
Molly Shannon
Daniel Greene

Dan and Adam open their hearts. This week, the Ramoji romantics step into the world of Shouryuv and endure his 2023 love-and-memory-loss epic Hi Nanna.

0:00 Trailer Reel
- The Social Reckoning (Aaron Sorkin)
- Klara and the Sun (Taika Waititi)
- The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
- Dune: Part Three (Denis Villeneuve)
- Werwulf (Robert Eggers)

23:56 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

55:58 Film Discussion

01:38:34 Next Week's Episode - Shallow Hal (2001)


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IMDB Summary:
A single father begins to narrate the story of the missing mother to his child and nothing remains the same.

Director:
Shouryuv

Starring:
Nani
Mrunal Thakur
Kiara Khanna
Jayaram
Priyadarshi Pulikonda
Angad Bedi
Shilpa Tulaskar
Shruti Haasan

Dan and Adam REBORN. This week, your narrators divebomb into S. S. Rajamouli's 2012 tone-snapping love-and-vengeance tale Eega. Meet your maker.

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- America's 250th Birthday
- 20th Century Mind
- Cinema is a Meaning-Producing Machine
- Curiosity is Not a Universal Human Trait

12:41 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

49:18 Film Discussion

01:37:35 Next Week's Episode - Hi Nanna (2023)


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IMDB Summary:
Nani loves Bindu but is killed by a jealous Sudeep, who lusts after Bindu. Nani is reincarnated as a fly and decides to avenge his death. He teams up with Bindu to make Sudeep's life a living hell.

Director:
S. S. Rajamouli

Starring:
Sudeep
Nani
Samantha
Adithya Menon
Thagubothu Ramesh

YOU WISHED FOR THIS... This week, the trivia night champions enter the mind of Curry Barker and talk 2025's haunting love-story-from-hell Obsession. A conversation only the branch of a willow tree could conjure...

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- Closing Doors on Cats
- Jazz Club
- Soccer Hooligans

7:06 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

01:19:35 Film Discussion

01:57:39 Next Week's Episode - Eega (2012)

01:58:18 Brizzle's Teen Vogue Interview


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IMDB Summary:
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director:
Curry Barker

Starring:
Michael Johnston
Inde Navarrette
Cooper Tomlinson
Megan Lawless
Haley Fitzgerald
Darin Toonder
Andy Richter

A bolt of lightning in every bottle... With Adam missing, Dan, Brizzle, and Joey tackle the reality-bending labyrinth of Matt Johnson's 2025 time-traveling extravaganza Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. If you've got a best friend, you won't even notice getting older.

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- Adam is out
- Gregg Araki's New Trailer for I Want Your Sex

10:16 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

01:09:12 Film Discussion

01:57:34 Next Week's Episode - Obsession (2025)


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IMDB Summary:
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Director:
Matt Johnson

Starring:
Matt Johnson
Jay McCarrol
Jared Raab
Ben Petrie
Ethan Eng
Michael Scott
Reid Janisse

Dan, Adam, and new friend Brizzle roll into East L.A... This week, the trio seeks out the sun-scorched saga of Taylor Hackford's 1993 Mexican-American crime epic Blood In, Blood Out. Vatos Locos forever, homes !

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- Our new friend Brizzle
- Adam saw Obsession
- Did a ghost direct Backrooms?

13:12 June 2026 Trailer Reel
- Disclosure Day (Final Trailer)
- Ice Cream Man (Official Red Band Trailer)
- Onslaught (Official Trailer)
- Primetime (Official Teaser)
- Wild Horse Nine (Official Trailer)

37:53 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

01:45:53 Film Discussion

01:59:58 Next Week's Episode - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025)


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IMDB Summary:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.

Director:
Taylor Hackford

Starring:
Jesse Borrego
Benjamin Bratt
Enrique Castillo
Damian Chapa
Delroy Lindo
Tom Wilson
Ving Rhames
Victor Rivers
Carlos Carrasco
Billy Bob Thornton
Teddy Wilson
Danny Trejo
Lupe Ontiveros

Damn these crossroads ! As great trumpets speak, our poor heroes realize too late that these are funeral horns ! This week, Dan and Adam are feeling sad about going home. To celebrate their 100th episode, the Orphans of the Forest revisit the distorted, guilt-warped cosmos of Ari Aster's 2023 surrealist tragicomedy Beau Is Afraid. Mice in a maze, hallucinating from paranoia to condemnation. Dan and Adam FOREVER<3

0:00 Pre-Discussion
- Obsession
- I Love Boosters
- Plot Holes and Tonal Confusion
- Nicolas Winding Refn's New Trailer for Her Private Hell

11:21 Behind-the-Scenes Discussion

1:04:26 Film Discussion


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IMDB Summary:
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

Director:
Ari Aster

Starring:
Joaquin Phoenix
Nathan Lane
Amy Ryan
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Hayley Squires
Denis Ménochet
Kylie Rogers
Parker Posey
Patti LuPone
Armen Nahapetian
Julia Antonelli
Zoe Lister-Jones
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Richard Kind
Hayley Squires
Julian Richings
Bill Hader
Michael Gandolfini
Michael Esper
Manuel Tadros
Alicia Rosario