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Note: This episode was originally recorded and released in June 2019 during a series on the films of Joel and Ethan Coen at the Trylon. We've republished it to coincide with the Trylon's showing of RAISING ARIZONA as part of the NIC CAGE: NATIONAL TREASURE series that screened in the summer of 2022. We didn't really know what we were doing with this show back then, but we're still pretty happy with how the conversation went. Thanks for coming back.

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Featuring special guest Eric Leith!

Aren't we all H.I. "Hi" McDunnough, trying to prove to ourselves and those we care about that we can change despite all odds? Fighting against the ghosts of our past while squaring with the geist of our present, occasionally scraping our knuckles on the popcorn ceiling of prescriptive social rhetoric? And whom among us can claim to not be former cop Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, whose career and lifestyle ambitions seem increasingly at odds with the realities afforded to her in the shadow of late stage capitalism?

It's a comedy.

This episode is the third in a short series on a selection of Coen Brothers films screened at the Trylon Cinema in 2019.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.