Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod)

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Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod) episodes

July 05, 2021WarGames (1983)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by 3 time superstar return guest and Managing Editor of Fangoria Magazine, Meredith Borders. We discuss Matthew Broderick’s star making performance in the hacker, Cold War thriller, WarGames. We cover the secret, hacker history of the making of WarGames, the relevance of game theory, and how much we still love Ally Sheedy.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:04:46)

Roundtable Discussion (00:06:36)

Outro (01:08:40)
Notes and Links
Read the WarGames oral history. Much of the behind the scenes details that Meredith brought us comes from investigation and identification of a great Wired magazine article from 2008.
City Acre Brewing. Meredith is one of the owner/operators of an amazing brewpub in Houston, TX.
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 15 min
June 28, 2021Incendies (2010)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Dune Pod graphic designer and co-host the Cinenauts podcast, Ctcher. We discuss Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar nominated, breakout final Canadian feature film, Incendies. We cover the stark beauty Denis captured in the Jordanian desert, the dangers of war and sectarian violence, and how to properly respond to a potential bear attack.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:06:57)

Roundtable Discussion (00:11:57)

Your Letters (01:13:40)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 23 min
June 21, 2021Heretics of Dune (1981)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by spiritual advisor, Protolexus. We discuss the penultimate book in the series, Heretics of Dune. We cover profit as a motive for creating art, a return to actual worldbuilding in the series, and what the actual fuck was going on with including literal Sex Duels in this book.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:08:26)

Roundtable Discussion (00:10:45)

Your Letters (01:14:48)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 26 min
June 14, 2021Inherent Vice (2014)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the co-host, producer, and editor of the 70mm Podcast, Slim. We discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s bizarre paranoia noir, Inherent Vice, starring Dune (2021)’s Josh Brolin. We cover the importance of good hygeine, how the current era has us on edge, and debate appropriate drug use.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:06:56)

Roundtable Discussion (00:12:22)

Your Letters (01:04:09)
Notes and Links
Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.

Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.

Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.

Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert

See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd

Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list

Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 14 min
June 07, 2021Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by co-host of the 70mm Podcast SLASH famous artist, Danny Haas. We discuss the other seminal, ecological sci-fi masterpiece, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. We cover the power of art, the interconnectedness of nature, and how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:06:45)

Roundtable Discussion (00:10:55)

Your Letters (01:03:25)
Notes and Links
Check out Danny’s Ferris Bueler Art Print. See the work Danny did for the John Hughes Exhibit here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 14 min
May 31, 2021I Love You to Death
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by cartoonist and co-host of the Film Hags podcast, Melissa Mendes. We discuss the 1990 dark comedy starring Keanu, River Phoenix, Kevin Kline, Tracy Ullman, and William Hurt, I Love You to Death. We cover monogamy in long term relationships, the appeal of true crime, and the enduring legacy of religion in our lives.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:08:38)

Roundtable Discussion (00:18:48)

Your Letters (01:05:24)
Notes and Links
Check out Mel’s webiste. On the site, you can read her comics and buy here artwork. Check it out at mmmendes.com
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 17 min
May 24, 2021The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the crew of the Lost Light podcast, Jim Lind and Caleb VanDeren. We discuss the 1986 classic animated sci-fi film, The Transformers: The Movie (1986). We cover the importance of succession planning, debate hair metal, and wrestle with mortality following the traumatic deaths of our beloved icons.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:05:45)

Roundtable Discussion (00:11:37)

Your Letters (01:06:38)
Notes and Links
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe comic miniseries. Here’s the miniseries we were discussing with art by the phenomenal Jae Lee! Check it out on ComiXology.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 14 min
May 17, 2021Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by visual effects superstars from Industrial Light & Magic: Todd Vaziri and Lorelei David. We discuss the 2014 science fiction/time travel banger starring Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow. We cover the time travel sci-fi masterpiece Edge of Tomorrow, including out of control marketing departments, complex interconnected storytelling, and why everyone is wrong about CG.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:06:13)

Roundtable Discussion (00:14:53)

Your Letters (01:26:51)
Notes and Links
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.

Dune Pod is now a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! As of the launch of this episode, we’re thrilled to announce that Dune Pod is joining TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and launching soon, Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.

Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert

See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd

Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list

Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries
1 hr 39 min
May 10, 2021Blue Velvet (1986)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Steph Colbourn and Sophie Shin, from the podcast production studio, editaudio. We discuss David Lynch’s direct follow-up to Dune, his 1986 surreal thriller starring Paul Atreides himself, Kyle MacLachlan, Blue Velvet. We cover the seedy underbelly of Americana, the ways standards have changed since 1986, and how this film inspired the generation of directors that came after it.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:05:39)

Roundtable Discussion (00:13:37)

Your Letters (01:19:31)
Notes and Links
WARNING: this episode includes discussion of sexual assault and violence. Blue Velvet, is an important film, but it does feature sexual assault and violence. We have a serious discussion about that topic, so we wanted to warn you in advance. If you need resources around sexual assault, visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization at RAINN.org or call 800-656-HOPE. You are not alone and we stand with you.

TikTok kids are using Parappa the Rappa to understand consent. They are using the track Parappa the Rapper: Instructor Mooselini's Car Rap.

What if Blue Velvet was a Rom Com? Find out via this awesome trailer.

Blue Velvet film critique article. The article Jason was referring to can be found here.

The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.

Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.

Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert

See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd

Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list

Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
1 hr 30 min
May 03, 2021Excalibur (1981)
In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the Founder and CEO of the online game organizing platform Warhorn, Brian Moseley. We cover Gurney Halleck himself, Sir Patrick Stewart’s very first movie, 1981’s epic sword and sorcery film, Excalibur. Topics include the power of a score to make a movie, the dangers of casting your own children as actors in your movie, and we recite the Charm of Making.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)

Dune News (00:07:17)

Roundtable Discussion (00:10:51)

Your Letters (00:56:08)
Notes and Links
The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.

Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.

Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert

See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd

Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list

Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
1 hr 32 min

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Your portal into cinematic pocket universes, fostering community far from the digital chaos. Join co-hosts Haitch and Jason as we welcome special guests and talk about their favorite movies. We love…