Winter arrives and gooses Santos. We discuss the amazing documentary The Witness, the new season of Black Mirror, the Amazon Original comedy Fleabag, a politically-oriented 2-minute Hot Take, Hong Kong action from Johnnie To, and the new movie streaming service Filmstruck

Santos yaps so much about baseball, you'll think we've pivoted to being a baseball podcast. HINT: We haven't. I also talk about the amazing baseball doc Fastball, We argue about the merits of brats and sausages, we talk magicians and David Blaine, we taste healthy snacks, Two-minute hot takes on winning the lottery and Superhero movies. Problems with Closure on NYTimes:Doc

Santos and I declare a fatwah on Caribou Coffee, We talk about where to see amazing short-form documentaries about global culture, we talk West World, a few new film picks for crime lovers, and we intro 2 new sequences for the show: 2-Minute Hot Takes and Problems with Closure

Santos moans about how winter is coming, we have a final discussion about The Night Of and John Turturro. We discuss the new Nick Cave record, Carteland, Vice Principals,  and subscription services including Carnivore Club. Santos contemplates becoming a Ganjaprenuer, Eric sings the praises of Spotify Discover Weekly and much more.

This episode features special guest Kaia Fischer! We taste and talk about Kombucha and Shrubs, Black Market with Michael K Williams, My Favorite Murder podcast, Kaia recommends "layering" an entirely new way to watch media, The movie Heavy by James Mangold, My Friend Rockerfeller, Mubi, Stranger Things and more.

In this episode we debate Podcasts (we know how meta but you won't want to miss the reco's), We talk about The Americans, white wines that don't suck, Rick and Morty's Interdimensional Cable website, and Santos talks about going to concerts by your aged heroes.

In this episode we discuss Jensen Karp's new book Kanye West owes me $300, we taste a flight of Compass Box whiskys, The Witch, the unreleased Prince tracks, and we debate Vinyl vs. Whole House Streaming, Peaky Blinders season 3, and Pimento Jamaican restaurant in MPLS.

In this episode, Eric goes LARPing, we debate which genre benefits society more, documentaries or science fiction. We try a tasting of a variety of cheeses, drink some bullshit sparkling water and a great Rosé. Eric has the pick of the week with a newly discovered (from the great podcast Reply All) blog about life in prison from Paul Modrowski then we hit on some new finds: Finders Keepers and Welcome to Leith both streaming on Netflix then some new vinyl releases from Rhino, the new PJ Harvey and a newly discovered box set from Alan Lomax.

In this episode we discuss Hispanic food in LA, The internet marvel that is Quora, Ms. Marvel and Daniel Clowes comics, Verbatim documentary series from the NYT, Mineral Water, The Magicians on SYFY, and a crazy story about a random stranger with bandages all over his face.

Lots to cover this time around, psyched about Marvel Unlimited and (maybe missing the comic shop visits a little bit), Mubi once again, cannot get enough of Mubi, Amazon Fire and cord cutting in general, the great podcast Surprisingly Awesome,  the Steve McQueen doc The Man & Le Mans, the shitshow that is Orange is the New Black, snack foods of course, and all while tasting a killer Balvenie 12 year.