On today’s show, we’re joined in-studio by special guest Sean Ahern for a deep dive into the seminal 90s hip-hop track “N.Y. State of Mind” by the one and only Nas, aka Nasty Nas, aka the King of Queensbridge, and one of the great rap lyricists of all time. We’ll discuss the track in depth and take a look at his career as well as some of his hip-hop contemporaries in the history of New York rap and the genre as a whole.

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“Halftime” on the Zebra Head Soundtrack

Nas’ track on Breaking Atoms by Main Source: “Live at the Barbecue”

The “Yeah!” sample - from Mountain’s “Long Red”

“It Ain’t Hard to Tell” Demo

The World Is Your’s 

Ahmad Jamal Trio sample: I Love Music

Kool & the Gang “Live at P.J.s”

The “Flight Time” Sample from Donald Byrd

The Joe Chambers song Mind Rain

Tour by Capleton

Eric B and Rakim “Mahogany”

Miss Info's podcast with Nas called “The Bridge

A look at Queensbridge

A short history of Queensbridge

good aerial view (go to 1:58 - 2:27)

All about the Berghof

To Scale: Time

Universe Size Comparison

Key and Peele: What It’s Like Being Married to Neal DeGrasse Tyson

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On today’s show, we’re finally finishing the entirety of our Oscars coverage with our reactions to the big night, all of the winners and losers, and more importantly, the winners and losers in our own in-house competition. 

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On today’s show, we’re thrilled to be joined for the entire show by Mark Schaffer, a friend and fellow cinephile, who is sitting in for our first annual Oscars Prediction Show. We’ll be picking our Will Wins and Should Wins in all of the major categories and most of the minor ones in advance of the big show on Sunday, March 15.  

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On today’s show, we’re dipping into the grab back to talk about a few miscellaneous items that are currently populating our headspaces, mainly TV, movies and some Oscars talk. 

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On today’s show, we’re discussing Week 2 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games, mainly the two Gold Medal hockey games, plus a few other items sprinkled in. And then we’re digging into the career of the late, great American actor Robert Duvall, who died on February 15.

Nazgul the Dog

NYT Article About John Irving's Olympian Grand-children

"I love the smell of Napalm in the morning."

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On today’s show, we’re breaking down lots of the action from the first ten days of the Winter Olympics in Milano and Cortina Italy. 

Valentine's Energy on the Soccer Pitch

Colin Jost's Bobsled Run

Great Downhill Crashes

Pinheiro Braaten, First South American Winter Medalist

Federica Brignon's National championships crash

John Fahey - On the Sunny Side of the Ocean and Spanish Two-Step

The Alabama Solution Trailer

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On today’s show, we’re continuing our conversation about Mountaineering movies, coming on the heels of Netflix’s recent spectacle of spectacular, Skyscraper Live, starring the unstoppable Alex Honnold. Honnold will feature in this conversation as well as another notable Alex as we dig into more films from this compelling subgenre.

Arctic Ascent Greenland with Alex Honnold

Tour of Alex Honnold's Home Gym

Alex Honnold's TED Talk

Before Free Solo - Edge of the Unknown with Jimmy Chin

The Wildest Dream - Mallory and Everest Documentary

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On today’s show, we’re discussing Skyscraper Live, the new Netflix docu-spectacle about Alex Honnold’s attempt to climb a skyscraper, and coupling that conversation with Part 1 of a 3-part deep dive into the world of climbing and mountaineering movies.

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On today’s show, we’re talking 2026 Oscar Nominations, with our hot takes on the nominees in all of the big categories. 

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For the final show of our first year(!) we’re digging into the Grab Bag to talk about several things that have been banging around the Harperama offices in recent weeks, including a spirited conversation about the encroaching influence of AI on artistry, a recap of the recent Golden Globes awards, a chat about the fonts used in movies, and a bit about films with a colon in their title.

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