JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks

Noah and composer Ana Hausmann sing the praises of 2024's wordless animated wonder, Flow, and how its universal entertainment value delivers layers of deeper mysteries to uncover.

Noah chats with filmmaker Samantha Davidson Green about 2004's romantic tragicomedy sci-fi masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and how its journey through memory, consciousness, and pain make for one of the most human stories put to film.

Nick Arvizu and Noah dive the thought-experiment horror film The Mist, and how the monsters are secondary to the real horror of people caught in a closed environment, not to mention one of the bleakest endings ever put to film.

Filmmaker Mike Purvis sits down with Noah to analyze Woody Allen's 2011 comic fantasy romantic romp Midnight in Paris and what it has to say about the dangers that come with romanticizing the past.

S3 Episode 1: Alan Bern – Recorded December 20, 2025   Photo: Shendi Copitman

“So I got an accordion, I put it on my back, and I went to Europe ... “Do tune in to hear how Alan’s story intertwines music and speech with creativity, compassion, and being Jewish in today’s world. Listen in to hear how the “other” in Other Music Academy is not what you might think and how transcultural work is more about mycelium than bridges. 

Alan and I met in the courtyard of Etz Hayyim Synagogue and this episode was recorded in the city of Chania on the island of Crete. It is the first of this  3rd “season” with the tagline of “voices from afar (and not so far).”  

Give yourself a treat by checking out his work in Weimar and selected music, linked below.

Chico Eastridge educates Noah on the surprising thematic density of the camp musical sensation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the number of interpretations that can be read from it.

Noah and Charlie discuss the unbridled creative, thoughtful, and contagious silliness of 1991's Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, and what makes it a perfect sequel.

Cedar swindles Noah into watching the ultra low-budget outsider film So Long Suburbia that prompts bittersweet reflections on the highs and lows of 2010s pop culture.

Noah chats with actor Matthew Schofield to dive into the film that inspired this show, Robert Altman's 1971 anti-western McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and attempt to break down what makes the film so hauntingly beautiful.

Description: Noah sits down with old friend Joshua Rosen to discuss the Coen Brothers' 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis and how its wintry depiction of artistic struggles resonate now as creatives in a money-driven world.

What makes a movie special to someone? Why do they feel compelled to revisit it time and time again? Is it the technical aspects, the acting, the overall message, a mix of everything? Or is it something that eclipses words? Join Noah Mauchly as he sits down with friends, family, and artists to discuss what "that one movie" is for them and if it's possible to get to the heart of what makes it so special for them.