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Mike Flanagan had the same first reaction a lot of people did to another Carrie adaptation: “Why?” and he tells Kyle Meredith that he wouldn’t touch Stephen King’s story until he had a good answer, which meant looking at what cruelty, bullying, empathy, and being a teenager mean right now. The writer/director, along with Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Amber Midthunder, Matthew Lillard, Alison Thornton, Josie Totah, Joel Oulette, and Arthur Conti join Kyle to dig into the month of rehearsals, Flanagan’s no-phones and no-sides rules, finding sympathy in characters who do some awful things, and how Totah turned Tina into a role Flanagan initially didn’t even like. And then there’s Conti, who looks great behind the wheel of that muscle car despite failing two driving tests and having somebody in a wig do the actual driving.

Listen to Mike Flanagan, Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Amber Midthunder, Matthew Lillard, Alison Thornton, Josie Totah, Joel Oulette, and Arthur Conti chat about all this and more or watch it on YouTube. Please take the time to like, review, and subscribe to KMW wherever you get your podcasts, and keep up to date with all our series by following the Consequence Podcast Network.

Laraine Newman is all for scaring the kids a little. The Saturday Night Live original cast member talks with Kyle Meredith about returning as Granny Relda for season two of The Sisters Grimm, why the show’s mix of comedy and horror works just as well for adults, and how she can pull the character’s voice right back out of the trunk when it’s time to record. Newman also looks back at studying mime with Marcel Marceau, explains why she bailed when mime “got cute,” and admits it didn’t exactly inform her acting, although it did make her very good at Pilates. Along the way, Kyle and Newman also land on the career move nobody knew we needed: punk-rock mime.

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What happens when the world gets darker and the music starts absorbing it? In this KMW Rewind, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner talks with Kyle Meredith about reuniting for Cry Cry Cry, why the band had to prove they could still write together before returning to the stage, and how political disillusionment found its way into songs like “Weaponized” and “Artificial Life.” Then The Black Angels’ Alex Maas digs into Death Song, the band’s connection to psychedelic history, the meaning behind the album’s title, and why he sees music as therapy rather than simply entertainment. Two conversations from 2017, and plenty of ideas that haven’t exactly stopped being relevant.

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Theo Rossi wants movies that leave you arguing in the parking lot. The Sons of Anarchy and Emily the Criminal star talks with Kyle Meredith about Come With Me, playing Simon as an ordinary guy enduring a “death by a thousand cuts,” and why the film was built to let audiences wrestle with whether he’s a victim or a villain rather than hand them an answer. Rossi also makes the case that we may be living through a new golden age of independent film, explains why actors can’t afford to “just be an actor” anymore, and talks about taking control of his career through producing, including The Saviors and his first rom-com, Maid of Dishonor, with Emily Hampshire. Also Prince, The Thing, Highlander, and the eternal question of whether your kids think the movies you grew up loving are actually any good all find their way in.

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Modern English frontman Robbie Grey talks with Kyle Meredith about reuniting the band’s original lineup for 2017’s Take Me to the Trees, recapturing the fire of Mesh & Lace and After the Snow, and writing “You’re Corrupt” amid Trump, Brexit, and widening inequality. Then Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook takes the focus as he and Tom Spencer discuss rebuilding The Professionals without Steve Jones, creating a more contemporary version of the band’s poppy punk sound, and calling in famous friends to complete the album. Cook also looks back at the chaos surrounding the original Professionals and what it meant to keep that punk energy alive while “growing old disgracefully,” years before the band ultimately called it a day in 2024.

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Peaches is done with “me versus them,” but she’s definitely not done fighting. Talking with Kyle Meredith, Peaches digs into No Lube So Rude, her first album in a decade, and how a world getting more polarized pushed her back toward new music, while menopause, aging, sexuality, and the need for some actual communication all found their way into the songs. She also talks about growing older alongside the fans who first found her 25 years ago, the wild public reactions to political drag artist Jenna Marvin while filming the “You’re All Rights” video in Paris, and turning old opera costumes into something much stranger for her new live show. Turns out the lube is literal, political, generational, and maybe exactly what everybody needs.

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Sometimes keeping an old band alive means making sure it never turns into an oldies act. On this KMW Rewind, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan and The Dead Milkmen’s Joe Jack Talcum talk with Kyle Meredith about why new music still matters decades into their careers, with McCaughan looking back at the urgency and anxiety that fueled What a Time to Be Alive and Talcum explaining why The Dead Milkmen only agreed to reunite if they kept writing. They also get into finding creativity inside a longtime band, balancing solo work with the group, and how punk can respond to the world without simply turning songs into newspaper headlines.

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David Dastmalchian is building M. Bison from the cult leader up. Talking with Kyle Meredith, the actor says the new Street Fighter finds Bison before he’s mastered Psycho Power, which meant digging into dictators, religious movements, and the psychology of getting people to follow you instead of simply playing the big bad boss. He also gets into the Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Joy Division, Nick Cave, and John Williams-heavy playlist he used to get into character, why director Kitao Sakurai’s practical, anything-goes approach made the set feel like living inside a video game, and becoming friends with co-star Orville Peck. Dastmalchian also talks Grave Conversations, why putting celebrities in coffins gets them opening up fast, and how Good Fiend Films has become a landing spot for the kind of horror, sci-fi, comic book, and genre stories where the weird stuff can still carry some big ideas.

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Songs have lives of their own, and some political ones have an unfortunate habit of becoming relevant all over again. In this KMW Rewind, Valerie June talks with Kyle Meredith across two archival conversations about drawing from spirituals and early blues, teaching herself to play around her voice, and making Pushing Against the Stone and The Order of Time, while Billy Bragg explains why protest writers need to spend as much time on the song as the protest. Along the way, June recalls recording with her family and writing the title track to Mavis Staples’ Livin’ on a High Note, while Bragg reveals how posing as a TV repairman helped launch his career.

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Jeff Arcuri nearly canceled Nice to Meet You before therapy, trusted comic friends, and a month away from the footage helped him see what he had made. The comedian talks with Kyle Meredith about how corporate gigs, cruise ships, and 15 years of stand-up shaped his crowd work, while the Netflix special finally proves there’s much more to his act than improvisation. Arcuri also opens up about finding the right way to address his wife Katie’s cancer diagnosis, the strange sadness that followed the taping, adjusting his delivery overseas, and already having enough material for a new hour that he now needs to start cutting jokes.

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