Poda Bing: a Sopranos retrospective

Poda Bing completes its journey with Tony in the "Bardo". Mayham answered many questions, raised others, gave us Tony back and elevated the series beyond its medium. Literally.

Selected topics discussed/References made:

-Cadillacs and the Mafia

-Luka x LeBron

-Does Vito play Sade's 'Smooth Operator' on his audiophile set up?

-The messiest shootouts in Westerns (3:10 to Yuma, Tombstone & Once Upon a Time in the West)

-The toughest rec center in Essex County

-Don Henley

-The best examples of getting served in cinema

-Cast Away vs Gladiator

-Monks working out to Rocky montages

-Should Chris have been acting boss?

-Janice's influence on Bobby

-Blues Traveler

-When Lillehammer was born

-Vito's coalition building skills

-Horror movie economics

-Slasher films primer

-A&E's moxie (tremendous for its size)

-Soul Asylum

-Complicity

-Ojibwe sayings

-& more

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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Poda Bing's look at Tony in the "Bardo". Join the Club is next level Sopranos (literally and figuratively). Spend some time with the pod and let's go back to Costa Mesa.

Selected topics discussed/References made:

-Book: The Snow Leopard

-Seven Years in Tibet

-The Men's Wearhouse

-The Smiths v. Kanye West

-The Departed

-Mike Tyson

-Ice Cube & the Commerce Clause

-The film Eden & Daft Punk

-Bartenders & Dave Matthews

-Fools Rush In

-Michael Pollan

-Tom Petty

-Long Beach Island

-Drake & Christopher

-Die Hard

-South Coast Plaza

-Diamond Jamboree

-& who are we and where are we going?

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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Poda Bing's look at the beginning of the end of The Sopranos, Members Only: a masterclass episode in setting us up for one more run at this thing of ours.

Topics discussed:

-H.L. Mencken

-West of the Nile

-Janice's favorite Stones song

-The unrelenting Ginny Sack jokes

-The popularity of Fort Myers as a retirement community

-Italian subs

-Hamilton (and John Adams)

-For the love of Mike!

-Warren G. Harding

-Backdraft vs. Johnny Sack

-Sting

-Pontecorvo's options

-& more

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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Vik closes the books on season 5 with a rigorous inquiry on, arguably, the most important and special episode of the series: "All Due Respect"

Topics discussed:

-Temple of the Dog

-Tony B's options

-Tony B's piece

-Van Morrison

-Silvio angling?

-Was Tony on to Larry Boy about something?

-Tony's marksmanship

-The red barn painting was not fu&king scam!

-What character gets what deadly sin attributed to them.

-Can we do something to help out Sal Vitro?

-& more

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Vik parks in LAX's Long Term Parking (but just for an hour) to examine and revisit this classic episode of The Sopranos.

Topics discussed:

-Steroids

-Annie Lennox

-Led Zeppelin

-Deerhunter

-The bigger problem: Adriana or Christopher?

-Did Sanseverino squander a golden opportunity?

-Why's Chris drinking all of a sudden?

-The brilliance of Vincent Curatola

-Past David Chase interviews

-& more

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Vik takes "The Test Dream" on a test drive. This episode also features an impromptu Test Dream-inspired rap. What.

Topics discussed:

-Dream depictions in art, music, tv, and film

-Tame Impala

-A$AP Ferg

-Two of the best lines of the entire series in one episode

-Godfather & Goodfellas references

-Allusion to Westerns, even though we're not making one

-Christopher chomping at the bit

-Zapruder film

-Dirk, Kobe, Shaq, and Mike D'Antoni(?) references

-Why, in addition to Tony, we're not prepared

-& more

More to explore:



On Game Federer, Vik Singh and Brian Clark relive and revisit every Roger Federer Grand Slam title.

On Run it back, Vik Singh looks back at granular moments in basketball history that shaped the game, culture and us.

On Plain Text Ideas, Vik Singh talks to experts, practitioners and thinkers across the spectrum about big ideas and how to see them through.

And on Fake Plastic Podcast, Savannah Wright explores the music of Radiohead through careful analysis and conversation.

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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Vik takes a solo drive up to Kinderhook to revisit 'Cold Cuts'. Later, Lorenzo Antonucci (actor, producer and mastermind behind the Drea de Matteo Poda Bing conversation) stops by to catch up and spend some time at Uncle Pat's, too.

Topics discussed:

-Massive Attack

-Masculinity

-Port Newark

-Vespas

-Radiohead

-Romen & Juliet

-Anger management

-Game of Thrones

-Aaron Rodgers

-& more

Featuring:

Lorenzo Antonucci (@lorenzoantonuccijr on IG), actor, producer, and friend.

More to explore:

On Game Federer, Vik Singh and Brian Clark relive and revisit every Roger Federer Grand Slam title.

On Run it back, Vik Singh looks back at granular moments in basketball history that shaped the game, culture and us.

On Plain Text Ideas, Vik Singh talks to experts, practitioners and thinkers across the spectrum about big ideas and how to see them through.

And on Fake Plastic Podcast, Savannah Wright explores the music of Radiohead through careful analysis and conversation.

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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All archived episodes are available, for free, at https://podabing.show and anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Chris Caldovino, Billy Leotardo on the show, shares his Sopranos story and more.

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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A sampling from some of the best of Poda Bing's second quarantine Zoom trivia.

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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Vik and Ron (aka Sopranos Autopsy) identify as many unidentified aspects of this wonderful episode as possible over two hours.

Topics discussed:

-Mission Viejo

-Masculinity

-Tropes

-Shakespeare & Chase

-Sisco & Beyonce

-Aerosmith

-Abundant intentionality

-Earned sentimentality

-Ways we actively think out loud

Featuring:

Ron Bernard (@sopranos.autopsy on IG), creator and writer of Sopranos Autopsy, a beautifully written reflection and meditation on the entire Sopranos series.

Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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All archived episodes are available, for free, at https://podabing.show and anywhere you listen to podcasts.