Reel Politik Podcast

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a politics, film & music podcast, featuring exhaustive coverage of the life and career of former Member of Parliament for Ilford South Michael John Gapes. "slick" - the Observer, "lefty hate trolls" - the Daily Mail

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Reel Politik Podcast episodes:

04.09.2024
Jack calls into Top Rope Deep Dive's Stone Cold Steve Austin episode
Following his hit appearance on RP co-host Geraint @wariotifo's hit wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive the other week, Jack realises he has the ability on Discord to call into, and sabotage, the other guys' streams at any time. Check out...
04.09.2024
Episode 287 - Refuting John Galzer
Jack and Yair talk about the unhinged response to Jonathan Glazer's acceptance speech for Best Director at the Oscars, Lex Friedman's five-hour Finkelstein-Destiny debate on Palestine, and the continued efforts by Starmer's Labour to big up Margaret Thatcher.
04.01.2024
Top Rope Deep Dive: Chris Jericho (ft. Jack Frayne-Reid)
Special guest Jack joins Geraint, FFF and friend of the show @MarkedAsRed on their weekly wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive to discuss the life and career - and watch some great wrestling moments - of Canadian-American wrestler, podcaster, musician...
03.26.2024
Episode 286 - Rockin' and A-Rollin' At Mar-a-Lago
Jack and Geraint (@wariotifo) present extremely timely post-match analysis of the "funny" Rochdale by-election. But first, Geraint flies to Mar-a-Lago, Florida to interview somebody professing to be Beach Boys legend Mike Love.
03.09.2024
Episode 285 - Get Hi
Jack and Yair break down shocking new "smoking gun" evidence that has come to light suggesting Keir Starmer is agent of CIA. Then the rest of the episode is basically about another knight of the realm, Sir Paul McCartney, his...
02.27.2024
GAPEFEST - A Weekend of Music & Milk (Director's Cut)
More than 200 innocent people lost their lives at Ilford South's infamous "GAPEFEST" music festival, which has been dogged by allegations of widespread financial corruption, endemic drug abuse, animal cruelty, human branding and vampirism. In this feature-length documentary - previously...
02.26.2024
Episode 284 - Harbu Darbu (ft. Lilah @palebloodstasi)
Returning guest Lilah @palebloodstasi (formerly @leechwaifu) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint once again to talk Scottish issues, the chaotic Rochdale byelection, the beautiful mind of Eddie Marsan, and Chairman Gonzalo of the Shining Path, among many other subjects. We also...
02.04.2024
Episode 283 - The Dauphin of Podcasting
Lots to catch up on: Labour's continued support for collective punishment of Gaza, suspension of Kate Osamor, and efforts at outreach to online influencers. Journalist Paul Waugh's unsuccessful attempt to get selected by the party as a parliamentary candidate, and...
01.31.2024
RP282 Extra - Cobenology
Following their discussion of the Chabad tunnel controversy, Jack tells Yair all about the vast multitudes of virtually interchangeable Netflix original thriller series based on the work of author Harlan Coben.
01.22.2024
UNLOCKED: Episode 169 - Jewison & DeVito's Guide To Neoliberalism (Part 2: 1979-2003)
NOTE: This episode was originally released in October 2020 on patreon.com/reelpolitik, but we've decided to release it for free in light of Norman Jewison's death. We'd already made the first in this two-parter available for free on this very feed...
01.18.2024
Episode 282 - Tunnel of G-d
Yair tells Jack about his decision to burn his Israeli passport, before the two seek to get to the bottom of the very funny Chabad tunnel scandal, and the organisation's extensive links to Bob Dylan and Yair's grandad.
01.08.2024
Yair on burning his Israeli passport
Reel Politik podcast co-host and British-American-Israeli citizen Yair Rice ceremonially burns his Israeli passport in protest at the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Can't really add anything more to this that Yair doesn't cover in the vid, but the RP...
01.06.2024
Episode 281 - What's the Deal (ft. FFF)
To kick off RP for 2024, we return by popular demand to the English-language, western-targeted comedy sketches of Eretz Nehederet, the "Israeli Saturday Night Live", as well as the YouTube content of their celebrity guest Michael Rapaport. After an absence...
01.01.2024
New Year's Eve (Tom Waits cover)
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12.11.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP280 Extra
Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full RP Extra @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/94462789. We review Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher. Yair was whisked away due to unavoidable parental responsibilities, so the last half hour is our...
12.10.2023
Episode 280 - The Obituary Section
A morbid episode this week, as Jack and Yair pour one out for the dearly departed trinity of Henry Kissinger, Shane MacGowan and Alistair Darling. PLUS cuts to the BBC's Newsnight, the resumption of violence in Gaza, & Starmer saying...
12.05.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP279 Extra (ft. @leechwaifu)
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full 53 extra minutes of Lilah here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94145707 In the rest of our conversation with Lilah @leechwaifu, we talk about our most problematic centrist associates, our most problematic associate in general FFF's Israel fundraiser...
12.05.2023
UNLOCKED: Jim Davidson's Right-Wing Streaming Service (RP273 Extra)
This 45 min segment was originally released as part of a longer RP Extra on patreon.com/reelpolitik. The original description is as follows: Geraint and Jack investigate politically incorrect British comedian Jim Davidson's new streaming service USTREME ("laugh like you used to")...
11.28.2023
Episode 279 - Octopus Energy (ft. @leechwaifu)
Longtime friend of the show Lilah (@leechwaifu on Twitter) makes her Reel Politik debut to provide live commentary on a series of English-language comedy sketches from Israel's most renowned satire show, Eretz Nehederet, designed to put a positive spin on...
11.23.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP278 Extra (ft. @phased_bemused)
Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full 70 mins of new material @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp278-extra-ft-93410023 The order of proceedings in this RP Extra is as follows: - Dundee vs. Glasgow (extended), Welsh Hamas tunnels, Guardian collecting details of Palestine supporters, Benjamin Butterworth/Byron...
11.17.2023
Episode 278 - Openly Welsh (ft. @phased_bemused)
Returning legend Steffan @phased_bemused AKA Shrieking Tinman joins Jack and Geraint to talk Welsh issues, Captain Tom, furries, Sleaford Mods, Rumble, boycotting Radiohead, and all the usual anti-Starmer/Israel shit. In the middle of all this, Jack reviews Martin Scorsese's powerful...
11.10.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP275-6 Extra
A preview of our last two patreon.com/reelpolitik exclusives, featuring a Jack/Yair discussion of Bill Maher from a full hour of chat by the deadly duo, followed by one from our new Jack/Geraint bonus episode, in which we run through all...
11.09.2023
Episode 277 - Armistice Weekend Special
In celebration of definitely-real phenomenon of "armistice weekend" and the glories of war, Jack and Geraint review Ian Brown's 2007 anti-Iraq War, anti-Israeli occupation, anti-child poverty protest album The World Is Yours, which contains brilliant Sinéad O'Connor-aided masterpiece 'Illegal Attacks',...
11.03.2023
Episode 276 - Concrete Facts
This episode was certified by the official Reel Politik factchecker as containing CONCRETE FACTS. As requested by one listener, Geraint and Jack run down the rogue's gallery of right-wing shitbags and Sebags among the signatories of British pro-Israel petition "the October...
11.01.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP274 Extra
the long-awaited episode 274 now finally gets its equally long-awaited RP Extra, this time pretty much one as lengthy as a standard episode. we talk about Israel and Palestine for another half an hour or so, and then get on...
10.27.2023
Episode 275 - Illegal Attacks
Jack and Yair talk about Israel and Palestine. Yair details his efforts to formally renounce his Israeli citizenship, and Jack fills him on on Keir Starmer's trip to the South Wales Islamic Centre. PLUS Piers Morgan, OctopusGate, funny propaganda &...
10.20.2023
Episode 274 - Exhuming McCarthy
Jack, Geraint and Yair discuss the Labour Party's 2023 conference and, more importantly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. NOTE: This episode was recorded last Tuesday, so already some of it has been rendered somewhat dated. But basically the Labour shit is in the...
10.09.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP273 Extra
Hear the full hour of material at https://www.patreon.com/posts/90652547 by subscribing to patreon.com/reelpolitik. Pretty substantive and more-focused-than-usual RP Extra here today, though, as Geraint and I spend the vast bulk of it investigating politically incorrect British comedian Jim Davidson's new streaming service...
10.05.2023
Episode 273 - The Modern Game
Jack and Geraint convene to talk about the Rory Stewart scandal, wherein the centrist ex-Tory and podcaster was the subject of antisemitism allegations after he issued the mildest possible defence of Jeremy Corbyn on constitutional grounds, and what this tells...
09.28.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP271-2 Extra
A preview of our last two Patreon episodes, featuring Jack, Yair and Geraint discussing Oasis and "going Welsh", and Jack and Yair talking about hit motion picture Sound of Freedom. These are just two of the myriad topics touched on...
09.26.2023
Episode 272 - My Dogz Iz My Gunz
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Remus the dog, a beloved pet of fourteen years, although it was recorded while he was still with us. Jack and Yair convene for a loose chat concerning new Labour MP Keir Mather...
09.16.2023
Episode 271 - Shoe Factory
Jack, Geraint and Yair run down the latest ultra-Blairite changes to Sir Keir Starmer's top team, read Simon Hattenstone's excellent Guardian profile of shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/if-you-want-cartwheels-im-not-your-person-rachel-reeves-on-charisma-u-turns-and-rescuing-the-economy), and discuss Ed Balls and Robert Peston's "surprisingly punk" new rock band...
09.13.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP270 Extra (ft. @phased_bemused)
Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik and hear the full 75 min bonus episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/88975048, plus one like it for every new episode we put out. INCLUDES: - Bob Dylan and reggae - Harold & Kumar + the Obama administration - weed (Stefan's experiences) - (more) Paul...
09.03.2023
Episode 270 - Cymric Nonsense (ft. @phased_bemused)
DISCLAIMER: RP listener @MarkedAsRed points out that this episode should've been called 'Cym Town'. We apologise for dropping the (cym-filled) ball on that one. Jack and Geraint are joined by official RP Welsh Correspondent Stefan AKA Shrieking Tinman AKA @phased_bemused to...
08.26.2023
Episode 269 - bröther may i have some gäpes (ft. Sinan Kose)
Exiled Twitter renegade Sinan Kose of the Peace at Home Podcast (@PeaceAtHomePod) joins Jack & Geraint (@wariotifo) for a mammoth episode revisiting the self-published/self-exculpatory oral history of 2019's hottest new centrist party Change UK The Independent Group. WARNING: Contains *many*...
08.25.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP269 Extra (ft. Sinan Kose)
rehashing our biggest scandal with Comrade Sinan. sign up & hear the full 75 mins of RP EXTRA here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp269-extra-ft-88246779
08.21.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP267-8 Extra
A preview of our last two Patreon episodes, featuring Jack, Yair and Geraint discussing America's #1 song 'Try That In A Small Town', and Jack and FFF bitching about who they hate on the left. The RP Extra drawn from the...
08.19.2023
Episode 268 - Louis and the Freaks
Jack, Yair and Geraint review Louis Theroux's three-part BBC documentary series, "Forbidden America", which aired in February 2022 and covers the US far-right, trap and soundcloud rap, and the porn industry. Inevitably, we end up comparing these recent films to...
08.08.2023
Episode 267 - Reading Pod Save America Episode Titles (ft. FFF)
In what can be construed as either another misguided attempt to break the American market, or an attempt to explain the peculiarities of American culture to our UK audience, Jack spends almost an hour reading the names of episodes of...
08.03.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP266 Extra (ft. Jude Wanga)
Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full hour+ of additional material here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp266-extra-ft-87114740 AKA "British Blues Corner" My rationale for dividing up my 2-hour-and-change convo with our good friend Jude (@judeinlondon) was basically anything Bruce in the main episode, and anything non-Bruce...
08.03.2023
Episode 266 - Tell 'Em Bruce Starmer Out (ft. Jude Wanga)
Friend of the show Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon) joins Jack to review the Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band show they saw at Hyde Park last month. Jack also talks a bit about his own grand return to live musical performance...
07.30.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP264-5 Extra
We are hoping to get a corresponding one of these little Extra episodes out for every main episode we release. Of our recent episodes, only the wrestling and Lulu ones have failed to yield one, in great part because those...
07.27.2023
Episode 265 - Black Mirror Black Heart
in a reversal of standard RP procedure, an impassioned Yair goes in two-footed on the new season of Black Mirror while a largely indifferent Jack is just happy to be there.
07.19.2023
Episode 264 - The Rest Is Banter
Following a misguided attempt to crack the American market, Jack and Geraint desperately try and cling onto their remaining UK fans with a tight hour of Blairite-bashing and Starmer-slagging.
07.14.2023
WaterGape (GAPECAST #10) - Linear Edit
The original tenth GAPECAST from 2020, newly reedited and de-Memento-fied so the scenes take place in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER and the narrative MAKES SENSE! In GAPECAST #10, we rewind to December 2019, in the aftermath of the corrupt rigged election that replaced...
07.13.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP263 Extra
Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and hear the full hour of material: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86048005 a bonus episode of three parts! - firstly, you have an extended cut of our Barbie/toy movie discussion that was excerpted in the main episode, available here. - then you have the...
07.13.2023
Episode 263 "Cold Open" - The Gapes Report on class in 21st century Britain
just the sketch stuff from the start of the latest ep
07.12.2023
Episode 263 - Yair Rice 2024 Presidential Campaign Launch
after our signals are hijacked by Ilford South sonic terrorists for a few minutes, the boys get down to business as Jack surprises Yair by announcing a plan for RP to break the American market once and for all on...
07.06.2023
Episode 262 - Metal Brothers (ft. Sinan Kose)
Jack and a complicit Geraint bully special guest/metal brother Sinan Kose into admitting Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica is a masterpiece in an in-depth conversation containing so much truth and facts that we've had it shelved since January 2nd Check...
07.02.2023
PATREON PREVIEW: RP260-1 Extra (ft. Juliet Jacques & FFF)
the RP "Back On Top" campaign continues with the spectacular return of our Patreon, today featuring two brand new 30-45 minute collections of unused material from our last two recording sections. in this preview, you can hear special guest Juliet Jacques...

What's Reel Politik Podcast about?

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Reel Politik Podcast episodes:

Jack calls into Top Rope Deep Dive's Stone Cold Steve Austin episode

Episode 287 - Refuting John Galzer

Top Rope Deep Dive: Chris Jericho (ft. Jack Frayne-Reid)

Episode 286 - Rockin' and A-Rollin' At Mar-a-Lago

Episode 285 - Get Hi

GAPEFEST - A Weekend of Music & Milk (Director's Cut)

Episode 284 - Harbu Darbu (ft. Lilah @palebloodstasi)

Episode 283 - The Dauphin of Podcasting

RP282 Extra - Cobenology

UNLOCKED: Episode 169 - Jewison & DeVito's Guide To Neoliberalism (Part 2: 1979-2003)

Episode 282 - Tunnel of G-d

Yair on burning his Israeli passport

Episode 281 - What's the Deal (ft. FFF)

New Year's Eve (Tom Waits cover)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP280 Extra

Episode 280 - The Obituary Section

PATREON PREVIEW: RP279 Extra (ft. @leechwaifu)

UNLOCKED: Jim Davidson's Right-Wing Streaming Service (RP273 Extra)

Episode 279 - Octopus Energy (ft. @leechwaifu)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP278 Extra (ft. @phased_bemused)

Episode 278 - Openly Welsh (ft. @phased_bemused)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP275-6 Extra

Episode 277 - Armistice Weekend Special

Episode 276 - Concrete Facts

PATREON PREVIEW: RP274 Extra

Episode 275 - Illegal Attacks

Episode 274 - Exhuming McCarthy

PATREON PREVIEW: RP273 Extra

Episode 273 - The Modern Game

PATREON PREVIEW: RP271-2 Extra

Episode 272 - My Dogz Iz My Gunz

Episode 271 - Shoe Factory

PATREON PREVIEW: RP270 Extra (ft. @phased_bemused)

Episode 270 - Cymric Nonsense (ft. @phased_bemused)

Episode 269 - bröther may i have some gäpes (ft. Sinan Kose)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP269 Extra (ft. Sinan Kose)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP267-8 Extra

Episode 268 - Louis and the Freaks

Episode 267 - Reading Pod Save America Episode Titles (ft. FFF)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP266 Extra (ft. Jude Wanga)

Episode 266 - Tell 'Em Bruce Starmer Out (ft. Jude Wanga)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP264-5 Extra

Episode 265 - Black Mirror Black Heart

Episode 264 - The Rest Is Banter

WaterGape (GAPECAST #10) - Linear Edit

PATREON PREVIEW: RP263 Extra

Episode 263 "Cold Open" - The Gapes Report on class in 21st century Britain

Episode 263 - Yair Rice 2024 Presidential Campaign Launch

Episode 262 - Metal Brothers (ft. Sinan Kose)

PATREON PREVIEW: RP260-1 Extra (ft. Juliet Jacques & FFF)

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