In the final part of a trilogy of episodes featuring regular guest Farages Fucked Face, Jack, Geraint and FFF review Michael Cimino's 1985 crime drama YEAR OF THE DRAGON, a film about how the Chinese invented the concept of the mafia a thousand years ago and have been perfecting it ever since, starring Mickey Rourke as the aptly named Captain Stanley WHITE - or, alternately, Agent Jack Decker - on a one-man crusade against the Chinese peril.

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Whilst our potted run through Mickey Rourke's "imperial phase" appeared in the main Year of the Dragon episode, I thought it would be a tighter episode if these discussions of Rourke's more variable-in-quality later work, as well as Michael Cimino's tragically brief filmography, came out as their own thing. This bonus episode also features another classic RP Skype screen-share moment as FFF shows Geraint and I a clip from a movie where Matthew Perry teaches some inner-city kids about America's early presidents through the medium of rap music (I, in turn, recommend Bulworth to him, following my earlier recommendation of Cimino's Clint Eastwood-starring directorial debut Thunderbolt & Lightfoot). - JFR

In our first newly recorded episode of 2025, the second in a trilogy of episodes with regular guest Farages Fucked Face, Jack shares his screen and the fellas watch the Labour Party's creepy AI-generated propaganda video featuring various anthropomorphic animals representing the different aspects of Labour's policy agenda, and read the lyrics of the song it sparked controversy by featuring: Brazilian musician DJ Holanda's sexually explicit Montagem Coral.

the stuff from the recording for episode 320 that was too hot for radio but too good to stay in the RP vaults

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In a previously unreleased but newly edited recording from mid-2021, Jack forces Geraint, Yair and FFF to watch the three-hour documentary HISTORY OF THE EAGLES, one of the funniest films ever made. Whether you love the top California soft-rockers or despise them, we urge you to listen to this episode and revel in the stupidity and self-importance of its subjects.

PRODUCED BY JACK & YAIR

PS. new episode on the political issues of the day currently in post-production

sorry for the audio quality on this...and i thought i was supposed to be the one who was bad with tech! new episodes coming soon. - JFR

Reel Politik/Eyup Lovely on whether John McDonnell will get the whip back, why Margaret Hodge should be in prison, and Eyup's history of amusing prank calls.

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Reel Politik creator and showrunner Jack Frayne-Reid recounts his highlights of the year 2024 in a pre-recorded segment for the Celtic Ligers podcast's new year stream.

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Happy new year from the Reel Politik podcast and all RP Corp affiliates and subsidiaries.

In this bit of stream audio from a couple of days ago, RP's Jack Frayne-Reid and Top Rope Deep Dive co-hosts Farages Fucked Face and @MarkedAsRed discuss, in no particular order: the Jekyll/Hyde dynamic of Elon and Adrian Dittmann, the music of Steven Seagal, the anti-Chinese cinematic genius of Michael Cimino's Year Of The Dragon, our attempts to game the YouTube algorithm by slagging off Thom Yorke, fatal wanking accidents, and why Joker 2 is better than "The Batman".

We also break the news of Jimmy Carter's death, before any other media outlet did so.

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Returning champ Eyup Lovely (@eyuplovely) joins Jack and Geraint for a festive look at all the MASSIVE PIECES OF SHIT Keir Starmer has put into the House of Lords, along with the appointment of Peter Mandelson as British ambassador to the United States. PLUS: Ilford South investigative journalist Jimothy Baker (@JimothyBaker) runs down The Year In Ilford.