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Ariel sits down with Richard Bates Jr. to discuss his new coven comedy, King Knight, newly premiered at Fantasia 2021. 

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Rawn James, the author of the new book The Truman Court: Law and the Limits of Loyalty, sits down with Rabia to discuss the Supreme Court's place in history and politics.

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Ariel talks with filmmakers Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer about their film, Violation, now available on Shudder. The conversation dives directly into hard topics, including rape revenge, trauma, and artistic responsibility. Listeners may be triggered by this conversation's topics, including sexual violence and trauma.

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This weekend at San Diego Comic Con, the best and the brightest in the comic book industry will gather together for the Eisner Awards, a celebration of some of the most influential books of the year. Among the nominees are creators Damian Duffy and John Jennings, who came by to talk about the importance of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, the joys of adapting it, and what the Parables mean in this moment.

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Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Utøya Island in Norway. Director Aslaug Holm speaks about her documentary, Generation Utøya, which follows the lives of four women who survived the attack.

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Rabia has a conversation with director Sato Amane about his latest film, which premiered at Rotterdam in June. And about the re-introduction of ‘Pink Eiga’ type films onto the Film Festival scene. 

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Rabia sits down with directors Neil Pagedar and Pooja Shetty, to discuss OK Computer, their newly premiered Hindi sci-fi comedy set 10 years into the future.

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Ariel and Rabia speak with Don Palathara about his new film that premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Everything is Cinema, an important narrative filmed as if it were a documentary of a difficult relationship in the midst of the pandemic.

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For our 100th episode, it's a celebration of the Ride the Omnibus family! Ariel and Rabia have a wide-ranging conversation about the many lives of Harley Quinn across comics, television and film, with special guests Billy and Danielle Dass, our amazing production team for the show!

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Ariel sits down with Kwame Webb from the Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Museum of Art to discuss the vitality of the BMA as a cultural institution, and what changes it has gone through in the pandemic. They discuss what the BMA means to the community that surrounds it, and the recent bequest from John Waters.

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