In the twenty-third episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by raconteur Ben Thelen (of the Popcorn Optional Podcast) and composer Austin Howard (of Sonosa music) to discuss Billy Wilder's three pronged attack on sensationalist media, toxic ambition, and a complacent populace that is one of the purest and most scathing indictments on American culture in his most cynical work, Ace in the Hole.