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 the best thing about Thatcher was the Thatcherism.

Episode 280 - The Obituary Section

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Longtime friend of the show Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) joins Jack and Geraint for one of our trademark* sprawling deep dives, this time on one of the definitive comic works of the 21st century, Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's On Cinema At The Cinema, and its expansive extended universe.

Will Sloan is the host of the Michael & Us and Important Cinema Club podcasts and a certified film expert.

*we literally invented them. fuck you

Episode 288 - Back In The Hei Life Again (ft. Will Sloan)

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 Top Rope Deep Dive on our friend @MarkedAsRed's Twitch page: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred

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

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.

Episode 287 - Refuting John Galzer

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 and all-round Renaissance man Chris Jericho.

Check out the streams on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred

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

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.

Episode 280 - The Obituary Section

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