The Obsession Digression

The Obsession Digression

By Sam Bednarchik and Katie WalkeComedy
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The Obsession Digression episodes

  • Episode 22: "Elephant Balls," or Weird Science
    ...in which Katie and Sam cannot. A sad, weird week got even worse when we watched this movie. Katie and Sam are united in their shared hatred of Weird Science. They discuss the specter of Mad Max 2, how computers work in movies, and how to connect this movie to the techno-dystopiana that's come earlier in the season.
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    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode 21 - "Tragic Saxophone," or Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
    ...in which two podcasters enter and all narrative logic leaves. Katie and Sam discuss their weeks — one went baby crazy, the other battled a stomach bug from hell (guess who was who!) — and share what they loved and hated about this movie, the most cult-classicy of the Mad Max movies.
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    1 hr 18 min
  • Episode 20 - "Quack, Quack, Quack;" or Repo Man
    ...in which Sam and Katie stand on opposite ends of the Emilio Estevez spectrum: one is an adoring fan, the other wants to punch him. Katie performs multiple Forrest Gump impressions and Sam gets just about every character name wrong. Neither ends this episode with a firm understanding of this movie's plot.
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    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 19 - "Water Bed Entrepreneurs," or Terminator
    ...in which Katie and Sam encounter the king of the world's first film. Listen as Sam and Katie puzzle their way through Terminator's character arcs; Katie praises the small performances that populate the film's background; and Sam follows up last week's invention talk with a waterbed-based invention of his own.
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    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 18 - "Arcade Pit Stains," or Tron
    ...in which Katie shares her latest invention ideas (patent pending!) and Sam delights in this week's roundabout Billy Zane connection. Listeners, we're talking about Tron. Sam discusses the missing personal journey, Katie shows off her stellar robot impression, and both puzzle over the finer points of this strange, strange film.
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    1 hr 17 min
  • Episode 17 - “Sad Gaps," or Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
    ...in which Sam and Katie head down under to watch one of future terrible person Mel Gibson's earliest film roles. That's right. We're talking Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. (Spoiler: We liked it so much we're going to do Beyond the Thunderdome later this season.) Sam discusses his love of both polygamy and catfishing while Katie shares her discovery of the best cup of coffee in the contiguous US.
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    1 hr 15 min
  • Episode 16 - "Jogging Right," or Escape from New York
    ...in which we begin our journey into 80's tech dystopian sci-fi! Sam and Katie discuss Kurt Russell's manliness, whether Snake is "making America great again," and generally try to puzzle out the logic of this alternate New York.
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    1 hr 38 min
  • Episode 15 - "Hooking Our Lion-Faced Rugs," or Forever
    ...in which we save the most scandalous for last. Guys, things escalate...quickly. Also, Katie holds a yard sale and battles a neighbor over her trampoline while Sam tries to make sense of his emotional journey through this novel. (It was good!)
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    1 hr 27 min
  • Episode 14 - "Egging Some Mailboxes," or Blubber
    ...in which the OD takes on Blume's novel of bullying, Blubber. And guys, it's rough. Sam and Katie discuss the the good and bad in Blume's bullying PSA, we learn a bit more about young Katie's class-based bullying tactics, and Sam shoehorns a Mrs. Doubtfire scenario into the novel.
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    1 hr 23 min
  • Episode 13 - "Clutching our Lucky Chicken's Foot," or Deenie
    ...in which we tackle Deenie, Blume's 1973 novel on...scoliosis? (and masturbation?) Anyway, listen to Sam and Katie yearn for the halcyon heyday of Chris Cooper, Bam Margera, and Geraldo Rivera. Sam ponders his future and Katie tops last week's crotch-watching with another imaginative pastime.
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    1 hr 18 min

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Join Sam and Katie as they deep dive into all kinds of cultural icons. Filmmakers, authors, musicians, artists, maybe even a wholly unproductive celebrity or two (who knows!), doesn't matter so long…