The Reckless Musecast

In this episode, Ben and Joe talk about Salman Rushdie, the decades-long controversy around his 1988 novel, "The Satanic Verses," and his recent interview on "60 Minutes"; and Uri Berliner, his calling out of NPR at the Free Press, and NPR's response.

In this episode, Ben and Joe talk about the New Yorker article, "The Meltdown at a Middle School in a Liberal Town"; and the second installment in their Shed Selection series, the 1989 body horror classic, "Society."

In this episode, Ben and Joe talk to Michael David Cobb Bowen, a stoic writer, data engineer, and entrepreneur about the difference between "race" movies and "black" movies, colorblindness, the film American Fiction, and more.

In this episode, Ben and Joe chat about Andrew Doyle's book, "The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World."

In this episode, artist Judson Vereen returns for a discussion about his latest film project and the guerilla process behind it; the corrosive effects of too much social media; creating for yourself vs. creating for the world; and more.

In this episode, Ben and Joe chat about the Oscars; Ben goes on a Godzilla rant (and mistakes Ghidorah for Mechagodzilla); and kick off the first installment of Shed Selections with The Vast of Night.

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In this episode, Ben talks about his Oscar picks, while Joe just picks Oppenheimer for everything; then make fun of the climate version of the Bechdel Test, the Climate Reality Check.

In this episode, Ben and Joe talk about the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell and the insane reactions to it; Shane Gillis' (mostly) triumphant return to SNL; and the showdown between tech journalist Taylor Lorenz & Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok.

In this episode, Joe gives his review of the new documentary, "The Coddling of the American Mind"; and he and Ben talk about the hilariously racist Gemini AI image generator from Google.

In this episode, Ben and Joe pick their dream teams to fight back against the Crits, including a wide range of heterodox thinkers, creators, journalists, podcasters, public figures, and more.