The SWAMP

By Dara Valcour and Emily Kievra

SWAMP: Some Whack Ass Movie Podcasting. The brilliant, dazzling, and entirely unqualified Emily and Dara will talk your ear off each week about a different movie. Movies they love, movies they hate, a... more

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August 14, 2025 Addams Family Values
Sorry I can't hang out this weekend, I'm too busy thinking about Joan Cusack as Debbie Jelinsky in the 1993 film Addams Family Values...
Shouts out to Lesbos, Boston's Lesbian Newsletter Instagram
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1h 14min
August 07, 2025 Moonrise Kingdom
Packing our camping gear and hiking out to Moonrise Kingdom this week to kick off our August 'Camp' theme, thanks to listener Brooke for suggesting! Friend of the pod Matt Bacon joins us for chocolate or vanilla, and we get very off topic about Garbage Plates, Solar Eclipses, and The Boy Scouts of America.
Recommended documentary: Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (Netflix)

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1h 21min
July 31, 2025Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
SWAMP regular Erin, cousin of Dara, joins us to end Spielberg month with a Last Crusade.
Tumblr Post Mentioned
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I shouted out a chocolate chip cookie recipe in this episode that I now realize is behind a paywall (boo) so I am pasting it below:
Ingredients
Yield: 10 cookies
2cups/256 grams all-purpose flour
½teaspoon baking soda
¾teaspoon salt
½pound/227 grams unsalted butter (2 sticks), room temperature
1½cups/302 grams granulated sugar
¼cup/55 grams packed light or dark brown sugar
1egg
1½teaspoons pure vanilla extract
6ounces/170 grams bittersweet chocolate (about 60 percent cacao solids), chopped into coarse pieces, bits and shards
Preparation
Step 1
Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Line 2 baking sheets with aluminum foil, parchment paper or nonstick baking mats.
Step 2
In a small bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt.
Step 3
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter on medium until creamy. Add the granulated and brown sugars and beat on medium until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the egg, vanilla and 2 tablespoons water, and mix on low to combine. Add the flour mixture, and mix on low until combined. Add the chocolate and mix on low into the batter. (At this point, the dough can be refrigerated for several hours or overnight.)
Step 4
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Form the dough into 3½-ounce (100-gram) balls (a heaping ⅓ cup each). Place 4 balls an equal distance apart on a prepared pan, and transfer to the freezer for 15 minutes before baking. After you put the first baking sheet in the oven, put the second one in the freezer.
Step 5
Place the chilled baking sheet in the oven and bake 10 minutes, until the cookies are puffed slightly in the center. Lift the baking sheet and let it drop down against the oven rack, so the edges of the cookies set and the inside falls back down. (This will feel wrong, but trust me.) Bang it down, if necessary, to make the center fall.
Step 6
After the cookies puff up again, 2 to 3 minutes later, repeat lifting and dropping the pan, every 3 minutes, to create ridges around the edge of the cookie. Bake 16 to 18 minutes total, until the cookies have spread out, and the edges are golden brown, but the centers are much lighter and not fully cooked.
Step 7
Transfer the baking sheet to a wire rack; let cool before removing the cookies from the pan.
Step 8
Repeat with remaining cookies, using the first sheet pan for the third batch of cookies.
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1h 8min
July 17, 2025 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Beep boop we're A.I. bots now, here to learn how to dream and love through the power of podcasting and friendship. Exploring the odd Kubrick-Spielberg mashup 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence this week. No episode next week but stick around for some more Indiana Jones later this month!

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1h 10min
July 10, 2025 Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sibling of the pod Ryan joins us this week to discuss Spielberg's 1981 Indiana Jones classic.
Ryan's Cosplay Instagram Account
Video on Sudan Archeological Dig
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1h 21min
July 03, 2025 Jurassic Park
All aboard the S.S. Steven Spielberg Summer, because we're getting Jurassic this week. In addition to bird sequels and velociraptor fights, this week we discuss summer blockbusters, upcoming superhero films, and appropriate workplace emoji etiquette.

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1h 14min
June 27, 2025 Sinners
Friend of the pod Gavin joins us this week to discuss the 2025 film Sinners to complete our Pride Month Vampire Saga.
The Newspaper Clippings
Aspect Ratios with Sinners Director Ryan Coogler
Philbilly Moonshine Tiktok
Additional Sinners Content To Shout Out:
Sinners and the General State of Things
The Evolution of the Culture Vulture
Sinners and how Remmick performs allyship (an analysis)
Real Reason Why Remmick Was Hunted By The Choctaw Tribe
It Seems Most People Didn't Understand Sinners (or Cowboy Carter)

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1h 12min
June 19, 2025 The Hunger
Happy Pride to Bisexual Vampires Everywhere! Covering the 1983 arty erotic vampire thriller The Hunger this week.
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1h 13min
June 13, 2025 The Lost Boys
Late episode this week because we were too busy motorcycle racing with vampire Kiefer Sutherland...
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47min
June 05, 2025 Interview With The Vampire
Correction: David Geffen is not the richest living gay man, nor is he the only gay billionaire.
Swamp Thing TV Guy on Fire Stunt
Video Essay on Confederate Vampires by Princess Weekes
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