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Hi. This week my co-host Joshua Clover and I didn’t see X.

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Hello to our listener(s). This week we didn’t see Cyrano, though I did used to see Peter Dinklage on the PATH train (and feel also that I needed to.) If you are one of the fourteen or sixteen or maybe four people who listens to this podcast and you want to subscribe, because you’re so grateful it exists, go for it. Please tell your friends about this podcast which I have to say is pretty good.

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There’s a new movie on Amazon Prime called The Book Of Love about a British writer who goes to Mexico because he is boring and dead inside and he hopes he can exploit his translator/the entire country of Mexico to make him interesting/alive. Like other movies my co-host Joshua Clover and I have discussed on this podcast, this is a movie we simply will not be seeing, not because we hate movies but because we can’t see all the movies and we certainly can’t see this movie. Please support if you can so I can keep this all mostly free.

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I recently wrote an article for the New Yorker website called “The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions that Don’t Officially Exist” about touring Drax, a company in England that burns wood pellets in former coal plants made from trees harvested in the United States and Canada. This is a common practice in many European nations, who, in order to meet climate goals, take advantage of an accounting error in the Kyoto Protocol that allows them to categorize wood as a renewable resource and to create emissions at biomass plants without officially counting these emissions toward the nation’s total emissions output.

Sound ridiculous? It is. Sadly, 60 percent of Europe’s renewable energy comes from burning wood pellets, many of which are made from whole trees, and all of which actually create more emissions than coal.

I spoke with Justin Catanoso, a journalism professor at Wake Forest University as well as a writer for the website Mongabay. He is an expert on forest ecology and large-scale biomass and we had a lively discussion where we agreed on some things and disagreed on others but kept it classy unlike the people running Drax, who are ghouls, except the tour guides, who are just doing their job and were pretty cool.

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Welcome new and old listeners to Didn’t See It, Don’t Need To, a podcast where Joshus Clover and I review movies we have not seen. In some cases, this movie might actually be good, but we will still not be seeing it anyway.

This is a good podcast. It is not just two people being jerks. Or it is not only that.

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This is the year-end episode of the semi-new podcast Didn’t See It Don’t Need To, starring Sarah Miller and Joshua Clover, an integral part of therealsarahmiller.substack.com conglomerate.

I know listening to podcasts can be a lot. But this is a good podcast. It is EDITED. We don’t talk about ourselves - VERY MUCH. You know how there was so much DISCOURSE about West Side Story and then no one actually saw it? Well, we didn’t see it first. That is just one example of why this podcast is worth your time. By the way, we both love movies. Just not these movies, which we have never seen, and never will.

Sorry it’s out so late, I had a power outage. For days!

Here is a still from Dear Evan Hansen which we super did not see:

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Welcome to “Didn’t See It, Don’t Need To” a podcast where Joshua Clover and I don’t see movies. You might think this is cynical, we think the cynical thing is that these movies are made and discussed in the first place. Also, we do love/see movies, but not these movies! This podcast is free. Consider subscribing if you can to keep this stuff coming, it takes a lot of work to not see movies and to write things. Here is the archive of all DSDNT episodes and everything else I write for this newletter. The last film we didn’t see was Spencer, it’s in there.

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THIS PODCAST IS FREE and it’s really good — you should listen to it. It’s not long. It’s just Joshua Clover/The Real Sarah Miller

NOT seeing movies and discussing the UNSEEN MOVIE. This week we didn’t see SPENCER, not to be confused with SPENSER: FOR HIRE.

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This is a free podcast from The Real Sarah Miller, DIDN’T SEE IT, DON’T NEED TO in which Joshua Clover and I review movies without seeing them. This week I saw THE FRENCH DISPATCH because I kind of wanted to, Joshua did not, I quizzed him. Recently the roles were reversed with Dune.

So far I have been making my stuff free more or less and relying on those who have the means or interest signing up. If you are not broke, consider paying. If you can’t or do not feel moved to pay, I am hoping other people will step up so that I and my small group of helpers may continue to live and prosper insofar as those things exist these days. Thanks for listening/reading either way.

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This is a free podcast from The Real Sarah Miller in which Joshua Clover and I do not see movies and then discuss not having seen them. So many people are out there seeing movies that aren’t worth seeing and discussing them when they could just go swimming or pet an animal or check how many Twitter followers Zendaya’s dad has. We have disrupted this nonsense by NOT SEEING movies and discussing anyway, very briefly.

If you’re like, OH MY goD I love this podcast where these two friends don’t see movies, wow, it’s just 15 minutes long, what a great idea, perfectly executed:

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