The H&H Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me to talk about the film Civil War. We both have already posted (spoiler-filled) reviews. I really didn’t like it, while he gives the movie a kind of lukewarm endorsement. The greatest weakness is clearly its lack of explanation of how the US got to the point where Americans were killin

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comThe Sydney Sweeney saga continues. Rob joins me on the podcast to talk about her new film Immaculate, which I reviewed on X here. The conversation begins by Rob informing me that he thinks Sydney Sweeney is mid, and this leads to a heated debate about her appeal, which involves ranking various actre

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me to talk about The Curse, Season 1.Warning: spoilers in the show notes and also in the discussion. I highly recommend watching first, because it’s very good. The first nine episodes were some of the most compelling TV I’ve ever seen. I tend not to like the premise of white liberals b

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comIn previous discussions on rewatching Breaking Bad, I’ve often talked about how our minds play tricks on us. Going over the final two seasons, I was shocked by how much I had whitewashed Walter White’s character. I remember him being a somewhat complex figure near the end, when in reality he was

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me on the podcast to talk about what it takes to become a writer, “public intellectual,” or however one wants to describe what we do. This conversation can serve as a guide for those who might try to follow a similar path. But even if you’re not going to be writing for a living, I th

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.comRob joins me to talk about our experiences growing up poor, or poorish, with a focus on what race relations were like. For some context, I’m 38 and spent my childhood in one of the less nice suburbs of Chicago, while he’s 34 and was raised in rural California. Both of us mostly hung out around p

Chris joins me to go over Breaking Bad, Season 3, and the first few episodes of Season 4. I had gotten to Episode 4 of Season 4, while he had only gotten to Episode 2 of that season, so there was some confusion on this point, for which we apologize. You can listen here or on your podcast app, or watch the video below. There are spoilers in the episode and the rest of these notes. O

Rob joins me to talk about the last season of The Leftovers. For previous discussions, see here and here.We’ve changed the name of our show to The H&H Podcast. I had come to dislike the previous “dissident” kind of theme, which doesn’t really reflect the way I see the world anymore, nor is it much related to what the show actually is. We have basically been over most of the

Rob joins me for a discussion of The Leftovers, up to the end of Season 3, Episode 3. If you’re following along, there will be spoilers based on how far we have gone, as there will be in the rest of these show notes. See here for Season 1. We both think Season 2 was quite compelling, but the show has really declined as time has gone on. There’s a tension in that this is clearly

Rob Henderson joins me to discuss Season 1 of The Leftovers, an HBO series that ran for three seasons between 2014-2017. Our conversation revolves around two main themes. First, whether this is a Christian show, or maybe as Christian a show as you can expect from HBO. We discuss subtle pro-life propaganda, and how it portrays family life. Second, we connect the plot of The Leftover