DESTROY ALL CULTURE

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An hour-long chat about science fiction television and movies.

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DAC Episode 374 - The Silent Partner (1978)

a live dog pretending to be a canadian. Quick: who’s the least Canadian man ever to walk this Earth? Who resolutely refuses to embody a single particle of Canadian-ness? If you answered with Elliott Gould, you’d be right. So who better to portray a mild-mannered Torontonian bank teller who runs afoul

DAC Episode 373 - The Warriors (1979)

once a live dog, always a live dog The Warriors! The million-meme spawning, reality-adjacent adaptation of a 2,400 year old Greek poem, transformed into a carnivalesque vision of a New York City run by elaborately themed gangs straight out of a Lucy Sante book. Best known these days for David Patrick Kell

DAC Episode 372 - Risky Business (1983)

some dead lions think they’re live dogs. Capitalism! Dream states! The non-narrative oneiric space of fulfillment that may be a train, or it may be the celluloid strip of film itself! Oh yeah, and Tom Cruise is there. Join Adam and Aidan as they break down Paul Brickman’s Risky Business. Listen below

DAC Episode 371: Mr. Mom (1983)

a live dog discovering that he doesn’t want to be a dead lion. The year 1983 had its share of radical concepts, but perhaps none pushed the envelope quite like Mr. Mom, which dared to ask: what if a man… took care of his children? The answer, it turns out, is chaos and wackiness. Can a harried Jack Bu

DAC Episode 370 - Young Guns (1988)

a buncha dead lions. There’s something I need to clear up before I get to the end of this sentence: Young Guns, the movie, should be called Young People Who Use Guns. I thumbed this bad boy into my VCR, expecting a detailed treatise on the age of every gun shown in the movie (at the very least, a consid

DAC 369 - Repo Man (1984)

two guys destined for a ride to the stars, or maybe just mars. (in which Adam and Aidan spend some time talking about the prequel to Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday) (diversions include embarrassing high school anecdotes, soundtrack enthusiasms, and the terror of a man with a disintegrating mind driving endle

DAC Episode 368 - Upgrade (2018)

a dead lion and a live dog Upgrading. It’s all anyone’s talking about these days. Some people say you should upgrade, others say you should downgrade. The other day I heard someone make a convincing case that we should all degrade. How about that? People are wild these days, with all the talk about di

DAC Episode 367 - Night of the Comet (1984)

the burden of civilization rests on these live dogs. What would you do if you woke up to find that 99.9% of life on Earth had turned to red dust, and the only who people who survived were screw-ups, mad scientists and introverts? If you’re one of the Belmont sisters, the answer to that question is shoot

DAC Episode 366: Flatliners (1990)

schrodinger’s live dog/dead lion In recent years, the output of ‘90s-era Joel Schumacher has come in for reappraisal. His commitment to a maximalist aesthetic and gonzo production design now looks like auterist camp in comparison to the washed-out frames of digital filmmaking.Here at the offices of De

DAC Episode 365: Tremors (1990)

eight live dogs. “I’ll tell you. Nobody handles garbage better than we do.”Fun fact: if you listened to one episode of Destroy All Culture per day, then you started listening to this podcast exactly one year ago today! One entire year of our voices, piped into your ears on a daily basis. Frankly, we