Podcast for the New American Century

Feb 07 2025 79 ep. 87 mins 126

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Hosts Ben and Erik discuss geopolitics, American Empire, and the occasional film. Not your parents' PNAC.

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Grim Tones - Serenity (2019)

Feb 07 2025 106 mins

or "World on a Wire for stupid people". This is Grim Tones because Ben and Tim needed to do an emergency mini episode about "Beyond: Citadel" aka COOM (2025). Erik is back in the country and we will be back for real this time very soon <3 On the next Watching the End of History: Ghost in The Shell (1995) b/w Ghost in the Shell (2017).

70 - WTEH XXV: Assassin's Creed (2016)

Jan 25 2025 63 mins

Michael Fassbender, the link between heredity and crime.

69 - WTEH XXIV: The Devil's Rejects (2005)

Nov 28 2024 77 mins

Happy ThanKKK$giving you hogs <3. Erik is finally back and the serious stuff will be returning soon. In the meantime, here is Ben and Tim sitting down and talking out another film made by an idiosyncratic weirdo who created something incredible that speaks to our hellish current moment and were hated for telling the truth. Next on Watching the End of History: Tim and Ben return

68 - WTEH XXIII: Challengers (2024)/Infinite Jest (1996)/Tennis as a Sport

Oct 16 2024 78 mins

Erik is still gone so the horrors of the past and present will be waiting a little longer! In the meantime, Ben and Tim are lucky enough to be joined by both Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (And Introducing, Infinite Cast). We tap into their shared expertise of both music and DFW's novel for a freewheeling chat about Luca Guadagnino's tennis love triangle drama Challengers, the total

67 - WTEH XXII: The Counselor (2013)

Oct 03 2024 125 mins

Join Tim and Ben during a happier time (before Israel killed Nasrallah) for the conclusion of Ridley Scott Summer. You know the drill, everyone thinks this movie sucks ass but actually we think it's good.

66 - Another 9/11

Sep 11 2024 73 mins

Erik, Ben and Tim are all together to celebrate another 9/11 along with the less crazy but still wild three year anniversary of the podcast. Everyone made the mistake of listening to Ben and we wound up watching and talking 2006’s bewildering Death of a President. We wade through an insanely twisty 96 minutes that left all us scratching our heads trying to figure out what the hel

65 - Jawbreaker

Sep 10 2024 74 mins

Welcome to the week of 9/11, and the third anniversary of PNAC pod! As a special treat this week, we're releasing a bit of a prototype episode in which Erik does a solo scene talking about Gary Berntsen's 2005 book, Jawbreaker. This is the first in a rolling series of more book report episodes to come, hopefully each successive entry more streamlined than the last. Check back next

64 - Boiling The Frog ft. Séamus Malekafzali

Sep 02 2024 82 mins

Ben and Erik are joined all the way from Beiruit by independent journalist Séamus Malekafzali (@seamus_malek) to get a firsthand report of a week where Israel only continues to ramp up regional aggression and murder civilians (and journalists, and humanitarian aid workers). Together, we talk about the twin assassinations by Israel that sparked a response from Hezbollah while Iran

63 - Dishing, Dashing

Aug 30 2024 45 mins

Classico PNAC, the boys get together to spin a yarn about a very cool Saudi businessman with 9/11 ties and some very cool kids and grandkids. This story has everything from interior design to combat sports to Israel and KSA normalizing relations over their love of really bad electronic music. Remember to follow us on Triller! Dan Christensen article on Florida Bulldog: https://www.

62 - WTEH XXI: Prometheus (2012)

Aug 22 2024 128 mins

We're not exactly sure how this happened, but it seems like most of twitter decided to watch Prometheus at the same time Ben and Tim decided to do an episode about it while Erik was away.