The Old Fashioned Breakdown: A Mad Men Podcast

Jul 26 2022 31 ep. 84 mins 221
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It started off as a silly rewatch podcast for a classic TV show and became a deep dive into the fundamental building blocks of reality. Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/Old_Fashioned_Break Get in touch, we'd love to hear from you!

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Meditations in an Emergency S2 Ep13

Jul 26 2022 128 mins  
When we started on this episode the was a threat of world war, companies were threstening redundancies and ever since there's been an uproar about planned pregnancies. Good Job we have a fun tv show to let us forget real life, AMIRITE!?In this episode Fola tries not to pretend he understands any academic notions of semiotics and how they relate to not only this episode but Mad Men

The Mountain King S2 Ep12

Feb 22 2022 141 mins  
After a week that feels like months have passed Helen and Fola return to try and link The Mountain King to Carl Jung, who was born in the Swiss Alps They talk about: Anima/animus, Archetypes, Collective Unconscious, Complex, Individuation, Persona, Shadow, Self and Synchronicity, all explained here Info on Carl Jung Heres a video on his thoughts on religion: Carl Jung and Religion

Made in My Kitchen: What the Sopranos Ending Means... To Me

Sep 24 2021 20 mins  
As a special one off and in celebration of the release of The Sopranos Prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark (its awesome we don't care what people say), Fola has recorded a special episode of the pod... Enjoy! Here's the 10 Page (!) Essay he mentioned: And heres The In at the End Podcast Anyway Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either

The Jet Set S2 Ep11

Jun 30 2021 131 mins  
Fola and Helen are back after what feels like years to tackle the subject of masculine fantasy, and Fola creates a mini sci-fi trilogy within a Podcast.... you really have to listen to understand what that means. Fola also has a cold, so he sounds asthmatic. Helen Stayed awake till the end so, well done her! PS.. we'll try to do it quicker next episode... Although don't hold us to

The Inheritance S2 Ep10

Apr 03 2021 106 mins  
Fola and Helen are back after Fola has spent weeks try to find something, or more accurately, nothing (i.e. Lack) to say about this episode of Mad Men. The theme is growing up and what that involves, sounds simple enough right? But no Fola has to make it more complicated. Also Helen has a cat. This is Lacan's Table of Three Types of Lack that Fola was trying to explain Agent Lac

Six Month Leave S2 Ep9

Jan 26 2021 130 mins  
Fola in particular was able to use this episode to explore the them of depression and rebirth.. mainly rebirth after part of the audio for the podcast was destroyed. A large topic in this episode is ego drive https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/salesman/importance-of-empathy-and-ego-drive-to-become-a-good-salesman/13489 Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read you

A Night to Remember S2 Ep8

Jan 01 2021 108 mins  
In this episode Fola mansplains women to Helen. The guys try to improve their awareness about things in general and kinda show that they dont know that much. Fola gets anxious about the sound quality of the podcast, and Helen surprises Fola with her ability to just know stuff he spends hrs researching. And they both really enjoyed it. Oh and they explore the female orgasm About the

The Gold Violin S2 Ep7

Dec 13 2020 116 mins  
In this episode Helen and Fola try to figure out Dons Objet á from his Object of Desire. Hey everyone we're back after an unplanned hiatus, doing podcasts is hard! Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men. Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://w

Maidenform S2 Ep6

Nov 17 2020 88 mins  
In this episode Helen and Fola talk about pretty much everything, Fetish, Signifiers, Phallus, Ego, everything, except for Don Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men. Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown

The New Girl S2 Ep5 👁️ 👁️

Nov 03 2020 101 mins  
This one is a monster. Fola and Helen try to talk about Gaze and Subjectivity seriously, for way too long. Get in touch with us, rate and subscribe, we'd love to read your thoughts on either our show, or The show Mad Men. Email = [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/breakdown_old Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oldfashioned.breakdown.5 Reddit https://ww