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Media Roots Radio: The White Hat Svengali of Video Comedy, Doug Lussenhop aka DJ Douggpound

abby — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 03:54:05 +0000

Abby and Robbie Martin invite Doug Lussenhop aka DJ Douggpound onto the podcast to discuss his origin story and the various forms of art/music/comedy he makes. Doug has been involved in writing, directing and editing many amazing projects over the years, like the Eric Andre Show, Tim & Eric Awesome Show and his own sketch comedy, Pound House. His ingenious comedic touch can be felt all the way back to the GI Joe PSA parody videos that went viral pre-YouTube in 2003.

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Media Roots Radio: Justice League Snyder Cut, Batfleck’s CIA Boost & Liz Warren Granny Goodness w/Leslie Lee III

abby — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 04:34:44 +0000

Robbie Martin is joined by Leslie Lee III from the Struggle Session podcast to pour out their love for the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League and to go over the tumultuous and strange history of how this mega budget super hero movie redo came to be. Robbie opens with the uncanny resemblance between Snyder’s depiction of DC comics character ‘Granny Goodness’ and Elizabeth Warren. As the episode progresses Leslie and Robbie get into the undeniable career boost Ben Affleck got following his film Argo which was essentially one giant CIA commercial in Oscar-bait form.

Intro/outro song: Bernard Herrmann – Suite of Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Media Roots Radio: Robbie’s Top Political Films Countdown

abby — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 03:50:28 +0000

Robbie goes through his Top 10 Political Satires, Top 10 Political Thrillers & Top 15 Political Scifi/Horror in this Part 1 of Robbie’s favorite political film list.

A bonus Media Roots Radio episode for Patrons only (now unlocked! originally released July 2019)

Warning: Spoilers throughout

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Media Roots Radio: Glass Film Review, the Unbreakable Trilogy & the Disneyfication of Culture w/ Leslie Lee III

abby — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 01:58:47 +0000

Robbie Martin starts the episode having a discussion with fellow podcaster Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session about the ‘Disneyfication’ of pop culture and why Disney absorbing the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars is actually a bad thing for the future of entertainment culture. They also discuss the current state of super hero films dominating Hollywood and movie critics being brainwashed into loving them, especially ones released by Disney.

In the second half of the episode Abby Martin joins Leslie and Robbie for a long form analysis of the Unbreakable trilogy by M. Night Shyamalan leading into an in-depth review of the last installment in the trilogy: ‘Glass’. Abby, Robbie and Leslie conclude with the question: did M. Night Shyamalan make the best super hero film (Unbreakable) and best super hero trilogy of all-time on a far lower budget than Marvel Studios?

WARNING: SPOILERS of Glass start at 1:34:00~ and SPOILERS of Split and Unbreakable start at 51:00~

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Abby Martin Presents 2018 Motherfucker Award for Fire to PG&E

abby — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:26:21 +0000

At the 2018 Motherfucker Awards, Abby Martin presented the Motherfucker award in the FIRE category to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. PG&E equipment was responsible for at least 17 of 21 major fires in Northern California in the past year. Many of these fires were due to lack of powerline maintenance.