Hermeneurotics

Finally Some Good (Oscars) Food

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:00:02 GMT

The preeminent film critics of their times (us) discuss the 2026 Best Picture slate for the Oscars. It is abrasive, harsh, and surprisingly positive, for the most part. Come on down and get the fresh, correct, takes!

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No War But Class War

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:31:19 GMT

TASTEFAKERS! Jesse delivers an audio essay which is meant to glorify one of the greatest games of all time...Final Fantasy Tactics. Before you go play this weird chess-like artifact with character art where nobody has noses for some reason, take a listen to this and see if it piques your interest. Whoreson dog!

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Pigs on Ice

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:50:20 GMT

This episode was recorded literally the day before ICE murdered another person. We talk through a heavy topic, hate on the powers that be, and manage to get to the technofascists while we're at it.

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Bitchin' About A List

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:26:01 GMT

A holiday bitchfest for everyone! The boys didn't really care for Quentin Tarantino's list of top twenty movies of the twentieth century and decided to whine about it, and also use it as a way to discuss Tarantino's work in general, which we have a complicated relationship with. Happy Holidays-ish!

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Signs of the End

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:43:02 GMT

The boys, feeling unmoored from reality, complain about things that bother them. AI, dating, dating AIs, other stuff. This is a rant episode, lock in.

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Another Pynchon Film Has Hit the Culture

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:27:41 GMT

It's time to dive into the film critics are calling the best film of the year: an adaptation of a Pynchon novel about having weird sex with your enemy and also everybody having a goofy ass name. So, an accurate adaptation in spirit, if not the rest. We touch on the revolutionary politics of the film, the racial/material implications of the politics, and whether this is, in fact, the best film of the year. Lock in.

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Aliens and Inhumans

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:08:42 GMT

We wade into the heart of the latest controversy by discussing our thoughts on the Charlie Kirk situation. Just so it's not all serious, we also delve into the stuff we like about the Alien franchise. Dissonance is good for the soul.

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Evening Redness in the West; Also Covid

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:27:18 GMT

The fellas all saw Ari Aster's latest anxiety-inducing bout of weirdness and decided to talk about it! Eddington's politics, its themes, and some of its hilarity are all discussed.

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A History of Violence

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:35:42 GMT

It's time to finally get political again as the boys react to the recent Jeffrey Epstein news by going off on current events, violence in politics, and the ongoing genocide.

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History and Terror plus Hip-Hop

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:38:42 GMT

Tim and Jesse sit down for a discussion about rap music, beginning with some historical context (okay a lot of historical context) before settling into a discussion about rap virtuoso billy woods' newest horror album, Golliwog.

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A Mann For All Seasons

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 02:13:40 GMT

The boys go full dadcore and engage with the work of director Michael Mann! Mostly Heat. Also, Collateral, and some other stuff. Look here for positive reinforcement that your thoroughly middle aged man tastes are in fact highly aesthetic and artful. They are!

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The Beauty and Terror of Nature, Human and Otherwise

Thu, 08 May 2025 06:18:31 GMT

The boys are back with another director-specific episode, this time dedicated to the work of filmmaker Werner Herzog. We primarily discuss Grizzly Man, Aguirre, and Encounters at the End of the World. We also forgot to talk about Bad Lieutenant, but seriosuly, go watch that, too.

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Only Ideas Matter

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:31:40 GMT

TASTEFAKERS! Jesse gets on for a solo ep where he extols the virtues of a comic book: Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory. Get bombarded with a technicolor explosion of weird ideas, bombastic superheroes, and a cynical man's warmest feelings for the art we find in the debris of pop culture.

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Living Inside the Dream

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:48:04 GMT

The boys stop talking about depressing sh*t for an episode to sing the praises of a true afficionado of the weird: David Lynch. We cover themes of his work, defend him from Roger Ebert, discuss what we think his top three works are, and somehow find time to talk crap about politican Cory Booker for reasons only important to us.

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Doomsaying

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:34:10 GMT

We finally go fully political and rant about the collapse of Western Civilization, in all its attendant symptoms. Immigration, Gaza, declining literacy, climate change, the boys talk about all the hits in this dire political moment. Perhaps we can find hope somewhere in here?

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Carceral Politics: It's Weird

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:27:47 GMT

TASTEFAKERS! Tim takes the mic to present a discussion on the prison, based on a presentation he gave at the University of Pennsylvania. This episode is more academic in tone, but consider it an opportunity to speak authoritatively on a subject you might know little about, impressing those easily impressed around you! In all seriousness, this is a serious subject, and we hope it can open some eyes to prison abolition and the function of the American prison system.

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Haterade is Part of a Balanced Diet

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:06:52 GMT

Prepare yourself for a tour de force in complaining, whining, and bitching. The boys discuss several of the nominees for Best Picture in this year's Academy Awards, perhaps flying too close to the sun by describing them as mostly fraudulent. If you can't stand the heat, perhaps you can settle your nerves with an anodyne music biopic. Do it, we dare you!

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I'm Your Huckleberry

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:41:44 GMT

TASTEFAKERS! The first episode of the pod within the pod, a series of solo episodes on random bits of ephemera one of the guys wanted to talk about. This time, Jesse takes on the novel True History of the Kelly Gang, and Westerns as a genre.

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Vampire's Kiss (No Nic Cage)

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:07:07 GMT

CONTENT WARNING: The discussion includes, among other things, the nature of the sexual violence present in Nosferatu/vampire films. If this makes you skittish, please be forewarned. If you want to continue onward, hopefully you will find our ramblings interesting, or perhaps just a way to kill time on your ride in to work.

Theme Music "The Street Market" by Danger Lion X

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A Lack of Substance

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:59:34 GMT

On the inaugural episode of Hermeneurotics, the boys discuss themes and ideas in Coralie Fargeat's the Substance. We did not select this film in order to watch Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore in spandex. No sirree.

Theme Music "The Street Market" by Danger Lion X

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