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Auteur Theory

Dec 17, 2019

This week, Nick and Chris are joined by Jeff Gordon of Zia Records to take a look at Ron Howard's re-teaming with Michael Keaton for the 1986 comedy Gung-Ho. A slapstick-satire of the culture clash between working-class heartland Americans and the emerging Japanese corporate culture - this one was a staple of VHS video...


Nov 25, 2019

So in our exploration of the film work of director Ron Howard, why are we doing an episode on this forgotten 1985 animated Disney opus? We don't really know either. But why not, here it is.

Nick and Chris are joined once again by podcaster Heidi Schilling (Campfire Curmudgeon, A Schilling for Your Thoughts) to...


Nov 20, 2019

Alright, so this was mostly a conversation that happened off-air, but I think we just need to get out in front of it. Our co-host, Nicholas Edward Jones, has a deep hatred for chartered boats. I don't know what happened to him in his past to ingrain this in him; but he especially hates them when the captain on board is...


Nov 8, 2019

Mermaids. Now that the Discovery Channel has shown us incontrovertible evidence that they exist, our movie this week is more relevant than ever. It's Ron Howard's 1984 fantasy romantic comedy Splash. It's Tom Hanks. It's Daryl Hannah. And, hey! John Candy is there too!


Will these land/sea-crossed lovers finally bridge...


Oct 22, 2019

When you're in the mood for a fun, breezy comedy, where else would you look than the crime and corruption of the mean, gritty streets of late-70s/early-80s New York? Not sounding great? But what if you had Henry Winkler, Micheal Keaton, and Shelly Long as your guides? That's more or less what happens in Ron Howard's...