Reel Politik Podcast

In this clip from our new Patreon bonus episode, Will Sloan explains who David Zaslav is, and why Keir Starmer would see him as a kindred spirit. ALSO IN EP: John Cleese (duh). Bill Maher. Owen Jones leaving Labour. Starmer comparing Stormzy to "Velvet Underground" (no "the".) SUBSCRIBE @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK TO HEAR THE FULL BONUS EP & MANY MORE BESIDES

Longtime friend of the show Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) joins Jack and Geraint for one of our trademark* sprawling deep dives, this time on one of the definitive comic works of the 21st century, Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's On Cinema At The Cinema, and its expansive extended universe. Will Sloan is the host of the Michael & Us and Important Cinema Club podcasts and a certified film expert. *we literally invented them. fuck you

Following his hit appearance on RP co-host Geraint @wariotifo's hit wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive the other week, Jack realises he has the ability on Discord to call into, and sabotage, the other guys' streams at any time. Check out Top Rope Deep Dive on our friend @MarkedAsRed's Twitch page: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred

Jack and Yair talk about the unhinged response to Jonathan Glazer's acceptance speech for Best Director at the Oscars, Lex Friedman's five-hour Finkelstein-Destiny debate on Palestine, and the continued efforts by Starmer's Labour to big up Margaret Thatcher.

Special guest Jack joins Geraint, FFF and friend of the show @MarkedAsRed on their weekly wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive to discuss the life and career - and watch some great wrestling moments - of Canadian-American wrestler, podcaster, musician and all-round Renaissance man Chris Jericho. Check out the streams on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred

Jack and Geraint (@wariotifo) present extremely timely post-match analysis of the "funny" Rochdale by-election. But first, Geraint flies to Mar-a-Lago, Florida to interview somebody professing to be Beach Boys legend Mike Love.

Jack and Yair break down shocking new "smoking gun" evidence that has come to light suggesting Keir Starmer is agent of CIA. Then the rest of the episode is basically about another knight of the realm, Sir Paul McCartney, his various arrests for weed, and he and John Lennon's flirtations with radical politics in the early 1970s.

More than 200 innocent people lost their lives at Ilford South's infamous "GAPEFEST" music festival, which has been dogged by allegations of widespread financial corruption, endemic drug abuse, animal cruelty, human branding and vampirism. In this feature-length documentary - previously only available in three separate parts - Ilford South investigative journalist Jimothy Baker tells the full story of the doomed festival, talking to some of the key players, including festival organiser and former Ilford South MP Mike Gapes, his aide Mr Richard Miller (currently missing presumed dead), former Lib Dem leader/rock musician Tim Farron, and headliner Jimmy Buffett. Tune in, drop out, and rock out to this incredible document of a weekend its survivors will never forget.

Returning guest Lilah @palebloodstasi (formerly @leechwaifu) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint once again to talk Scottish issues, the chaotic Rochdale byelection, the beautiful mind of Eddie Marsan, and Chairman Gonzalo of the Shining Path, among many other subjects. We also return to the world of hip-hop and investigate the titular HARBU DARBU, the hit drill banger sweeping the Israeli charts that is obviously about wanting to murder famous western women, and the US rap game's responses to 9/11. IRANIAN HANGMEN!!!!

Lots to catch up on: Labour's continued support for collective punishment of Gaza, suspension of Kate Osamor, and efforts at outreach to online influencers. Journalist Paul Waugh's unsuccessful attempt to get selected by the party as a parliamentary candidate, and Laurence Fox's travails in the courts. Jack's turn-up music, and the secret life of bees. The latest video from Women4Wes. Then, in the second half, we listen to two songs by topical songsmiths the Marsh Family; one a Starmer-themed parody of Bowie's Starman, the other a grotesque Band Aid-style Christmas single about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Following their discussion of the Chabad tunnel controversy, Jack tells Yair all about the vast multitudes of virtually interchangeable Netflix original thriller series based on the work of author Harlan Coben.

NOTE: This episode was originally released in October 2020 on patreon.com/reelpolitik, but we've decided to release it for free in light of Norman Jewison's death. We'd already made the first in this two-parter available for free on this very feed here: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/unlocked-episode-168-jewison-the-mighty-fist-of-liberalism-pt-1. RIP Norman Jewison. ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Jack and Yair are back with the back half of Norman Jewison's filmography, picking up after F.I.S.T. (1978) with a quick breeze through his 1979-91 filmography, before getting deep into 1991's Other People's Money - a flawed but somewhat incisive portrait of a changing American capitalism starring an electric Danny DeVito as a Gordon Ghekko-type parasite - and Jewison's final film, 2003's The Statement, starring Michael Caine as an escaped Nazi war criminal. Plus - 1998's The Hurricane and the Bob Dylan song that inspired it.

Yair tells Jack about his decision to burn his Israeli passport, before the two seek to get to the bottom of the very funny Chabad tunnel scandal, and the organisation's extensive links to Bob Dylan and Yair's grandad.

Reel Politik podcast co-host and British-American-Israeli citizen Yair Rice ceremonially burns his Israeli passport in protest at the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Can't really add anything more to this that Yair doesn't cover in the vid, but the RP team salute his courageous gesture. FREE PALESTINE. View this clip in video form here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc474xUMpno&lc=UgzqjOhT-NNky2tt2Q94AaABAg

To kick off RP for 2024, we return by popular demand to the English-language, western-targeted comedy sketches of Eretz Nehederet, the "Israeli Saturday Night Live", as well as the YouTube content of their celebrity guest Michael Rapaport. After an absence from the airwaves of several months to learn and grow, friend of the show Farages Fucked Face (@soldierpaypig) returns to provide expertise on comedy of somewhat dubious quality, through an even poorer quality mic.

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Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full RP Extra @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/94462789. We review Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher. Yair was whisked away due to unavoidable parental responsibilities, so the last half hour is our 171st episode, edited down from a much longer running time to purely the Flanagan/Doctor Sleep/Stephen King/The Shining discussion, a worthy companion to our newer conversation.

A morbid episode this week, as Jack and Yair pour one out for the dearly departed trinity of Henry Kissinger, Shane MacGowan and Alistair Darling. PLUS cuts to the BBC's Newsnight, the resumption of violence in Gaza, & Starmer saying the best thing about Thatcher was the Thatcherism.

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full 53 extra minutes of Lilah here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94145707 In the rest of our conversation with Lilah @leechwaifu, we talk about our most problematic centrist associates, our most problematic associate in general FFF's Israel fundraiser stream, i have various tech issues, Lilah speculates as to whether Jon Lansman got got, then a detour into Lee Kern leads us to talk about Tintin for like half an hour, including a full run-through of the plot of OG Tintin adventure Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.

This 45 min segment was originally released as part of a longer RP Extra on patreon.com/reelpolitik. The original description is as follows: Geraint and Jack investigate politically incorrect British comedian Jim Davidson's new streaming service USTREME ("laugh like you used to") and the incredible comments of an elderly Geordie man called Kenny underneath virtually all their content.

Longtime friend of the show Lilah (@leechwaifu on Twitter) makes her Reel Politik debut to provide live commentary on a series of English-language comedy sketches from Israel's most renowned satire show, Eretz Nehederet, designed to put a positive spin on the Israeli bombardment of Gaza for western audiences. In addition, we check out a couple of other top Israeli cultural exports: a terrifying pro-genocide anthem sung by children, and an abusive voice message some IDF guy sent to Owen Jones, before looking at the brilliant satirical mind of Lee "Jam Econo" Kern.

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full 70 mins of new material @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp278-extra-ft-93410023 The order of proceedings in this RP Extra is as follows: - Dundee vs. Glasgow (extended), Welsh Hamas tunnels, Guardian collecting details of Palestine supporters, Benjamin Butterworth/Byron Burgers, centrists saying Soros is pulling the strings of Novara, John McDonnell calling for a "5 day humanitarian pause", Springsteen vs Dylan as post-covid touring acts, Uncle Tits, new Rolling Stones album, new Beatles song, Steffan's experience seeing Kanye West's Life of Pablo listening event at the cinema, Jay Electronica, Ice Cube & "ethnic realism", "Labour Against Antisemitism-era Lou Reed" + Jesse Jackson's failson, "Walts"/stealing valour, the Margaret Cutting from Liverpool, Nina Power court case, twlldun disgracing the Welsh, bellend centrist tory journos, Jack losing train of thought

Returning legend Steffan @phased_bemused AKA Shrieking Tinman joins Jack and Geraint to talk Welsh issues, Captain Tom, furries, Sleaford Mods, Rumble, boycotting Radiohead, and all the usual anti-Starmer/Israel shit. In the middle of all this, Jack reviews Martin Scorsese's powerful and pertinent new film Killers Of The Flower Moon.

A preview of our last two patreon.com/reelpolitik exclusives, featuring a Jack/Yair discussion of Bill Maher from a full hour of chat by the deadly duo, followed by one from our new Jack/Geraint bonus episode, in which we run through all the dumb Hollywood celebs to have signed the pro-Israel open letter doing the rounds over there. Once again, for every numbered episode that appears on our main feed, we are now releasing an "RP Extra" - each effectively an episode in its own right. patreon.com/reelpolitik got the goods.

In celebration of definitely-real phenomenon of "armistice weekend" and the glories of war, Jack and Geraint review Ian Brown's 2007 anti-Iraq War, anti-Israeli occupation, anti-child poverty protest album The World Is Yours, which contains brilliant Sinéad O'Connor-aided masterpiece 'Illegal Attacks', and some other songs. Jack then presents selected readings from Ice Cube's 2018 Trump diss 'Arrest the President'. This episode was originally planned to be our patreon.com/reelpolitik bonus for this week, before we realised we didn't have time to get a free one ready before the weekend. Don't worry, though, RP subs, you will still be getting new content in its place!

This episode was certified by the official Reel Politik factchecker as containing CONCRETE FACTS. As requested by one listener, Geraint and Jack run down the rogue's gallery of right-wing shitbags and Sebags among the signatories of British pro-Israel petition "the October Declaration". Read and, if you're a supporter of apartheid and/or genocide, sign the October Declaration over at https://britishfriendsofisrael.org. If you support human rights and good jokes, sign up to patreon.com/reelpolitik and get TWO supplementary episodes to this one.

the long-awaited episode 274 now finally gets its equally long-awaited RP Extra, this time pretty much one as lengthy as a standard episode. we talk about Israel and Palestine for another half an hour or so, and then get on our Britrock shit and go deep on Ian Brown (more on him on a future RP Extra), Muse and Beady Eye, among others. this clip contains stuff about Rachel Reeves and, separately, Ian Brown. Subscribe @ patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full episode @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp274-extra-91761064.

Jack and Yair talk about Israel and Palestine. Yair details his efforts to formally renounce his Israeli citizenship, and Jack fills him on on Keir Starmer's trip to the South Wales Islamic Centre. PLUS Piers Morgan, OctopusGate, funny propaganda & unfunny crimes.

Jack, Geraint and Yair discuss the Labour Party's 2023 conference and, more importantly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. NOTE: This episode was recorded last Tuesday, so already some of it has been rendered somewhat dated. But basically the Labour shit is in the first 45 mins and then it's all FREE PALESTINE!

Hear the full hour of material at https://www.patreon.com/posts/90652547 by subscribing to patreon.com/reelpolitik. Pretty substantive and more-focused-than-usual RP Extra here today, though, as Geraint and I spend the vast bulk of it investigating politically incorrect British comedian Jim Davidson's new streaming service USTREME ("laugh like you used to") and the incredible comments of an elderly Geordie man called Kenny underneath virtually all their content. To warm up, however, we look at all the times "rival" Apprentice hosts Donald Trump and Alan Sugar have engaged in online beef with one another. PUSH. Jack

Jack and Geraint convene to talk about the Rory Stewart scandal, wherein the centrist ex-Tory and podcaster was the subject of antisemitism allegations after he issued the mildest possible defence of Jeremy Corbyn on constitutional grounds, and what this tells us about how consensus is constructed in British politics. Once that's out of the way, we move onto Americans' love of shooting people with their guns, and some of the latest broken Starmer pledges. We also wildly but - in hindsight - quite accurately speculate on the then-forthcoming Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Russell Brand. NOTE: This is the third and final instalment of what can be loosely termed "The Dog Death Trilogy", with this episode literally being recorded on the night Jack's dog died. Hopefully forthcoming episodes will be less coloured by this tragic loss. As ever, get more @ patreon.com/reelpolitik

A preview of our last two Patreon episodes, featuring Jack, Yair and Geraint discussing Oasis and "going Welsh", and Jack and Yair talking about hit motion picture Sound of Freedom. These are just two of the myriad topics touched on across these two bonus episodes. The 44 mins of extra material from RP271 can be found here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp271-extra-89572350 - and the 66 mins of RP272 Extra here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp272-extra-89988847. We are doing one of these for every numbered episode now. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear them.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Remus the dog, a beloved pet of fourteen years, although it was recorded while he was still with us. Jack and Yair convene for a loose chat concerning new Labour MP Keir Mather and other millennial politicians, dangerous dogs and the work of Sticky Fingaz, Kanye's antisemitism era and subsequent going-to-ground, and - four years on - the moral panic surrounding the film Joker, and the character's prior portrayal by Jared Leto. PLUS: The Finnish PM's resignation to actually get shit done at the Tony Blair Institute For Global Change, and the American right's continued insistence that Obama is secretly gay. For an episode's worth of additional material for this and all other new episodes, sign up at patreon.com/reelpolitik.

Jack, Geraint and Yair run down the latest ultra-Blairite changes to Sir Keir Starmer's top team, read Simon Hattenstone's excellent Guardian profile of shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/if-you-want-cartwheels-im-not-your-person-rachel-reeves-on-charisma-u-turns-and-rescuing-the-economy), and discuss Ed Balls and Robert Peston's "surprisingly punk" new rock band Centrist Dad. For bonus material (out tomorrow) for this and all other new episodes, subscribe for a very modest fee at patreon.com/reelpolitik

Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik and hear the full 75 min bonus episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/88975048, plus one like it for every new episode we put out. INCLUDES: - Bob Dylan and reggae - Harold & Kumar + the Obama administration - weed (Stefan's experiences) - (more) Paul Mason - Welsh football - Gruff Rhys and Guardian masterclasses - Van Morrison vs. "them" - the non-Van Morrison anti-"globalist" right a cracking one imo. thanks again to our great mate Stefan for coming on the show, and viva Wales!

DISCLAIMER: RP listener @MarkedAsRed points out that this episode should've been called 'Cym Town'. We apologise for dropping the (cym-filled) ball on that one. Jack and Geraint are joined by official RP Welsh Correspondent Stefan AKA Shrieking Tinman AKA @phased_bemused to talk spooky Welsh politicians, the Pie/Doyle/Spiked comedy empire and wider network, so-called (by Geraint) "Starmer dogging rumours", before we do an in-depth reading of Anne McElvoy's recent Evening Standard article "Jeremy Corbyn is back and has much in common with Farage". For extensive bonus material, as with all our recent episodes, subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik for five YanKKKee dollars a month.

Exiled Twitter renegade Sinan Kose of the Peace at Home Podcast (@PeaceAtHomePod) joins Jack & Geraint (@wariotifo) for a mammoth episode revisiting the self-published/self-exculpatory oral history of 2019's hottest new centrist party Change UK The Independent Group. WARNING: Contains *many* Gapes/Leslie/Soubz impressions. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear an extra 75 mins of material from this session with Sinan - https://www.patreon.com/posts/88246779 - and much more at patreon.com/reelpolitik. Check out and also subscribe to Sinan's Twitch stream at https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader, and the Peace at Home Podcast at https://peaceathome.podbean.com.

rehashing our biggest scandal with Comrade Sinan. sign up & hear the full 75 mins of RP EXTRA here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp269-extra-ft-88246779

A preview of our last two Patreon episodes, featuring Jack, Yair and Geraint discussing America's #1 song 'Try That In A Small Town', and Jack and FFF bitching about who they hate on the left. The RP Extra drawn from the Louis Theroux episode fronted by our core trio can be found here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp268-extra-87945901 - while the near-hour of additional FFF material can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp267-extra-ft-87530093. Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear fuckin hundreds of these shits.

Jack, Yair and Geraint review Louis Theroux's three-part BBC documentary series, "Forbidden America", which aired in February 2022 and covers the US far-right, trap and soundcloud rap, and the porn industry. Inevitably, we end up comparing these recent films to our more "gonzo" favourites from the Theroux back catalogue.

In what can be construed as either another misguided attempt to break the American market, or an attempt to explain the peculiarities of American culture to our UK audience, Jack spends almost an hour reading the names of episodes of hit liberal podcast Pod Save America to an increasingly agitated FFF. NOTE: It took a lot of work to make FFF semi-intelligible on this one. Not only was his side of the conversation recorded in the worst quality in podcasting history, about the only thing clearly audible on his end was that he was drunk as shit. Reprehensible really. Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik to get more of this convo, as well as additional material from ALL our recent episodes.

Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full hour+ of additional material here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp266-extra-ft-87114740 AKA "British Blues Corner" My rationale for dividing up my 2-hour-and-change convo with our good friend Jude (@judeinlondon) was basically anything Bruce in the main episode, and anything non-Bruce in the Patreon one. It pretty much came to an hour and change either way. So if you don't like Bruce Springsteen, it's your lucky day. Unfortunately, if you don't like the Rolling Stones or Eric Clapton, you're shit out of luck, because there's a lot of both here. However, at a present-in-spirit-only Geraint's insistence I corralled Jude into going off about Starmer at the end, so those of you understandably consumed by hatred for the worst man alive can seek some solace in that. keep it real dawgz Jack

Friend of the show Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon) joins Jack to review the Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band show they saw at Hyde Park last month. Jack also talks a bit about his own grand return to live musical performance at his friend's wedding. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear an EXTRA HOUR of conversation with Jude, including lots more rock talk and - even more excitingly - the titular anti-Starmer material!

We are hoping to get a corresponding one of these little Extra episodes out for every main episode we release. Of our recent episodes, only the wrestling and Lulu ones have failed to yield one, in great part because those eps were so fucking long to begin with. Enclosed here are previews of RP264 Extra - a Jack/Geraint convo that can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp264-extra-86658495 - and RP265 Extra, a Jack/Yair one that can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp265-extra-86841827. Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik to get HUNDREDS of these things. Six subscriber exclusives already in July! Big bang for your buck!

in a reversal of standard RP procedure, an impassioned Yair goes in two-footed on the new season of Black Mirror while a largely indifferent Jack is just happy to be there.

Following a misguided attempt to crack the American market, Jack and Geraint desperately try and cling onto their remaining UK fans with a tight hour of Blairite-bashing and Starmer-slagging.

The original tenth GAPECAST from 2020, newly reedited and de-Memento-fied so the scenes take place in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER and the narrative MAKES SENSE! In GAPECAST #10, we rewind to December 2019, in the aftermath of the corrupt rigged election that replaced Gapes as Ilford South MP with Corbyn's Candidate, Sam Tarry. Written once again by seasoned Ilford hack Jimothy Baker (currently scribbling away in prison like Gramsci), this episode documents one of the biggest scandals to rock Ilford politics since that depicted in our previous GAPECAST.

Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and hear the full hour of material: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86048005 a bonus episode of three parts! - firstly, you have an extended cut of our Barbie/toy movie discussion that was excerpted in the main episode, available here. - then you have the bulk of the episode, consisting of entirely unreleased material. we return to the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, and later briefly provide inadequate analysis of the UK's new anti-BDS law, but mostly do a kind of unhinged deep dive into centrist outsider artist Jonathan Bergdahl. - finally, a sort of "blooper reel" of jokes considered "disruptive" to the main episode.

just the sketch stuff from the start of the latest ep

after our signals are hijacked by Ilford South sonic terrorists for a few minutes, the boys get down to business as Jack surprises Yair by announcing a plan for RP to break the American market once and for all on the back of a Yair Rice 2024 presidential run. PLUS social media bullshit! Corbyn is popular! three actual pre-written sketches!

Jack and a complicit Geraint bully special guest/metal brother Sinan Kose into admitting Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica is a masterpiece in an in-depth conversation containing so much truth and facts that we've had it shelved since January 2nd Check out Sinan's stuff @ https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader and https://twitter.com/TheSinanKose and subscribe to our newly reactivated RP Patreon @ patreon.com/reelpolitik

the RP "Back On Top" campaign continues with the spectacular return of our Patreon, today featuring two brand new 30-45 minute collections of unused material from our last two recording sections. in this preview, you can hear special guest Juliet Jacques talk about Michael Heseltine on RP261 Extra, and Geraint tell Jack and FFF about noted traitor Paul Mason's brief spell moonlighting as a games journalist with a Japanese focus subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the Juliet stuff (https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp261-extra-ft-85460282), the FFF stuff (https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp260-extra-ft-85460525) and a vast back catalogue of otherwise unreleased material

Frequent RP guest Juliet Jacques returns to the show to expand on her 2020 Red Pepper article 'How Corbyn unmasked comedy' (https://www.redpepper.org.uk/how-corbyn-unmasked-comedy/) in a discussion of the generation of British comedians and satirists who emerged in the 1990s from under the wing of two titans, Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci, following their mock news show On The Hour's successful transition from radio to television as The Day Today. We look at their many shows and films, the political milieu they came out of, their key collaborators, and ask when - or if - it all went wrong for these anti-establishment firebrands.

Jack Frayne-Reid joins longtime friend of the show Sinan Kose on his Twitch stream (https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader) to discuss recent news stories involving Roger Waters and Jamie Driscoll. Recorded 9th June 2023.

with FFF subbing for a holidaying Yair, the boys get into the current efforts by Starmer Labour and their fellow travellers to cancel a rich rock star like they did Corbyn, for touring an antifascist rock opera for 40 years. PLUS: Michael "White Mike" "Milk" Rapaport, the New Statesman's 2023 Left Power List, Bohemian Grove, and a litany of highly objectionable impressions (all by Jack)

Geraint and Jack, respectively expert and novice, take a step back from the frontline of politics and recruit dialectical wrestling podcaster @PuroPodcast (+ auxiliary host FFF) to explore the world of pro wrestling, with 3hrs on the 2004 Royal Rumble.

After spending Too Long In Exile, we are now BACK ON TOP. Following a brief film chat, Jack, Yair, Geraint and FFF dive straight into this political world with discussion of the latest lies of #SirSmearStarmer and his goon James O'Brien, Woke Elon's latest attempt to silence Jack for his right-wing views, the anti-democratic (Starmer was there) coronation, and - most importantly of all - Mike Gapes' readmission to the Labour Party. Finally, we spend about 45 straight minutes riffing on the historic Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens-Salman Rushdie beef.

Jack, Yair and Geraint are back from another period in the wilderness to spit some real hard left politics, both on the ongoing Starmer situation and in our new, wholly unique segment "America Corner". We also go in on the bizarre convergence of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group and the not-left-wing Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, and - in spite of the rockin' artwork and Van Morrison-inspired title - barely talk about classic rock at all. Look out for more exclusive episodes coming soon (in addition to our considerable back catalogue) to patreon.com/reelpolitik

Jack and Yair kick off an exciting series of RP2023 with a detailed dissection of the British TV dramas Life On Mars (2006-7) and its spinoff/sequel series Ashes To Ashes (2008-10), and their iconic "Clarkson but it's ok because he's not real" antihero Gene Hunt. We talk about how the shows contrast the rough and rowdy days of the '70s and '80s with the sort of radical leftist woke culture of the late Tony Blair era, and how they pointed the way towards David Cameron's straight-talking, honest 2010s. Along the way, we check in on the American and Russian remakes and assess what they got right and wrong (shocker, we come out more pro-Russia on this.)

GapeCast empresario FFF returns to the show to talk about a range of now-outdated news stories with Jack and Geraint, including: Sunak's Gary Glitter fandom, the death of Jerry Lee Lewis, the existence of Mike Gapes and "Ye" on Drink Champs.

Yair, Jack and Geraint pay tribute to classic improvisational TV comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, 1999-present) and its creator/star Larry David's knack for acute social observation.

In the first of what should be at least three new episodes this week, here's a low-key "choppin' it up" ep in which Jack and Yair talk Dune(s), Lou Reed's 2000 album Ecstasy, and books by Bob Dylan and Lester Bangs.

After getting the lowdown from Ilford South investigative journalist Jimothy Baker on the reaction in Ilford South to the death of the queen, Jack, Geraint, and special guest Farages Fucked Face were all queened out and wanted to talk about pretty much anything else than the topic at hand. Instead: the 1996 Prince's Trust benefit concert at Hyde Park, the evolution, or devolution, of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, Fat Cops uppercase and otherwise, and albums of recorded music by professional wrestlers. PLUS: a little bit on the bombshell Al Jazeera docuseries the Labour Files, which none of us had seen when we recorded this.

In our landmark 250th episode, Jack and Geraint are joined by Ilford investigative journalist Jimothy Baker (@JimothyBaker) to get the lowdown on the situation on the ground in Ilford South regarding the Queen's death.

Jack joins the end of a recent (ie. just before the Queen died) stream by friend of the show Sinan Kose to pour salt on assorted swindlers, thieves and scoundrels

Jack and Yair talk about the 21st century work of Bruce Springsteen - particularly his 2000 protest song American Skin (41 Shots) and subsequent run of albums from 2002's The Rising to 2012's Wrecking Ball - and what it can tell us about America's national journey since the dawn of the new millennium.

Geraint and Jack - whose segments appear on this release in that order - recently appeared on a Twitter space hosted by our friend @UncleTrash, along with the estimable @tonytrains, to talk about how centrists suck as usual.

Since we released all our stuff with SIR BANE QC as this week's free ep, we thought we'd dig into the RP Archives for its concurrent subscriber exclusive, with this unreleased episode recorded by Jack and Geraint around the time of the May local elections. The release was held up by some audio issues on Geraint's end, and then the fucking police covered up the crimes of Keirdelwald and rendered our whole conversation kind of dated. Still, the main points hold up - fuck Keir Starmer, all we want is revenge. Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the whole thing and many, many more exclusives besides.

The finest legal mind of his generation, the venerable Sir Bane QC @BaneNook, joins Jack and Geraint for an action-packed 2.5 hours to give the lowdown on the Forde Report & the latest crimes and/or misdemeanors (sic) of Keir Starmer. After a discussion of the hated Mister Kieth's (8x) run-in with the Parliamentary Standards Commission, the Forde discussion - drawing on all the legal expertise our boy Bane has to offer - begins in earnest at about 45 mins in. Song at start and close is Jack's official RP tie-in cover of the Everly Brothers' 1968 single MILK TRAIN.

the latest from Graveyard Goat Family, and the only milk-themed Everly Brothers song. thanks to Tim for the drums.

After some politics talk - the establishment cover-up of Starmer's crimes, the Tory leadership situation - and Yair enthusing about Chinese rap, Jack gets prayed up & finally reviews Marky Mark's insane new "faith based" drama Father Stu.

the full audio of Jack appearance on Friday's edition of friend of the show Sinan Kose's stream, which can be found @ https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader. over two and a half hours, Jack, Sinan, and a handful of other trusty comrades (TBC) break down the explosive findings of the latest document to illustrate the extraordinary lengths Labour's demonic right wing went to in their ultimately successful efforts to thwart socialism, democracy, and all that is good and decent.

Jack and Yair engage in some now quite outdated talk about the latest exploits of Fucking French Cunt Macron, then talk about how hip-hop is still the most anti-establishment genre of music, before Yair guides the listeners through some of the highlights of the China state affiliated media he has been exploring in considerable depth For another hour of new material go to patreon.com/reelpolitik, subscribe, and hear the rest of this conversation!

the boys join Sinan for an hour and half of political shittalking

Jack & Yair return from a lengthy sojourn to go equally at length on film, touching on auteurist false advertising, early 2010s liberal imperialist crowdpleasers such as torture advertorial Zero Dark Thirty, the comparatively inoffensive Argo, and their earlier antecedent, Steven Spielberg's Munich, all the grouching about liberal melts you'd expect as a consequence, plus Shakespeare adaptations, the new documentary about reviled criminal Sir Jimmy Starmer, and the Albuquerque meth scene extended universe. Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear another brand new film episode, this one focusing on king of family-friendly Christian entertainment MARKY MARK and his Boston ideology.

Got you! Know you saw on your feed that Reel Politik had a new track and thought it was an episode. It's actually a comeback for a different project that falls under the wider RP Corp Intl umbrella. Graveyard Goat Family are effectively a rebrand of the previous musical project of RP host Jack Frayne-Reid, Crazy Moose, with no set lineup but more of an emphasis on collaboration with other musicians. Do you know how to rock? That musician could be you... Anyway, we will be collecting some choice tracks recorded for the unreleased (except for subscribers to patreon.com/reelpolitik) third and, for now, final Crazy Moose album, THE AGE OF ASTRAY, along with a handful of new ones, into a new album of the same name, which will function as GGF's debut LP. The painting by RP co-host Yair Rice that adorns this track will be the album cover, and this will likely be the closing song. RP listeners should be heartened that it is sort of about the cruel death of left-wing politics in Britain. GRAVEYARD GOAT FAMILY (on this recording) ARE: Jack Frayne-Reid - Guitars, vocals, organ, shakers DM (anonymous) - Bass, drums Yair Rice - Artwork

Happy 4/20 to all RPheads! As a special treat for all our loyal listeners in Gape Nation - no doubt inveterate tokers to a man - we present a special omnibus edition of our two-part investigation into the stoner movie subgenre from last year. Original episode one description: This episode is about stoner movies. Lowest common denominator stuff. Movies that are just about weed. Movies where weed solves everything. What more do we need to say? How High. Half Baked. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, the single most searing satire of Bush-era America. They're all here. Tune in, toke up, drop out. Part one of two. Original episode two description: part 2 of the great Jack/Yair stoner movie extravaganza. after a brief sidetrack on netflix's particular brand of woke capitalism (for the avoidance of doubt, it's the "capitalism" part we're against rather than the "woke" part) this time we go through some of the more debatably stoner-oriented films on the genre's wikipedia page, look back at two shows that perfected the stoner comedy form through the medium of television rather than film, and spend an inordinate amount of time discussing late period Kevin Smith. Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear more exclusive, fully fleshed out episodes like this, and much more besides.

Jack draws on extensive Beach Boys research to regale Yair with tales of their famously awful frontman and artistic parasite, Mike Love, and why we must all suffer for Mike Love's art. NOTE - We have opted for the Americanised "asshole", as is the common parlance when discussing Mike Love, as a quick Google search of "Mike Love asshole" will bear out, once you've sifted through all the pornography. Similar results to "Mike Gapes" really. Subscribe to the RP Patreon today at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the second part, along with an extra half hour of material from the sessions for our 238th episode.

Our friend Jordan Hartley of the Comradio podcast (@JordanHartley89) interviews Darren Procter, National Secretary of the RMT, about the recent layoffs of P&O workers and resultant industrial action. Solidarity with the workers!

Once again, leftists are being asked "will you condemn?" about things we either needn't or have already condemned. Jack, Yair and Geraint reiterate that we are under no obligation to prove our leftist credentials by becoming neocons, then revisit a very funny Twitter brouhaha concerning the Mouth of Sauron, and Keir Starmer's extensive history with tax-dodging law firm (capital F Firm, if you Grisham Heads get me!!) Mishcon de Reya. Subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik today to hear another entirely new episode, this one about what a prick Mike Love from the Beach Boys is. As ever, we are taking on the real issues head on.

Recorded immediately prior to Patreon exclusive KRPFM's Sounds of the Seventies Vol. 1, the boys (in this case Jack, Yair and Geraint) get together for the first time in 2022 to just talk some shit about our political foes, from grifting viral "satirists" to nuke-loving Open Labour uwu bellends, to the despicable Sir Tony Blair himself. We also get sidetracked talking about paedophiles for like half an hour, which Jack does his best to stop, but comprehensively fails. Produced by Yair. For more stuff like this, kindly subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik and give us the will to go on!

smears against the leader of the opposition - bad now, apparently.

Comrade, rock 'n' roller, sometime Desolation Radio host and Welshman Stefan AKA "Shrieking Tinman" (@phased_bemused on the Twitter) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint to talk about the legacy of South Park and its ceaselessly vulgar brand of social commentary; whether it really curdled the brains of a generation, whether it has now truly "gone woke", and whether co-creator/sole writer & director Trey Parker is the Pasolini of post-1997 America.

In the first instalment of a multipart series, Jack, Tom and Yair go deep on the first six James Bond films, plus 1981's non-canonical return to the franchise by Sean Connery, the MacGruberesquely titled Never Say Never Again. Our appraisal of the entire Roger Moore era has already been recorded, and we plan to enlist Geraint to help us discuss the last three James Bonds - Dalton, Brosnan, and Connery - before Christmas. Peace! Produced by Yair. For more episodes like this, and our brand new classic rock radio format, go to patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe.

Please enjoy this audio of the last 2.5 hours of Sinan Kose's New Year's Eve Twitch stream ft. Jack, FFF, nparticipacion, Juliet Jacques, @uslu_em, John Duncan, Jordan Hartley & more (genuinely struggling to remember, there were so many people). This, however, is only the Jack-featuring portion of the stream, although he's somewhat absent for a bit towards the start while he (off mic) eats some sausages and chips. Anyway, it gets really fun - we talk about Mike Hookem punching out his UKIP colleague in 2016, how Mike Gapes jokes are if anything the most moral thing in the world, and all sorts of other shit. Jack even gets the old guitar out to sing Auld Lang Syne and, er, Come Out Ye Black And Tans. FFF is on it, so you can imagine Sinan had some good reason to bin it off his Twitch channel. Thankfully, we lack his rigorous editorial standards.

Jack reviews GET BACK (Peter Jackson, 2019) - this year's 7.5hr Disney+ docuseries about the making of the Beatles' Let It Be album in 1969 - with help from youtuber, artist, and fellow Beatles fan Lilly AKA mothcub, who you can find on Twitter @mothcub_ and on YouTube simply as mothcub. We end up talking a lot about solo Ringo Starr. This episode also features covers by Jack - who produced it - of The Ballad of John & Yoko (Lennon/McCartney), How Do You Sleep? (Lennon) and Let It Be (McCartney/Lennon.)

Jack and Geraint present your semi-regular RP politics roundup ON: Sir Keir Starmer's ultra-Blairite new shadow cabinet and appointment of David Blunkett to an advisory role, newly surfaced evidence of Jeffrey Epstein hanging out at the Queen's private Balmoral pad, the typically vapid annual British Journalism Awards, and - on a less political note for this politics roundup - the death of great reggae bassist Robbie Shakespeare, which inspires us to look back on Tory singer-songwriter Gary Barlow's most Tory album ever. PLUS we read some of Bob Dylan's Gapesiest lyrics.

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour of material (plus a bonus 20 mins of dope Dylan covers!) Jack, Yair and TOM (not disso! original tom!) did a long recording where we covered every James Bond until Timothy Dalton, at which point Tom's internet crapped out, and Jack and Yair decided to talk about non-Bond movies for a bit in his stead. don't worry, though! Tom does appear here, as we edited together the non-Bond (are you getting the title now? there's three of us, and we're not talking James Bond) film discussion from after he left with our catch-up with Tom from before we really got into the issue you at hand. Yair recommends 'Love Liza' starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a bunch of cool foreign cinema. Jack bitches about the Eternals discourse and gets annoyed at someone for contradicting something he said on Twitter about Bob Dylan. WARNING: Contains a modicum of Van Morrison/Clapton discussion.

Hear this full episode and much more by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik For 80 mins (ok, some of which is dedicated to Turkish pastries and Metallica) Jack & Sinan (@TheSinanKose on Twitter, @SKTheCrusader on Twitch) go EVEN DEEPER into Len McCluskey's Always Red: his feud with the hated Tom Watson, his feud with the hated Gerard Coyne, and OUR feud with the hated Stephen Bush, on whom we do a reading series of sorts. Seriously, though, skip through that first 20 mins if you don't want to hear the discussion of Mediterranean delicacies and Metallica.

Further thoughts from Jack and friend of the show Sinan Kose (@SKTheCrusader on Twitch and @TheSinanKose on Twitter) on former Unite the union general secretary Len McCluskey's recent memoir Always Red, which we first reviewed on Sinan's stream recently. In these highlights from a longer conversation (more of which will be available tonight on the RP Patreon) we talk about the unique bind of Brexit on the left, the differences in political strategy between McCluskey and his (also left-wing) successor Sharon Graham, and go through McCluskey's account of his relationship with Keir Starmer the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party. In addition to a further hour and a half or so of material at patreon.com/reelpolitik very shortly, you can listen to our initial review of McCluskey's book at https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/reviewing-len-mccluskeys-always-red-a-sinan-kose-stream-w-jack-frayne-reid or on this very feed on your podcast app of choice.

Jack joins Sinan Kose on his stream to talk about 'Always Red', the new memoir by the most formidable trade union leader of our lifetimes, Len McCluskey. Len, come on our podcast. Check out Sinan's Twitch stream @ twitch.com/SKTheCrusader Keep checking this feed and patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear us elaborate further on our thoughts on this book.

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full hour-long episode, as well as part one of this two-parter, and much more! (Direct link to the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/58125083) part 2 of the great Jack/Yair stoner movie extravaganza. after a brief sidetrack on netflix's particular brand of woke capitalism (for the avoidance of doubt, it's the "capitalism" part we're against rather than the "woke" part) this time we go through some of the more debatably stoner-oriented films on the genre's wikipedia page, look back at two shows that perfected the stoner comedy form through the medium of television rather than film, and spend an inordinate amount of time discussing late period Kevin Smith. Produced by Yair w/ very minor tweaks by Jack

Fellow left-wing podcaster Aarjan (@aarjanistan) joins Jack and tom disso (@nailheadparty) to get into a long-awaited discussion of Kanye West's (or Ye's, as I guess we're supposed to call him now) most recent studio album DONDA, a fascinating record in equal parts ambitious and overstuffed, inspired and incoherent. We talk about how early 2010s EDM is already the most dated music in history, Kanye's immense struggle to write lyrics after expending so much effort proving himself as an MC, and the similarities between his outlook on the world and that of the Taliban. NOTES: Quality improves drastically after the first few minutes. We recorded like three and a half hours of this shit, so there's probably two more episodes to come.

Jack joined friend of the show Sinan Kose's epic "chaos stream" in the wake of last month's Labour conference to discuss the ways that Starmer used it as an opportunity to railroad the left - this recording covers the stream from the point at which he joined the conversation. It treads similar thematic ground to our recent episode with Tom Blackburn, which you should check out, along with Sinan's Twitch stream at twitch.tv/skthecrusader, and his Twitter account @TheSinanKose.

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear this full episode - located here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57324327 - and much, much more exclusive content! This episode is about stoner movies. Lowest common denominator stuff. Movies that are just about weed. Movies where weed solves everything. What more do we need to say? How High. Half Baked. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, the single most searing satire of Bush-era America. They're all here. Tune in, toke up, drop out. Part one of two.

Jack and Geraint are joined by guru of Reel Politik Thought Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever on Twitter), a writer and editor for New Socialist and contributor to Tribune and the Guardian. Tom breaks down the labyrinthine political developments that took place over the week or so surrounding Labour's annual conference, in which Kieth Starmer delivered an endless speech written by the *politically* bald Phil Collins and rigged the party rules to shut the left out of the leadership indefinitely. Tom is an informed and erudite voice on any number of political matters, and especially the (arduous) struggle for socialism within the Labour Party, so those who want a clear-eyed take on Starmer's right-wing ideological project should check this episode out: along the way we read ridiculous pieces by Robert Peston, by Tanya Gold for the-other-cow-site (alongside mikegapes.co.uk) Unherd, and some stuff from the now-buried leaked Labour report into how the party's right purposefully threw elections while Corbyn was leader.

Jack and Geraint are joined by Toronto's preeminent man of letters Will Sloan, co-host of the Michael & Us - @michael-and-us - and Important Cinema Club - @the-important-cinema-club - podcasts*, who tweets @WillSloanEsq. The topic of the day is the late period work of six of comedy's grandest old lions in winter - well, five really, as Graham Chapman died in 1989 at the age of only 48; yes, the old men whose turn it is to cop that trademark RP smoke today are the Monty Python team, and the work they've made both together and apart since their final feature film as a team, 1983's The Meaning of Life. We look at their varying approaches to coasting on past glories and - inspired by John Cleese and Terry Gilliam's sad decline into "you can't say anything these days" reactionary grumbling - the politics of Python. Their various reunions and semi-reunions are addressed, in addition to Eric Idle's appointment of himself as unofficial custodian of the group's legacy, steering them in an extremely lucrative kind of "Elvis in Vegas", Python-in-a-sparkly-suit, light entertainment type direction. We also relive the time Will bullied Idle off Twitter in argument over Jeremy Corbyn. *those @s are for our fellow soundcloud users.

Writer, Red Pepper co-editor, and repeat RP guest Rhian E Jones - author of the new book Paint The Town Red and co-host of the Handbags & Gladrags podcast - joins Jack for a long-promised Dylanological summit, inspired in particular by his recent "livestream" performance Shadow Kingdom and the new, 16th, edition of his Bootleg Series, Springtime In New York (which features rare tracks from 1980-5.) We talk about the enormously creatively vibrant Infidels era, the lyrical peaks of 2001's "Love & Theft", how 2020's Rough & Rowdy Ways (reviewed previously on this show) proved that he's still got it, and his truly career-spanning setlist on the - final to date - 2019 leg of the Never Ending Tour. Check out Rhian's two podcasts for Repeater Radio: the Raymond Williams-inspired, Welsh-centric Border Country - https://www.repeater-radio.com/bordercountry - and her collaboration with Eli Davies about women and pop culture, Handbags and Gladrags - https://www.repeater-radio.com/handbagsandgladrags - and pick up a copy of Paint The Town Red at the Repeater site: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/paint-your-town-red-how-preston-took-back-control-and-your-town-can-too/

After a short hiatus for most of August, RP is back on the hype. Yair is back from paternity leave, and joins Jack and Geraint to discuss a trifecta of pivotal political matters: firstly, we celebrate the delicious defeat of the dastardly Gerard Coyne in the Unite General Secretary election. Then - taking up the bulk of the episode - we discuss the insidious political persecution and cruel vilification of legendary socialist, Britain's greatest filmmaker, Ken Loach. Finally, we yuk it up about Geronimo the Alpaca (RIP) and then do about 5 unplanned minutes on Netflix's shitty Woodstock '99 doc.