Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra turn in a tight ten-minute back-and-forth this week, a consequence of Schulz having seen two films and two previews, total. He usually has more than that, you understand. But that, apparently, is how the season is shaking out: After Beetlejuice Beetlejuice next week, he’ll be catching the new, animated Transformers film. In addition to all these incredibly important dates to keep, Schulz is also directing A Streetcar Named Desire at the Playcrafters Barn Theatre, so he’s got quite a bit going on in his life right now.
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, movies, discussion of. That’s the set-up. That’s what they do. That’s what’s done. We’ll let you know if they decide to play off it (introduce a guest speaker, say) or outright abandon it (the three opt to perform scenes out of Samuel Beckett’s Play, for instance). It’s likely they won’t mess with the format like a certain someone does the mic settings at the beginning of each klatch.
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about the contents of the August edition of the River Cities’ Reader. With Floatzilla and Alternating Currents both wound down (the interview took place on 16 August), it’s time again to feed your heads the old-fashioned way — by reading stuff. Preferably stuff with heft. Stuff for discerning eyeballs. Stuff that reminds you of your rights and responsibilities as a citizen.
Mike Schulz discusses the possibility with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra of an Oscar for Previews, the last Tim Burton film he’s fallen in love with (as opposed to merely enjoying), and the shock reveal that, in the original Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton was on-screen a total of sixteen minutes (get out!), before getting down to the meat of the matter — other movies!
Mike Schulz met up with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra at Awake Coffee to discuss all matters movie. There was no broadcast the previous week, so the trio had a bit of ground to cover.
Mike Schulz discusses cinematic matters with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. Levora believes Twisters could have used more twisters than it gave its audience. That was last week. This week’s fare pales in comparison:
Mike Schulz discusses all things movie with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. The haul promises to be pretty light in the forthcoming weeks, as today’s catch shows. Levora marvels over Inside Out 2 having become the best-selling animated film of all time, with $1.465 billion (and counting) on a $200 million budget. We’re still halfway through the year, though, so who knows if IO2 will close out 2024 as the top dog.
Mike Schulz reunites with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra, having spent the Fourth holiday and a personal vacation away from the studio. Schulz has seen him some movies, and by gum, he’s going to talk about them.
River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail about skateboarding down by the HESCO barriers (good times), the absence of Buried Stories (temporary), and whether TM will make good on an alleged promise and get a tattoo of Julian Assange on his back (will get back to you on that one).
In this podcast, Jason Bermas and Todd McGreevy discuss the Summit Pipeline agenda, which was passed on 25 June by the three members of the Iowa Utility Board. In order for Summit Carbon Solutions to build its carbon-capture-and-storage plant — its two-thousand-mile, multi-state plant, in which liquified CO₂ is carried via pipeline from an ethanol plant in Iowa to sites elsewhere, and (you are asked to believe) both satisfies existing energy concerns and reduces dangerous levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere — it needs to persuade the states involved to exercise eminent domain and secure the necessary land from private citizens who, inconveniently enough, happen to own it. So far, as Clark Kauffman of Iowa Capital Dispatch has reported, Iowa has signed off on the permits necessary for eminent domain to be enacted there. Meanwhile, the Dakotas have proved a tougher nut to crack. Whether Dakotan intransigence can be ascribed to a healthy skepticism of the whole capture-and-storage process and a leeriness of the safety concerns that the project raises (and, as Rochelle Arnold has noted, businesses like Summit tend to elide), or merely an insufficient amount of commercial pressure brought to bear on Dakotan attentions— or six of one, et al — what we are watching play out is another instance of “climate crisis” wolf-bait being tossed out to justify any number of extra-judicial actions taken by the state. This time, what’s actually at stake is the right of property-owners to maintain their fair-market asking-price on their land, and not have it driven down artificially by the mere possibility of eminent-domain interference.
