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SPECIAL NOTE: SEASON 15 OF THE GOOD, THE POD AND THE UGLY CELEBRATES THE USE OF THE PRACTICAL AND DIGITAL EFFECT KNOWN AS THE SQUIB. IRL GUN VIOLENCE IS INTOLERABLE AND RENOUNCED BUT... CINEMATIC VIOLENCE WILL BE CELEBRATED IN A WAY WILL DISTURB SOME LISTENERS.

After five years, a ban has been lifted—momentarily. For this single episode, the pod’s ironclad rule against discussing a Quentin Tarantino film that has divided our hosts is broken. The director is set free. And Jack goes fugitive this week as TGTPTU discusses the all-so-deliciously-squibby DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012).

Set just a few years before the Civil War to allow Tarantino to have his favorite racial epithet spoken a stunning 110 times—yikes!—juicy bloody condoms burst all across the faux climax of this Neo-Spaghetti Western as Django (the “d” is silent, played by Jamie Foxx) takes his revenge on the Francophile plantation owner, phenology enthusiastic, and curator of the ahistorical bloodsport of Mandingo fighting viz. “Monsieur” Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) for the death of immigrant German dentist+bounty-hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) all lensed by regular QT collaborator Robert Richardson.

This ep, Ken takes issue with the treatment and ambiguity of sexual violence (not?) portrayed in the film, its lazy writing, and that the picture was made after and is not Inglorious Basterds; Thomas, who claims to be both a Boomer and German this episode, brings irrelevant and irreverent German Facts (an unused example: “‘Gesundheit’ is a German’s way of saying: How tall is your gay son?”); and Ryan violates the unspoken rule of keeping talk of Quentin Tarantino on the QT. At least all three hosts agree the triple-threat Actor+Writer+Director Tarantino is best as a just double threat.

So tune in for an episode that answers the age-old question: What if TGTPTU hosts finally take on Quentin Tarantino—and no one does an impression?

Next week Jack returns.

Content Warning: Django Unchained not merely contains but is brimming with a specific racial slur using a hard-r by characters of various races and classes as directed (and written) to do so by a White filmmaker. Django Unchained also contains, and glosses over, sexual violence.

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SPECIAL NOTE: SEASON 15 OF THE GOOD, THE POD AND THE UGLY WILL CELEBRATE THE USE OF THE PRACTICAL AND DIGITAL EFFECT KNOWN AS THE SQUIB. REAL WORLD VIOLENCE IS NOT TOLERATED AND IS RENOUNCED BUT... CINEMATIC VIOLENCE WILL BE CELEBRATED IN A WAY THAT DISTURBS SOME LISTENERS. SQUIBS CAN BE ART

BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)

If they try to act like citizens
And rent them a nice little flat
About the third night
They're invited to fight by a
Sub gun's rat-a-tat
Some day they'll go down together
They'll bury them side by side
To few, it will be grief, to the law a relief
But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde

- Bonnie & Clyde - Serge Gainsbourg

All I need in this life of sin is me and my girlfriend
(Me and my girlfriend)
Down to ride 'til the very end, is me and my boyfriend
(Me and my boyfriend, that's right)
All I need in this life of sin is me and my girlfriend
(Me and my girlfriend, look for me)
Down to ride 'til the very end, is me and my boyfriend
(Me and my boyfriend, talk to 'em, B)

- '03 Bonnie & Clyde, Jay-Z, Beyoncé

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JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2 (2017)

SPECIAL NOTE: SEASON 15 OF THE GOOD, THE POD AND THE UGLY WILL CELEBRATE THE USE OF THE PRACTICAL AND DIGITAL EFFECT KNOWN AS THE SQUIB. REAL WORLD VIOLENCE IS NOT TOLERATED AND IS RENOUNCED BUT... CINEMATIC VIOLENCE WILL BE CELEBRATED IN A WAY THAT DISTURBS SOME LISTENERS. SQUIBS CAN BE ART

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM GUEST EDITOR TERRENCE MALICK!*

Where was I? Oh yes, The ephemeral and elusive act of capturing memory. It has vexed me so the last 60 years as a filmmaker. How do you capture the furtive nature of memory in film? What happened is in the past and dead. All that has meaning is the here and now.

So it is I was contacted by this podcast to listen to raw, uncorrupted and truthful audio of a discussion of John Wick Chapter Two (2017) and edit it into a fine, pleasant and informative podcast. "Jaunty" they say they wanted and, naturally, they thought of me.

I have a tattoo of John Wick saying "I are thought I back" on my right calf so people see it from behind when I am at the gym on the treadmill wearing corduroy athletic shorts. I mention this to let you know I am a super fan of the series and when I listened to the raw, unfiltered audio and thought about the task of editing out co-host Ken's laugh and heavy breathing or Ryan's "Ums" or Zoomer Jack's ToikTok inspired chortles, I realized their special guest Patrick, who runs a record store in Portland, Oregon called "Tomorrow Records" and which I am assured by my vinyl brothers and sisters is a mecca for music, simply did not fit my idea of the episode or, indeed, the film itself.

So I cut him out.

Adrien Brody has won two - TWO - Oscars since I cut him out as the main character of The Thin Red Line. I feel the same fate will befall to Patrick once the sting of my removal has dimmed. What remains is as much a perfect podcast about John Wick 2 as can humanly be achieved.

Please enjoy.

(I have an edit in which the remaining hosts are also removed but I was told an hour of silence would not cut it outside of Apple Exclusive mindfulness podcasts.)

TM - June, 2025

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*not really Terrence Malick. Don't sue us, TM, we love you!