Reel Politik Podcast

Jack talks to author Toby Manning (@TobyManning) about his new book Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music, out now from Repeater Books. Naturally, a very JFR-brained understanding of "pop" is applied to the conversation, which focuses on the Rolling Stones and Paul Weller as case studies in the connections between popular music and political ideology. (Couldn't resist getting Toby's thoughts on the Tom York situation at the end.)

In a heated debate, the fellas settle the burning question of our time once and for all: is Eric Clapton better - politically, musically and personally - than Tom York of Radio Head. SUBSCRIBE @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK & HEAR THE FULL HOUR @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/115799124

Tom York #1 Israel fan + US election (recorded before polling day)

probing the online subculture of the strangest little town in England (2021) 00:00 to 19:23 - Vike Gapes presents CHAOS TALKING (A Sinan Kose stream ft. Jack Frayne-Reid, FFF & nparticipation) 19:23 to end - Reel Politik 205 - Latest Podcast Project, Vol. 1 (ft. FFF)

the Reel Politik podcast review the funniest album of all time in a number of different permutations between 2021-4 00:00:00 - 00:22:12 - Reel Politik 205 ft. FFF - Latest Podcast Project, Vol. 1 (hosts: Jack/Geraint) (2021) 00:22:12 - 00:44:59 - Reel Politik 216 - Latest Podcast Project, Vol. 2 (hosts: Jack/Tom/Yair) (2021) 00:44:59 - 00:53:21 - Reel Politik 228 - Three Non-Bonds (hosts: Jack/Tom/Yair) (2021) 00:53:21 - 01:00:47 - We Don't Talk About The Weather 144 - My Corona (ft. Juliet Jacques & Jack Frayne-Reid) (2021) 01:00:47 - 01:18:38 - RP270 Extra ft. @phased_bemused (hosts: Jack/Geraint) (2023) 01:18:38 - 01:19:41 - Celtic Ligers 054 (ft. Jack Frayne-Reid) (2024) 01:19:41 - Jack covers Crazy Love as part of "Wedding Songs" rehearsal set (2023)

SUBSCRIBE OVER AT WWW.PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK FOR $5 AND HEAR THE FULL 73 MIN BONUS EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115276674 you sort of get us in various different combinations on this one - starts off me and Yair, then it's the three of us, then it's Yair and Steffan, then it's the three of us again, then it's me and Steffan. anyway, drawing on Steffan's expertise we sort of interrogate queer identity here - via an incomprehensible tweet about Chappell Roan - in a brand new segment that Yair described to me as "little risqué at times but nothing crossed my own personal lines". i fucking love chopping it up with my boy Shrieking Tinman so this was great fun to record + listen back to - Jack

Steffan @phased_bemused returns to the show to stand in for an absent @wariotifo* as we discuss the Mike Amesbury punching scandal, the slight return of Borat, a Jewish community centre protested simply for hosting Tony Blair and multiple other war criminals, and some neocon tosser's latest "final straw" with the left. *nothing serious, he was just hosting the Top Rope Deep Dive wrestling stream at twitch.com/MarkedAsRed BONUS EPISODE FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS DROPPING SHORTLY @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK

from 2019 - @wariotifo's 2nd and 3rd episodes as co-host, on the neoconservative blog Harry's Place. part 2 previously only available @ patreon.com/reelpolitik. SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK TO HEAR A BRAND NEW EPISODE FT. ORIGINAL CO-HOST TOM FOSTER: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-309-mega-114637979 Original episode descriptions: PART ONE: BRING IT ON DOWN TO HARRY'S PLACE Jack is joined by the Reel Politik Podcast's new Director of Strategy & Communications (Mr Seumas Miwne), Geraint (@wariotifo on Twitter), to go back to the mid-00s heyday of the Sensible/Decent Left, the pro-war ideologues who gave us the Euston Manifesto, the website Harry's Place, and various LM Network-style front organisations. We look at how this tendency of the Crank Centre laid the groundwork for much of the centrist hysteria directed today at the Corbynite left for their foreign policy stances, and how they even chillingly predicted many of the concerns & talking points of what would become known as the alt-right. Many stalwart enemies of the show make appearances, such as Nick Cohen and longtime melt enterprise Little Atoms. PowerBase was an invaluable resource when researching this episode (powerbase.info/index.php/Main_Page) and we'd also like to thank our friend Phil BC for some of his writing on Harry's Place and the hated Decents. PART TWO: HARRY'S PISS AND YOU HAVE THE second instalment of our two-parter on the hated Harry's Place, the pro-war shitrag that set the blogosphere alight in the early to mid 2000s. We conclude our discussion on these horrendous hawk bastards - including their hated affiliate Stephen Pollard - before discussing the hated Frank Field's new Birkenhead Social Justice Party and portrayals of class and "the underclass" in cinema. We play the episode out with a song by the legendary Silver Jews, in tribute to the late, and dearly missed, David Berman.

GO TO PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK AND SUBSCRIBE TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-309-mega-114637979 When he came down to visit last weekend, I was able to persuade (well, more sort of "trap") retired Reel Politik co-founder Tom Foster into appearing on the show again - his only condition being that it be released exclusively on the Patreon rather than to a "mass" audience. This was, in my view, a price worth paying to have the chance to chop it up with my good mate Tom once again after what is probably a good couple of years, and to get his thoughts on Francis Ford Coppola's divisive epic MEGALOPOLIS, as well as the upcoming work of Clint Eastwood and the Nick Love/Danny Dyer axis. I also recount my recent discovery of an old article by centrist thought guru Dorian Lynskey where he uses the n-word. Peace + love, JFR

Reel Politik head honcho Jack Frayne-Reid makes an unplanned appearance on @wariotifo & @MarkedAsRed's Top Rope Deep Dive wrestling stream last Sunday. Featuring a brief and non-consensual cameo from original RP host Tom Foster. Top Rope Deep Dive - twitch.com/MarkedAsRed Reel Politik - patreon.com/reelpolitik

reviewing the self-published oral history of the titular new centrist party, "Change UK: The Independent Group"...for SEVEN HOURS 00:00 - 3:21:56 - "And You Have The Book..." - An SKTheCrusader stream ft. Jack Frayne-Reid & @wariotifo 3:21:56 - 6:06:41 - Reel Politik, Episode 269 - bröther may i have some gäpes (ft. Sinan Kose) 6:06:41 - 7:20:28 - RP269 Extra (ft. Sinan Kose) (previously only available at patreon.com/reelpolitik) compilation originally released @ https://www.youtube.com/@reelpolitik6696. find Sinan there @ https://www.youtube.com/@SKTheCrusader & on patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/SKTheCrusader

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sudden death of Alex Salmond, Sue Gray shitcanned in favour of Morgan McSweeney, Starmer disciplining MP for being mean about P&O, new Freedland, new Kern, new book on Starmerism, McSweeney propaganda podcast + latest Israel fan pant-pissing about Godspeed You! Black Emperor and other bullshit MINDBLOWING BONUS HOUR COMING TODAY TO PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK

Welsh Boy Summer never ends! Talk radio lives! Another hour of us shooting the shit with the boy Steffan @phased_bemused exclusively for RP Patreon subscribers. PAY UP @ patreon.com/reelpolitik AND HEAR THE WHOLE THING HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113788744?pr=true

Certified Welsh Boy Steffan @phased_bemused joins Jack, Yair & Geraint (from Wales) to talk STARMER MELTDOWN, as his failing government sinks further into a sordid miasma of corruption and scandal. #StarmerOut #FuckThatCunt SUBSCRIBE @ patreon.com/reelpolitik TO HEAR A WHOLE OTHER HOUR OF MATERIAL WITH STEFFAN

Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon) insisted on joining Jack and Yair to review the hated Bryan Singer's 2008 film Valkyrie, and we gladly obliged. Tune in to learn the largely Wikipedia-sourced history of how Adolf Hitler was NOT killed by Tom Cruise fifty years to the day Jack was born. NOTE: Due to our eternal issues with technology, from almost exactly halfway through there's a significant decrease in the quality of the recording on Jude's end.

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK AND HEAR THE FULL HOUR OF MATERIAL AT: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp306-extra-ft-113240842 In this selection of bonus material from our forthcoming 306th episode on the Tom Cruise/Bryan Singer joint VALKYRIE, I manage to get our longtime friend & contributor Jude Wanga @judeinlondon to discuss politics with me for about 20 minutes before Yair turns up, and then Yair talks a bit about it with us, and then there's some movie chat that I thought was a bit off topic for the main episode. TOPICS: The Jas Athwal Ilford South slum landlord scandal, Jude's travels in America and the (unrelated) first (!) assassination attempt on "DJT", clips of some mad American cunt on GB News that Eyup Lovely sent me, Tim vs Jeff Buckley, the death of Hollywood at the hands of "IP", music biopics and you know what fuck it we do actually discuss Oasis a little bit hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

GO TO PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK & SIGN UP TO HEAR THE FULL 50 MINS @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/112496128 We are proud to unveil the rest of our thrilling conversation with tha god HORSE about the greatest band in the fuckin world circa 1994-96 - a remarkable achievement as these were particularly active years for Neil Young & Crazy Horse (no relation). Bookended by choice cuts from a 2000 BBC radio session, this bonus episode covers: the name "horse", a very affordable concert of Welsh music Geraint saw 25 years ago, inconclusive analyses of Noel and Liam's present stations in life, horse liberating Noel G demo tapes from private collectors, Noel G "liberating" lyrics and melodies from Scouse rockers The Real People (no relation), the baffling continued existence of Toploader, Jack's comprehensive (well, abandoned after going through the Creation Records wikipedia page) list of good post-70s British bands, Liam's solo career and falsetto-singing aptitude and Jack and horse's in-the-flesh encounters with Noel and Liam.

RP Jack @FrayneJack34043 joins RP Geraint @wariotifo, Emir @MarkedAsRed and Farages Fucked Face @soldierpaypig on the Top Rope Deep Dive wrestling stream to watch the SURVIVOR SERIES 1998, the 12th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view event (per Wikipedia). Including many weird detours such as WHY Stone Cold Steve Austin is "the bald Corbyn" (per FFF), and WHAT are the best albums of 1998. Watch TOP ROPE DEEP DIVE @ twitch.com/MarkedAsRed

The mysterious "horse" joins Jack & Geraint* to talk all things OASIS, being fucking madferrit, and putting your brotherly differences aside for a big fat payday via some dubious ticket-selling practises. We go deep on the deep cuts, survey the smoking scene of the band's many lovers and haters in their eternal mutual jihad, and relive many funny moments from Oasis history. And at the end of the day...that is it. (NOTE: That is not actually it, as we recorded a bunch more stuff on Oasis that will be dropping exclusively on patreon.com/reelpolitik very soon.) *Yair will return on the next episode alongside another longtime RP favourite...

Oasis are back and we are MAD FOR IT! In our latest trawling of the extensive RP Archives (thousands of priceless reels of tape hidden away deep underwater in Tom Watson's secret locked Drenge wank bunker in the middle of the Pacific ocean) we present OASIS OMNIBUS, a compilation of roughly half of each of Patreon exclusives RP271 and 274 Extra, plus clips from original RP scripted productions TIM PEAKS: FARRON WALK WITH ME and GAPEFEST: A WEEKEND OF MUSIC & MILK. WARNING: Contains horrendous JFR cover of Roll With It. And not the Steve Winwood tune. Much more shit like this exclusively @ patreon.com/reelpolitik

SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLTIK AND GET THE FULL BONUS EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110584565 Geraint and Clara talk a bit more about the riots, but mostly an exasperated Geraint assists Jack with his latest breakdown-inducing tech issues.

Jack and Geraint are joined by journalist Samantha Asumadu to talk about The Trashies, the UK's premier awards for bad journalism, which she's been running via Media Diversified since 2014, and are returning this year after a short absence. We go through some of the worst dogshit printed by the British press in recent memory, before Geraint talks to Sam about her investigative podcast TRAPPED: The IPP Prisoner Scandal. Check out TRAPPED at https://shows.acast.com/trapped-the-ipp-prisoner-scandal, follow it on Twitter at @Trapped_Pod and follow Sam at @SamanthaAsumadu. Media Diversified can be found via https://mediadiversified.org/ and on Twitter @WritersOfColour. Finally, subscribe to Sam's newsletter at https://samanthaasumadu.substack.com/.

Jack and Geraint are joined by journalist Clara Hill (@clara_ish) and general friend of the show Eve (@femsocialist) to talk about the antifascist protests the two guests have attended in recent days, and the far-right riots that necessitated them. (NOTE: Eve shows up about halfway through.)

HEAR THE FULL HOUR+ @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp302-extra-jess-109578579 BY SUBSCRIBING @ patreon.com/reelpoliik DISCLAIMER: No part of Simon Hattenstone's Guardian interview with Jess Phillips - which we read through here - actually takes place at a shoe factory.

Since our last recording, a lot has happened - we have vanquished our mortal foes Joe Biden and Blairite Vaugahn Gehthing, and witnessed a failed attempt on the life of Donald Trump, arguably incited by a prominent British journalist. Meanwhile, the UK goes to the dogs under the right-wing government of Sir Keir Starmer. In RP302, we call for the temperature to be taken down in the political discourse and a return to civility, condemn the woke pro-Welsh agenda of Deadpool, look at some hot new competitors on the podcasting market, and look at the UK's new Labour government's policies towards Israel and how they're basically the same as those of the previous Conservative one.

THE REEL POLITIK PODCAST & SINAN KOSE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT... Our FULL election night stream from the night of July 4th-5th. 7 hours of raw & real politics, concrete facts and hard, eternal truths. All the breaks with no talking CUT OUT! Featuring special guests Brigette Empire (@BrigetteEmpire), Juliet Jacques (@ZinovievLetter), Steffan/Shrieking Tinman (@phased_bemused), Marlon J. Ettinger (@MarlonEttinger), Olly Haynes (@reality_manager), Eve (@femsocialist), Max Shanly (@maxshanly), "ian mighty" (@iammightor), and the Podcasting Is Praxis crew (@PraxisCast). STARMER OUT! twitch.com/SKTheCrusader / patreon.com/reelpolitik

Go to https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik & subscribe to hear the full reading of both articles here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp300-extra-eye-108317226 In our first post-election bonus ep, we provide readings of two articles on Jeremy Corbyn's victorious campaign to be Independent MP for Islington North. These are: SPECIAL REPORT: Inside Islington North as Jeremy Corbyn wins again by Lee Harpin AND Shame on Islington North for falling for magic grandpa again by Orlando Radice PRODUCED BY YAIR RICE

French politics gurus Olly Haynes @reality_manager & Marlon J. Ettinger @MarlonEttinger from @flep24pod (now rechristened "FLAP" - the French Legislative Assembly Podcast 2024) give Jack @FrayneJack34043 & Geraint @wariotifo the lowdown on the recent legislative elections, Mélenchon's tactical genius & Macron's conservatism.

RP returns to document the new Starmer era in which we now live, offering our assets a debrief on the 2024 UK General Election, before doing a classic RP Reshuffle Rundown as we go through the great and the good in Sir Keir's government of all the talents.

This general election, we have endeavoured, and put our hearts, souls and bodies on the line, to bring you nothing but the most essential CONCRETE FACTS to inform and influence your voting decisions. Now, polling day is nearly upon us. Beware the Ides of March. The age of the antichrist has just only begun. What more can you say, really? At the end of the day - that is it. Our guest on this episode is our official Welsh correspondent Steffan, AKA Shrieking Tinman @phased_bemused. Subscribe @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear EXCLUSIVE EXTRA MATERIAL FROM THIS EPISODE plus THE WHOLE LAST EPISODE. Tune in @ twitch.com/SKTheCrusader tomorrow night from 9:30 for THE SINAN KOSE/REEL POLITIK ELECTION NIGHT STREAM - open all night!

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Jack interviews Ilford South investigative journalist Jimothy Baker (@JimothyBaker) to get a sense of the situation on the ground in the key battleground seat of Ilford South.

The great comedian Josie Long returns to the show for the first time since the last good & fun General Election to talk about a particularly febrile week in politics and our collective obstinate refusal to stop being socialists.

In their first recording as a duo since deading their staged beef to focus on election coverage, Jack and Geraint once again DECLARE WAR on British light entertainment comedy, training their fire on BLAIRITE STOATS Messrs Iannucci, Cleese, Richardson, Forde & Manners.

Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik & hear the full 88 MIN EPISODE at https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-294-ft-106304043. Farages Fucked Face @soldierpaypig returns to the show for our worst election coverage yet. TV debates ("Starmer dropped the ball"). Scurrilous gutter press gossip. Highly targeted character assassinations. It's all here and it's all a fucking mess. This extract deals with two of the most influential Labour psychos of recent years: Luke Akehurst and Mike Katz.

In light of news that Labour plan to put shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves at the centre of their general election campaign, we are re-releasing this choice half-hour from an episode last year (RP271: Shoe Factory), in which we conclude a run-through Keir Starmer's then-new ultra-Blairite shadow cabinet with nods to key Reeves allies Pat McFadden and sister Ellie Reeves, before reading a truly weird Guardian profile of Rachel by Simon Hattenstone, which she insists be conducted at a shoe factory her grandparents did not work at.

In a shock intervention in the 2024 UK general election, Jack (@FrayneJack34043) and Geraint (@wariotifo) are joined by Reel Politik herself, Juliet Jacques (@ZinovievLetter) to call for the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party.

Another major figure from RP history, Sinan Kose (twitch.com/SKTheCrusader) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint to talk all things UK general election. In addition to Starmer's pledge to destroy the world with a nuclear bomb, and Farage's effective endorsement of Starmer, we introduce new RP segment "QUIZ THE YANK", in which America-residing traitor Y.S. Rice's knowledge of the arcane and British is put to the test. Plus some of our regular faves including White Mike Rapaport, Luke "the Nuke" Akehurst, and Paul"s and Shaft" Mason. WATCH THE SINAN KOSE/REEL POLITIK ELECTION NIGHT STREAM 4TH JULY ON TWITCH.COM/SKTHECRUSADER FUND OUR PIVOTAL ELECTION COVERAGE AND GET ***MORE*** BY SUBSCRIBING AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK

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Steffan AKA Shrieking Tinman (@phased_bemused) joins Jack and Geraint to talk UK GENERAL ELECTION. #StarmerOut #ConcreteFacts SUBSCRIBE @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK FOR THE ONLY ELECTION COVERAGE THAT MATTERS

What, you ask, differentiates this iteration of this episode (NOTE: listed as canonical episode rather than "RP Extra" as resolves cliffhanger from end of episode 289) from the version on patreon.com/reelpolitik? Well, while this version stops around the half hour mark, that one continues for roughly another 40 minutes! Main topic of discussion: Vile war criminal Antony Blinken performs Neil Young's Rockin' In The Free World in Ukraine. Auxiliary topics: Kendrick/Drake beef, Natalie Elphicke, why we're not voting for Starmer & Biden (this episode was recorded prior to the UK election announcement...ep on that coming later today but needed to release these two sequentially) SUBSCRIBE @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK

Luke Akehurst, the professional apartheid/genocide lobbyist director of "We Believe In Israel" and influential Labour right functionary, is likely to be handpicked by Keir Starmer's dictatorial leadership to run as MP in a very safe seat in the current UK election. In this extract from a much longer episode from 2018, we go through the mad ideological correctness test off his blog, which he apparently still updates and can be found here: https://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com Recording our first episode proper of the election tomorrow!

RP Corp founder Jack Frayne-Reid and post-2019 junior partner G. Wariotifo bicker for an hour or so about the commercial and creative direction of the show, culminating in the return of classic RP segment "Cop or Comrade", a Nick Cave impressions competition, and the shock departure of half the once-iconic duo.

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.

REEL POLITIK PODCAST BACK IN BUSINESS JAN '24

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)