The Good, The Pod and The Ugly
Long-running film podcast featuring hosts Ken, Ryan and Thomas and numerous guests talking filmographies, oddities, classics and side hustles. Through a thousand seasons they have talked about nearly every movie ever made (verified by PodStats Inc).
SEASON 15: SQUIB SEASON! Trace the history of the squib in film through 20 carefully chosen titles. It's kind of gross! Film the last 60 years would be far different without them so it is very important.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 86 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
4X4: Tsai Ming-liang Pt. 1: Smoking and Scooting
4X4 III: TSAI MING-LIANG: REBELS OF THE NEON GOD
It's the beginning of our four film dive into Queer Asian New Wave master Tsai Ming-liang. Released in 1992 and made shortly after Taiwan…
ROBERT ALDRICH IV: 4TH AND THE LONGEST YARD
THE LONGEST YARD
This week, the TGTPTU boys return to prison for more fun and games, this time stopping this 4x4 season’s first round drafted director Robert Aldrich’s run with inches to…
ROBERT ALDRICH III: WE SOME KINDA DIRTY DOZEN?
THE DIRTY DOZEN
Season 13’s 4x4 marches on with the most ill-mannered, ill-disciplined hosts that it’s ever been you’re your displeasure to meet, sergeant. That’s right, the dirtiest voi…
ROBERT ALDRICH II: WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BABY JANE, ANYWAY?
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
TGTPTU Season 13’s 4x4 continues with the second half of its first Robert Aldrich pairing, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962).
Like last week’s entr…
SEASON PREMIERE: ROBERT ALDRICH and THE CIRCLE OF ANNIHILATION
Kiss Me Deadly
Welcome back to TGTPTU, and welcome back in Season 13 to both former cohost Jack and to the 4x4, the latter making its third season appearance! For TGTPTU stans reading th…
NOLAN VOID FINALE: A PINCH OF PAPRIKA
PAPRIKA
For the final episode of Season 12 Nolan Void, the TGTPTU gents get timey-wimy as they repeat last season finale with another film from anime director Satoshi Kon also allegedly …
NOLAN VOID 6.5: INCEPTED
The One With The Dream Stuff Inside Oppenheimer
INCEPTION
This week TGTPTU reaches the timey-wimey center of Season 12 as the Nolan Void temporal pincer pairing movement ends with INCEPT…
NOLAN VOID: WATCH THE WORLD BURN
TGTPTU reaches the beginning of the end of Season 12 as the team covers THE DARK KNIGHT (2008), the penultimate NOLAN VOID film in our temporal pincer pairing movement.
Rebounding from…
NOLAN VOID 5.5: BANE BREAKIN’
This week, the TGTPTU’s untrademarked “temporal pincer movement” catches up with the boys as THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012), Sir Christopher Nolan’s conclusion to his Batman trilogy, gets…
NOLAN VOID 5.0 BATMAN V. WOLVERINE in THE PRESTIGE!
TGTPTU Book Club returns this week with Sir Christopher Nolan’s first and only adaption, i.e., THE PRESTIGE (2006), with bookworm and repeat guest Shannon joining from The Bunker.
Pos…
NOLAN VOID 4.5: INTERSTELLA DA-VIDA
INTERSTELLAR
In this week’s episode of TGTPTU, director-writer-producer Sir Christopher Nolan adds space to his repertoire of time-bending narratives as we venture deeper into The Nolan …
Nolan Void 4.0: Batman Baggins
BATMAN BEGINS
Cast aside your Batnipples! As a certain Patrick Bateman lookalike once said, “Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues,” and this week, TGTPTU tackles thes…
NOLAN VOID 3.5: DUNKIRK STARRING HARRY STYLES
NOLAN VOID 3.5: WET 'N WILD WWII
Join TGTPTU for an hour, a day, a week—the approximate runtime of, how long it feels listening to us talk for, and the delay in releasing the episode d…
NOLAN VOID 5: CAN’T SLEEP? MORK WON’T HELP
NOLANVOID FIVE!
For the first in our third set of NOLAN VOID pairings this week, TGTPTU hosts Ken and Thomas take on the surprisingly linear INSOMNIA (2002) with newly appointed co-host …
NOLAN VOID 2.5: TENET
This week TGTPTU goes deeper into Season 12’s NOLAN VOID with TENET (2020), a title spelled the same forward and backward, and the progenitor of TGTPTU’s “temporal pincer movement” desc…
NOLAN VOID 2.0: MEMENTOS: THE FRESHMAKER
MEMENTO
Our Nolan Void Season continues with the first of our second pairing MEMENTO (2000). Many of you might suspect we would try writing these show notes in reverse, but, as that’d be…
NOLAN VOID 1.5: OPPENHEIMER
Season 12, Episode 2 continues TGTPTU’s paired exploration of the films of Sir Christopher Nolan with his most recent film OPPENHEIMER (2023).
Running the risk of being considered by cr…
NOLAN VOID 1.0: FOLLOWING *SEASON PREMIERE*
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN SZN!
FOLLOWING *SEASON PREMIERE*
For Season 12 *Nolan Void*, TGTPTU continues its iconic practice of pairing bookended movies from a director’s filmography, first and la…
ARONOFSKY FINALE! SEASON FINALE!
Our Darren Ssarfinale!
Season 11 of The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly concludes on an odd note, both mathematically and colloquially, as the boys wrap up their Darren Aronofsky season with…
ARONOFSKY 8: BLACK SWAN
DARREN ARONOFSKY CH. 4 E2: THERE'S A LITTLE BLACK SWAN ON THE SUN TODAY
Season 11’s temporal pincer movement by The Good, The Pod, and The Ugly draws to a close with tricky reflections o…