Jun 11, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min · 7 segments
This week, Rivka and Frank are reunited with Daniel, host of The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union, to discuss another classic: Rain…
Um, we had one thing we wanted to talk about, or I wanted to talk about here, uh, at the top, because this is a pretty big story in the entertainment industry right now.
And perfectly a perfect story for movies versus capitalism.
Um,
And I know nothing of this.
So I'm going to get I'm going to hear it along with you listeners.
Live reactions.
So I wanted to talk about the the box office sensation breaking all kinds of records.
that part.
You have not seen it.
I have not seen it.
Right.
You haven't seen it.
I haven't seen it.
No, I just know that like it's a it's a cultural moment.
It's a cultural moment.
This is an independent horror movie written and directed by a 26 year old writer director named Curry Barker, who came up doing like sketch comedy has a pretty big following online, made this indie horror movie.
I think he made a short first to get like proof of concept and then like got a budget, had a budget of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to make this movie.
Yep.
Wow.
Very,
which is low, which is for a feature film.
That is very low.
Even for
indie indie.
Um, we had one thing we wanted to talk about, or I wanted to talk about here, uh, at the top, because this is a pretty big story in the entertainment industry right now.
And perfectly a perfect story for movies versus capitalism.
Um,
And I know nothing of this.
So I'm going to get I'm going to hear it along with you listeners.
Live reactions.
So I wanted to talk about the the box office sensation breaking all kinds of records.
that part.
You have not seen it.
I have not seen it.
Right.
You haven't seen it.
I haven't seen it.
No, I just know that like it's a it's a cultural moment.
It's a cultural moment.
This is an independent horror movie written and directed by a 26 year old writer director named Curry Barker, who came up doing like sketch comedy has a pretty big following online, made this indie horror movie.
I think he made a short first to get like proof of concept and then like got a budget, had a budget of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to make this movie.
Yep.
Wow.
Very,
which is low, which is for a feature film.
That is very low.
Even for
indie indie.
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