

Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod)
Haitch Industries
Your portal into cinematic pocket universes, fostering community far from the digital chaos. Join co-hosts Haitch and Jason as we welcome special guests and talk about their favorite movies. We love the genre films that inspired the creation of this show, but we talk about all kinds of movies. Just look at our episodes, choose your favorite movie, and dive right in!
Episodes
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Jun 12, 2023 • 3min
Escape Hatch Launch Delayed
SORRY! The Escape Hatch launch has been delayed until June 25th. Meanwhile, please enjoy this sneak peek.

Jun 5, 2023 • 1h 53min
Brazil (1985)
The. Final. Episode. of Dune Pod. After 150 episodes, the pod ends this week, and next week, on this very same feed, Escape Hatch will be born! To see us out, we welcome back the Emmy winning director of Children of Dune and House of the Dragon, Greg Yaitanes to cover one of the greatest films ever made, Terry Gilliam’s science fiction and paperwork masterpiece, Brazil.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:48)
Greg Yaitanes Interview (00:08:42)
Brazil Roundtable Discussion (00:23:47)
Your Letters (01:29:36)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 29, 2023 • 1h 40min
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Young Jason Month concludes as we’re joined by another one of his Princeton debate colleagues, Jeremiah Gordon. We cover Jeremiah’s favorite movie, John Singleton’s first film, the influential and moving 1991 classic starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Lawrence Fishburne, Boyz n the Hood.
ONLY 2 EPISODES LEFT UNTIL THE END OF DUNE POD AND THE RELAUNCH OF THE PODCAST AS ESCAPE HATCH!
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:13:17)
Boyz n the Hood Roundtable Discussion (00:16:56)
Your Letters (01:26:56)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 22, 2023 • 1h 47min
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
We have long wanted to hear tales of Young Jason, and his collegiate days back at Princeton, whether it’s his rudimentary dietary habits or adventures as a young debate team warrior. This week, his fellow student and debate colleague Steve Yuhan joins us to provide contemporaneous documentation of these days. Then, we discuss Steve and Jason’s favorite movie of that era, the 1994 Coen Brothers’ classic, shot by Roger Deakins, and featuring performances by a transcendent Jennifer Jason Leigh and SILO’s Tim Robbins, The Hudsucker Proxy!
ONLY 3 EPISODES LEFT UNTIL THE END OF DUNE POD AND THE RELAUNCH OF THE PODCAST AS ESCAPE HATCH!
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:11:04)
The Hudsucker Proxy Roundtable Discussion (00:15:19)
Your Letters (01:32:00)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 16, 2023 • 59min
BONUS: Silo Hugh Howey Interview & Episode 3 (2023)
I can’t even. Are you sitting down? We’re joined by the author of the sensational dystopian science fiction classic Wool, that is the source for Apple TV+’s hit new show SILO, HUGH HOWEY. We have an in-depth discussion with Hugh on writing the novel, his place in the rise of digital self publishing over a decade ago, and the translation of his work to the screen. All this plus the shocking events of Episode 3! Somebody pinch me.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 15, 2023 • 1h 38min
Popeye (1980)
We welcome back star reporter and author of the bestselling biography Robin, Dave Itzkoff. We tackle Robin Williams’ first attempt at movie stardom, Robert Altman’s absolutely insane, cocaine fueled movie musical, featuring songs by the legendary Harry Nilsson, and filmed exclusively in a functional village that hundreds of carpenters built from scratch over a year, that 40 years later is still a standing tourist attraction on the isle of Malta, Popeye! What could go wrong?
ONLY 4 EPISODES LEFT UNTIL THE END OF DUNE POD AND THE RELAUNCH OF THE PODCAST AS ESCAPE HATCH!
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:08:46)
Popeye Roundtable Discussion (00:12:16)
Your Letters (01:21:59)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 9, 2023 • 44min
BONUS: Silo Episodes 1 & 2 (2023)
Jason and Haitch have been waiting for this show to be made ever since we independently read the book Wool, by Hugh Howey, almost a decade ago, and tonight we’re covering Apple TV+’s new hit translation, the science fiction show starring David Oyelowo, Rashida Jones, and Dune’s Rebecca Ferguson, Silo!
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Silo Roundtable Discussion (00:04:44)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 8, 2023 • 1h 28min
The Harder They Come (1972)
We make the HUGEST ANNOUNCEMENT in the history of the podcast! Is this the end of Dune Pod, FIND OUT! Plus, we’re joined by the star of the legendary Film Hags and Cinenauts podcasts, Boom. Then we discuss Jimmy Cliff’s Jamaican classic from 1972 that introduced the world to reggae, The Harder They Come.
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:14:45)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Roundtable Discussion (00:18:04)
Your Letters (01:10:25)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 4, 2023 • 24min
BONUS: Emergency Dune Part Two Trailer Reactions (2023)
Well, we’ve all been waiting for our first loving look at Dune Part Two, and boy did we get it, when the full trailer dropped today. Jason and Haitch give you our detailed takes on everything in there to get you hype. Let's goooo!
Chapters
Dune Part Two Trailer Reactions (00:00:00)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

May 1, 2023 • 1h 46min
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Do you love Star Wars? Cause we do! So we celebrate the triumphant return of legendary ILM visual effect editor, Lorelei David! We discuss her recent work on The Mandalorian and then tackle the 1978 San Francisco horror classic that left our mouths hanging open, Donald Sutherland’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
Chapters
Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:12:56)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Roundtable Discussion (00:30:22)
Your Letters (01:29:41)
Notes and Links
Check out the Dune Pod Merch Store! Great swag and every order includes a free Cameo style shoutout from Haitch or Jason. Browse our collection now.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Hang out with Haitch, Jason, and other friends of the pod. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, alongside: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), The Letterboxd Show (Official Podcast from Letterboxd), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and more), Will Run For (obsessed with running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.
Dune Pod: where we talk to our friends about the movies we love.
Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by Haitch
The episode was edited by Megan Hayward of EditAudio and produced by Haitch
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries