Struggle Session

Listen to the full episode and hundreds of bonus episodes at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode Jack and Leslie dive into two recent animated films whose throwback sensibilities and beautifully bleak styles make them instant classics. Bob and Henry from the great Talking Simpsons podcast joins us to discuss The Spine of Night and Mad God. Intro: Katie Halper livestream with Lucy Lawless, Steven Donziger, and Cornell West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN13gOqOvsI  Check out Talking Simpsons here: https://www.patreon.com/talkingsimpsons  -------------------------------------------------------- Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Support the show by subscribing at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode special guest Molly Lambert joins Leslie to talk about her show HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story. We discuss why the cops went after Heidi, Hollywood's relationship to sex work, Pretty Woman, Showgirls, the OJ Simpson trial, Vince McMahon, and a lot more. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heidiworld-the-heidi-fleiss-story/id1615634639  https://www.patreon.com/HEIDIWORLD  -------------------------------------------------------- Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Struggle Session brought to you by Blue Wire Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Hear the full episode by subscribing at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode Jack and Leslie discuss Rolling Stone's bizarre hit piece on Zack Snyder and Ray Fisher. Exclusive: Fake Accounts Fueled the ‘Snyder Cut’ Online Army https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/justice-league-the-snyder-cut-bots-fans-1384231/  An update from Fisher: https://twitter.com/ray8fisher/status/1549920816950812677  -------------------------------------------------------- Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Support the show by subscribing at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode Jack and Leslie discuss two movies about Tricky Dick, Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) and Robert Altman's Secret Honor (1984) with special guest Aaron Good of American Exception. Check out Aaron's show and book here: https://www.patreon.com/americanexception https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception/ -------------------------------------------------------- Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Hear the full episode by subscribing at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode Jack and Leslie do an apocalyptic double feature with Chapo Trap House's Matt Christman! We discuss John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. -------------------------------------------------------- Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Chapters 1-23 are available at, Book III coming soon! http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode of Struggle Session Presents Alan Moore Jack and Leslie continue their reading of Jerusalem from Modern Times to The Breeze That Plucks Her Apron. We meet more of the Vernal family, Alan Moore's old dirtbag friend, and Charlie Chaplin. Theme: Chaos Theory - Ava Low Read about Dominic Allard's wonderful story here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150121080242/http://www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk/poet-book-published-thanks-old-school-pal-alan/story-25854605-detail/story.html Outro: Alan Moore and Tim Perkins - Art Notes on Jerusalem: https://alanmoorejerusalem.wordpress.com/ Leave us a voicemail on our new website http://sesh.show Get your new merch at http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Listen to the full episode at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com You asked for it, you got it! For the last time we watch Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last Jedi with the one and only Bug Mane. --------------------------------------------------------------- BugCon 2022 will be the last Bug Con. August 20th and 21st at the Burbank Airport Hotel and Convention Center will not only be the biggest BugCon ever, it will also feature the final musical performance by Bug Mane. Badges are now available at the Bazizio store: https://shop.bazizio.com/pages/the-last-bugcon  --------------------------------------------------------------- Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Please support the show by subscribing at http://sesh.plus http://patreon.com/strugglesession and http://strugglesession.substack.com On today’s Struggle Session Jack and Leslie are joined by Matt Binder of DOOMED, Scam Economy, and Majority Report to discuss the life and crimes of the former WWE CEO Vince McMahon. Heads up, the latter half of this episode is as dark as it gets. Intro: Vince McMahon and Murray Hodgson on Donahue - March 16, 1992: https://youtu.be/cPTCRnBEUJM References: WWE Board Probes Secret $3 Million Hush Pact by CEO Vince McMahon, Sources Say https://www.wsj.com/articles/wwe-board-probes-secret-3-million-hush-pact-by-ceo-vince-mcmahon-sources-say-11655322722?mod=e2tw John Cena on WWE Owning His Name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmDKK8taUlo She Was WWE’s First Female Referee. She Says Vince McMahon Raped Her. Rita Chatterton does not want to be forgotten. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/vince-mcmahon-accused-of-rape-by-first-female-wwe-referee.html Brickhouse Brown On Allegations Against Pat Patterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm03nUlylGo Tell us what you think of the show with a voicemail at http://sesh.show Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Support the show and subscribe at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com On today's episode Jack and Leslie talk about the announcements and trailers of Summer Games Fest including The Callisto Protocol, Final Fantasy XVI, Scorn, and Dragon's Dogma 2. We also played a ton of demos for upcoming indie games that are worth checking out: Agent 64: Spies Never Die on Steam Lorn's Lure on Steam Midnight Fight Express on Steam There Is No Light on Steam SCP: Secret Files on Steam SIGNALIS on Steam UNDETECTED on Steam Our track of the week is "Order" by Pet Wife from their latest EP Plastic Set. Pick it up here: https://petwife.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-set-2  Tell us what games you're looking forward to playing by leaving us a voicemail at http://sesh.show ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii

Get every bonus episode when it releases at http://sesh.plus or http://patreon.com/strugglesession or http://strugglesession.substack.com Originally aired on April 3rd, 2022 Who would have thought there'd be twice as many Batman movies after '90s? On part two of this special episode Robbie Martin (Media Roots Radio) joins Jack and Leslie to discuss the entire Batman franchise! On this part we discuss The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Extended Edition (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), and The Batman (2022). Listen to Robbie's show with Abby Martin here: https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio . Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the Batman series at http://sesh.show! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to CULTURE on the Callin app and at HTTP://1900CULTURE.COM Check out our new merch here: http://strugglesession.shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/struggle-session--5842028/support.Subscribe at http://patreon.com/strugglesessionPlease leave us a 5 star review at Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/struggle-session/id1265384284Send an email or voicemail to thestrugglesession@gmail.comKeep up with and contact Leslie: https://msha.ke/lleeiii