tearjerkers

This week you might need to grab a box of tissues and that’s not just because of our unrelenting dad sexiness but also because we’re going to be getting all emotional in emotions week as we start things off by counting down the top 5 Tearjerkers, the movies that squeezed tears out of the empty space where our souls used to be.

Todd Solondz's 1998 black comedy HAPPINESS is a movie so relentlessly dark I had to watch it with night vision goggles on. Sort of focusing on the unhealthy relationship between the Jordan sisters; Helen, a bored celebrity ice queen author with fantasies of sexual violence, Trish, an unfulfilled housewife trapped in a sham marriage and Joy, a sensitive but dim-witted free-spirit searching for love, this is also the kind of movie where mouth-breathing incels lounge around in their underwear making abusive phone calls whilst jacking off, a lonely frump seeking connection murders and dismembers her neighbourhood rapist and the final scene features an 11 year old boy triumphantly announcing they've achieved their first ever orgasm. Not to mention the film’s most infamous scenes featuring Dylan Baker's Bill, a predatory psychiatrist which I have in fact now mentioned. HAPPINESS is not a bad movie but it is a deeply unpleasant one, with its depressive mood and view of mankind as putrid, self-involved slaves to their nastiest impulses becoming absolutely over-bearing by the end. Maybe that's the point, this isn’t the most profound movie of all time.

In our final section of the show we'll be exploring anger via the medium of animated birds and fascist pigs trapped in an endless cycle of violence with Netflix’s ANGRY BIRDS SLINGSHOT SERIES.  Slingshot? Slingshit more like.

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Until next time, we remain...

Bad Dads

Up and coming singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, whose 'Punisher,' is one of the most  acclaimed albums of the year, joins host Steve Baltin to talk about her favorite protest songs from Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Bright Eyes, among others. 

"My favorite protest songs are the ones that basically say just exactly what's happening or what happened. That's the most heartbreaking stuff with any art, like a traumatizing movie based on true events or something. All they really do is lay out the facts of what happened and it's just so heartbreaking," she says.