r/lastpodcastontheleft

I still follow Ben Kissel on Instagram and noticed he called LPOTL an incel show, which confused me because aren't all the guys on the show married?

There seems to still be some bad blood between the guys, but Kissel is the only one who talks about it. It makes me wonder if he's in deep denial or if there's any truth to what he says. I don't know. The incel thing caught me off guard because that seems to be the opposite of LPOTLs fanbase, which includes a lot of women.

No idea what it means. Notice the chains on the alien.

Its obviously AI generated but whats Trumps motive here.

source https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116591901587847680

UPDATE: Donald Trump 'told about UFO retrieval programme' as he shares photo of him next to alien. https://www.the-express.com/news/weird-news/207525/Trump-told-UFO-retrieval-photo-beside-alien

While my expectations were modest, the film exceeded them in some respects, though it ultimately falls short of being genuinely good. It is neither a polished, straightforward production nor a tightly executed parody in the classic ZAZ mold.

The experience is perhaps best described as watching a movie like Hot Shots! while intoxicated. You can generally follow the parodies, recognize the intended jokes, and understand the scene’s purpose, yet everything feels slightly off-kilter and imprecise.

A notable example is the parody of the Hannibal Lecter prison interview scene. The concept offers some sharp moments: Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza (the film’s Hannibal analogue) attempts to profile Joe Dee Fostar (the Clarice analogue) and mistakenly assumes he is a Black woman, leading to an embarrassed correction. The line, “Was the ham silent? Hams can be very quiet. Very quiet. Unless the ham is falling down the stairs, then they go boomdeboomboomboomboom,” elicited a genuine chuckle. However, the overall staging and execution feel overly bizarre and chaotic, which distracts from the humor rather than enhancing it.

Another sequence parodies the famous stair-falling scene from Psycho, featuring the original actor, Martin Balsam. The gag cleverly mocks the clunky green-screen effects of the source material by having the detective tumble out of the building, into the sky, and through a cityscape. While the idea has strong ZAZ potential, the execution, particularly the strangely sped-up editing, undermines its impact and leaves the viewer wondering about the directorial choices.

This highlights a broader shortcoming: unlike The Naked Gun or Hot Shots!, which carefully construct scenes that feel authentic to the films they spoof, allowing the absurd jokes to land with greater surprise and effect, this movie rarely lets its parodies breathe. It’s like they were worried people wouldn’t find the original scene funny so they can rushed to add in a bunch of jokes in post.

In summary, the film contains a fair share of clever ideas and decent laughs, undermined by inconsistent execution, awkward pacing, and tonal confusion. It sits in an awkward middle ground, ambitious in its parody but not quite disciplined enough to fully succeed.

Pretty stoked on having a misprint copy haha.

I googled “black dragon fighting society” looking for possible merch to buy my dad for Father’s Day and a song by my chemical romance of all bands pops up.

The song is pretty bad, but it does have the line: “better grab your soul from the fingers of death” and that’s a very clear reference to the most dangerous man alive