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Playful academic podcast that looks at movies and other cultural objects through the lens of 5 groovy themes: Pervs 'R Us, Beast & Sovereign, Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, Marx Grudge, and What Would Jesus Do?
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Recent Episodes
The Tush Push Episode
We tore open the homophobic response to the relatively new football play, the tush push.
Pluribus: Never...? Let the Dead Bury the Dead
...we Tossed our way into oblivion with the exciting new show Pluribus in this one.Hello audient!The new show Pluribus comes at us with all the niceties, trappings and plot pitfalls to be found in…
Technofeudalism and Enshittification: Paying Rent to our App Lords
We discuss two very sad yet important contemporary ideas about how enormous companies like Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon rule over us today. The first is Technofeudalism, a word coined by Yanis…
One Babel After Another: Walter Benjamin Finds Meme-ing
Dear, surviving, audient: how is it hanging?We\I sympathize.If you were looking to art as an answer, hoping for some revolutionary frameworks, or just plain ol' solace inside -- -- I'm…
Charlie Kirk: Can't We All Grieve Along
We wanted to talk about the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination. We ended up returning to a question Sagi asked in the last episode (Bowser Bones): how do we talk to people who mean well but…
Bowser Bones: The Fantasy of Biological Male Strength
Bowser bones is a phrase Andy and Jake came up with after playing way too much Mario Tennis. One afternoon, Jake chose to play as Bowser and easily defeated Andy, who was playing as Princess Peach.…
AI is still here: The Fragment on Machines, Progress, and the Tower of Babel (Part 2)
Well, we thought about AI again. This time Andy joined us. Jake, as promised, went Marx Grudge. He read from Marx's "Fragment on Machines," and listed the many lawsuits currently levied against "AI…
Vats for Brains: AI and Automated Intelligence (Part I)
Hello there audient,How's life?So, for this summer of lovely weather and lovelier news the Tossers bring you the first of a two-part series of pods dealing with A.I. It'll be fun and light, much like…
Pets: Our Imaginary Friends
As promised, our fun episode: pets! Did we end up keeping it G-rated and uncritical, no! Did we find a way to critique the adorable perfection of our feline and canine friends, yes! We also talked…
Fracking: A Priva(tiza)tion of Earth and Soul
Hello audient! (Jake says we have one more but I know it's still, as always, just you...)So we did an episode about fracking. Missing Jack on this one...We had a lot to say. But it was all pretty…
Tossers' Variety Show: Our Favorite Quotations
Today we shared 4 of our favorite quotations and discussed them on their own and in relation to each other. We quoted Dorothy Parker, Lex Luthor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bob Dylan, Marvel Comics,…
The University, or Teaching Real Fucking Shit
Greetings, audient!This.. was... a long one. We each have our own scar tissue from university encounters, passionate moments of transformation and inspiration experienced alongside sad encounters…
The Shit-Eating Grin: Defense Mechanism for a Modern "Man"
Jake can't stop cursing in this episode. We discuss the terribly obnoxious, punch-deserving, smirk that refuses to listen to the Other. Though prevalent especially in the world of Maga punditry,…
Sherlock Holmes: Limited Bandwidth (Inc.)
Audient!This episode imposes upon us (well Jake mostly) the horrors of shoddy writing and bad aesthetics. And yet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation seems to be very much alive. How is that? Why?We…
Nosferatu: Bringing the Finish Line Right To You
You gotta listen to it to believe it. Jake, Sagi, and Andy go Foucault, Nietzsche, Derrida, Lacan and Freud all over Nosferatu's Ass. There's demonic possessions, feminine jouissance, the Marquise de…
The Hustler with an Unconscious of Gold: Homage to David Lynch
Greetings, audient!David Lynch passed away, and Sagi insisted on embarrassing his memory and us by making a tribute pod.Of course an oeuvre analysis is not Tossers style, but we found a nice angle in…
Revenge of the Nerds: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley, Crypto Fascists and Other Sad Shit
Welcome to a sad episode about the sad state of our world. If you thought the nerds taking over for the jocks was a sign of liberation, think again. The spiteful nature of the nerds knows no limits…
Late Stage NBA...
Hello, audient,We are discussing the NBA's crisis of viewership these days, how to analyze it, where to approach it from, who to blame...Jake takes the side of the NBA "worker"; a late-stage…
24: Jack Bauer's Beastly Christian Sovereignty in the State of Emergency
Sagi and Jake take on the toxic political masculinity of Jack Bauer on their own. They speak about how the State of Emergency places Jack in a position outside the law, both beast (criminal) and…
Middle Age, and Middle Ages: The Tossers' 50th Episode, and Trump's Re-election
Dear, stubborn, listener,Are you still there?For our weirdly unlikely 50th Episode -- mine and Jake's Gold Anniversary or something(?) -- we went populist. Donald Trump's re-election is now fact, but…
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5 Star Tossers has published 69 episodes since October 2021, covering topics in Arts.
5 Star Tossers is currently active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 1h 35m.
