In this episode we were supposed to talk about Twenty Bucks in relationship with Magnolia but... uh... something happened?

This week we shove it up ya nose with a badass convo about Putney Swope, Big Bang Theory, comedy, improv, what's funny, what's not, Curb Your Enthusiasm, jokes per minute milage, and a whole lot of other shit.

In the first episode of SEASON TWO -- we discuss The Color of Money as an inspirational film for Hard Eight. Season Two will be comprised of a bunch of episodes where we talk about movies that don't have anything to do with PTA and show you how they totally do -- and how PTA ripped them off in charming or sloppy ways.

In this very lo-fi episode, we break through the quarantine restrictions to talk about all of PTA's music videos and short films, Pootie Tang, Quentin Tarantino again, cursed VHS tapes, and a bunch of other stuff.

In this episode, we stitch together our differences of opinion and talk about mushrooms, the sexual generosity of Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day Lewis, Mario Tennis, Kim & Kanye, Twilight, cinematography, Mark Bridges, and a whole bunch of other patterns. PLUS: a wonderful reading of the novelization of Phantom Thread by kkuurrtt.

Seven episodes deep into this dream, we discuss Mansonoid conspiracies, cameo appearances, bad jokes, doing dope, Thomas Pynchon, Gordita Beach, the confusion between dream and reality, Academy Awards, vomit, farts, and like, uh, a lot of other stuff that... wait... what was I saying?

In our sixth episode, we tumble down the time hole and process such topics as 65mm film, the philosophy of The Cause, the ocean, scratch and sniff pubic hair, characters who change, third act problems, and more -- including a phone call to the Church of Scientology.

In this episode we drill to rich conversations involving cribbing, Greenwood's score, pretentiousness, megalomania, the Priceline Negotiator, edging, how Tom's grown as a man, how much Kurt hates this movie, and a whole ocean of oil underneath our feet and no one can get at it but...us?

In this episode we come to fisticuffs over our lackluster attitudes, The Joker, blackmail, sex hotlines, working at Hollywood Video, bad jokes, Uncut Gems, lens flares, love, and a whole slew of other junk––most not PTA related.

In the third episode, we confine ourselves to the characters and narrative of Magnolia. We discuss privileged men, the hope within the story, Felicity Huffman's arrest, dog piss, cancer, Ernie Anderson, and a whole bunch of other shit.