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Episode #425: 'The Mastermind' with Myq Kaplan

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4.7932 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We’d slowly and repeatedly climb a rickety ladder for a Kelly Reichardt movie.

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0:00.0

so no more running i need to misbehave shit and your mother god damn i'm myself into a criminal institution

0:12.8

is it any wonder then that i've chosen not to learn the intricacies of an antiquated and idiotic system

0:18.3

i think not.

0:24.3

Hello and welcome to Maximum Film, episode 425.

0:27.2

I'm your host, Kevin Avery, and joining me as always.

0:31.2

He's a brilliant film critic and author and someone who would be on the cover of Christmas movie Aficionado magazine every month.

0:34.1

If that were a real magazine, Alonzo Doraldei, what's good?

0:37.8

Don't give me ideas, Kevin. I'm always looking to expand the empire.

0:42.5

What's good with me this week is Program 4, which is a website that Dave White turned

0:49.0

me on to and he said, it's the world the way you wish it looked. And it is the creation

0:54.0

of a woman I do not know named Rachel Lickman, who is a comedy writer,

0:59.4

and she's directed a lot of music videos.

1:02.0

And all I can tell you is that you go to Program 4 and you see like bumpers for a fictional TV station and opening credits sequences for television shows

1:14.3

and movies that never existed. And it's all done in the way of like what the sophisticated

1:20.8

future of adulthood looked to me when I was watching television at the age of six in the early 1970s.

1:29.2

They've really just captured the vibe of the whole thing.

1:33.3

It's random. It's gorgeous. It's funny and odd.

1:37.4

I don't even know how to describe it. And I think for people under a certain age, it's not

1:41.4

going to mean anything. But if you're a geriatric Gen X or like me,

1:46.3

get the to program for it will change your life. I'm intrigued. Is it videos? Is it images?

1:53.6

When you go to the main page of the website, there's like an hour-long program. Oh, it's a program.

1:59.2

Yes. But it's all these sort of like, it's as though you were

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