Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender Edition of Muckray Podcast. I'm J.J. Sexton. I'm here with my dear friend, Nick Houseman. It is Black Friday, November 28th. We're recording this late because of the Thanksgiving holiday. How are you, bud? How was your Thanksgiving?

My Thanksgiving was wonderful. It was so nice to be with people and, you know, really just have good food and good wine. And then I went to sleep early and woke up early. You know, everything is going swimmingly.

You're living the dream. Yeah. I mean, the weather here is, is beautiful. Okay. We're back to, we're back to normal Californian standards.

I got, yeah, I got to tell you. I mean, you know, nothing like being outside early this morning and just

enjoying the sunshine. So I'm sorry that anyone else is having the struggle with some,

some terrible weather, but, you know, come out here. I'm cold as hell. Is it that cold where

you are? It's cold. Wow. I'm cold. And that's okay. I like it cold.

I'm happy for the winters to be getting here. I'll say that. It's manly. It's something. It is

certainly something. Well, we are recording this again on Friday. Apologies for the late posting,

but hopefully you will forgive us because we have a really, really good

movie to talk about. And what we usually do is that we will pick a movie, we'll watch it,

we'll talk about both the filmmaking aspects, the writing of it, but also the political

themes of all of it. And the movie that we're talking about today is this year's

release from Paul Thomas Anderson called One Battle After Another. We're going to be dissecting not

just the movie as a whole, but there is so much to talk about here when it comes to

revolutionary politics, far right politics and philosophy, just secret societies, revolutionary violence, all kinds of things.

This is a ripe movie to discuss.

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Nick, one battle after another is Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie.

It is a loose adaptation of the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pinchin.

This is his second adaptation of a Pinchon novel after Inherent Vice.

Inherent Vice was a much more true adaptation.

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