Podcast Update and Water Cooler: The Righteous Gemstones, Cruising, and More
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the May 7, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what we’ve been watching.
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Ben has an announcement to make about the show (check him out on Bluesky), met up with BJ and Harmony for dinner, went to Jazz at LACMA, visited Cloud Gate (aka The Bean), the Art Institute of Chicago, and saw a Chicago Cubs game.
- BJ went into the Criterion Mobile closet, saw her first pullquote on a billboard, and got a new movie tattoo
- What we’ve been Reading:
- BJ is reading The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben watched The Righteous Gemstones and The Rehearsal season 2.
- BJ watched Cruising, Blinded By the Light, The Righteous Gemstones
- What we’ve been Eating:
- Ben met up with Brad in Chicago to see a movie he can’t talk about yet, and ate at Pequods and Mr. Beef.
- BJ is SO JEALOUS BEN HAD PEQUODS. But in continuing her quest to eat gimmick food, she finally tried the Doritos branded vodka.
- What we’ve been Playing:
- BJ is playing Nintendo 64
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome aboard the Turkish Airlines podcast channel. |
| 0:07.2 | Are you ready for a new adventure? |
| 0:11.0 | Merhabah passengers, this is your captain speaking. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the Wideen Your World podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series. |
| 0:25.9 | Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. On today's |
| 0:31.1 | episode of the show, we are going to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about |
| 0:34.4 | what we've been doing, what we've been watching, what we've been reading, all of that jazz. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, |
| 0:41.0 | and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm editor, B.J. Colangelo. Hi, hi, hi. Yeah. All right, |
| 0:46.7 | BJ, I want to start this episode with some news about the podcast. So starting next week, we're going to be rebranding this show into Slash Film Weekly, |
| 0:56.0 | and our format is going to change. |
| 0:57.8 | So this Friday's episode, which we've already recorded, is going to be the last episode of |
| 1:01.8 | the daily version of the podcast. |
| 1:03.8 | Would I personally love to keep doing daily episodes of the show? |
| 1:07.3 | Yes. |
| 1:07.6 | But that's not a viable path forward for us right now. |
| 1:11.6 | So we're going to adapt, and we're going to try out the weekly format. I actually search for the show. Yes, but that's not a viable path forward for us right now. So we're going to adapt and we're going to try out the weekly format. I actually searched for the term movie news in the |
| 1:16.4 | Apple podcast app the other day. Our podcast was the first thing that came up, which was very |
| 1:21.9 | to me. Yeah, I thought that was really cool. So I think this revamp actually gives us an opportunity |
| 1:26.8 | to kind of get back to our roots |
| 1:29.1 | a little bit and lean more into serving that audience who's hungry for movie news and staying |
| 1:33.1 | more up to date on the biggest stories and stuff like that in Hollywood. |
| 1:36.3 | So we're going to transition to only doing the show once a week. |
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