Best Phillip Rood Podcasts (2026)

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Let's Talk About Nightmares 58:55

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Austin and Phil look back on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. They rank the movies and talk about their favorites and least favorite moments of the series.

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Rick Whistler's New Podcast 1:11:47

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Rick Whistler and Jarrod Smith make a rare appearance as themselves... until they realize they need to assume their former roles as Phil and Austin Rood if they're going to survive another podcast as they talk about Wes Craven's New Nightmare

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Freddy's Dead: The Final Podcast 1:01:31

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Austin and Phil discuss the nightmare that is the 1991 movie Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

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Nightmare on 34th Street 5: The Pod Child 1:06:53

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Austin and Phil talk about 1989's Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

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Nightmare on 34th Street 4: The Dream Caster 59:57

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Aus and Phil talk about 1988's Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

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Nightmare on 34th Street 3: Pod Warriors 57:38

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Aus and Phil discuss the 3rd in the series, 1987's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

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Nightmare on 34th Street 2: Podcast Revenge 1:05:59

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Nightmare on 34th Street 1:06:49

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Welcome to Nightmare on 34th Street... It's just like The Picture Show, but Aus and Phil are reviewing all of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies starting with the original Wes Craven film, which we cover in this episode.

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5 Year Anniversary- Let's Live Forever... Again (The Old Guard 2) 1:40:42

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The 100 year exile is cut short this week as Austin and Phil re-team to take on one of the ancient evils of podcasting: An Anniversary Episode. The guys take on this challenge by watching a sequel to one of the earliest movies they covered and sat down for the 2025 Netflix-original The Old Guard 2. They discuss the things they liked about this entr…

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Amen-Midnight Mass Ep7 1:15:14

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The Roods talk about the final episode of Midnight Mass and break down its themes of toxic religion and addiction, antiheroes, beautiful deaths, and so much more. Thank you for spending your Halloween season with us as we enjoyed discussing this masterpiece of a series ⁠⁠⁠Phil Rood Art⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Who Is On First podcast⁠⁠ ⁠[email protected]…

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The Sixth Podcast In Ordinary Time-Midnight Mass Ep6 1:01:02

1y ago1:01:02

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Apologies are in order as our audio is not up to par this episode. We (and by "we", I mean "Phil) did not realize that the mic settings were wrong and the audio was only picked up by Phil's laptop mic. The audio is a little tough to hear and for that, I (Phil) am very sorry. I will try to dot the T's and cross the I's better in the future. I hope d…

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The Fifth Podcast In Ordinary Time-Midnight Mass Ep5 1:11:55

1y ago1:11:55

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The Roods discuss The Gospel According to Riley, Henry Thomas, Biblical parallels, religious fanatics, and so much more as they break down the 5th episode of Midnight Mass: "Gospel" ⁠⁠Phil Rood Art⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Who Is On First podcast⁠ CALL TO ACTION: Email us with movies from your childhood that no one outside of your age group remembers or watched that yo…

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The Fourth Podcast In Ordinary Time-Midnight Mass Ep4 1:06:04

1y ago1:06:04

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This week the guys talk about loss, murder, religious fanaticism, rules for vampires, afterlife monologues and a whole lot more as they break down Midnight Mass Episode 4: Lamentations ⁠Phil Rood Art⁠ ⁠Who Is On First podcast

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The Third Podcast In Ordinary Time-Midnight Mass Ep3 59:27

1+ y ago59:27

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The Roods return to Midnight Mass and go through the Stations of the Cross, go to Confession, and complain about Bev... Bev is the WORST! Phil Rood Art Who Is On First podcast

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112-The Second Podcast In Ordinary Time (Midnight Mass Ep2) 53:16

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The Roods continue on with their episode by episode breakdown of the Mike Flanagan masterpiece Midnight Mass This week the guys are talking about exposition, higher powers in sobriety, cinematography, and Bev... ohhh how we love to hate Bev... Who Is On First Phil Rood Art

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111-The First Podcast in Ordinary Time (Midnight Mass Ep 1) 1:07:16

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The Roods return from hiatus for the Halloween season by jumping into Mike Flanagan's 2021 masterpiece Midnight Mass. The guys are breaking down the show episode by episode so please watch along with us as we share our thoughts on this unique limited series. Who Is On First Phil's Blog Child Star Achewillow Book…

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TPS Holiday Special-Tokyo Godfathers 1:03:42

2y ago1:03:42

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Aus and Phil go dumpster diving for Christmas gifts and came up with something totally unexpected: A movie called Tokyo Godfathers The guys talk about flawed characters, redemption, A Christmas Carol, and found family. Listen to hear why they champion this movie becoming a part of your family's holiday movie rotation! Thanks to Nicole Davis for rec…

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Phil Goes To Camp- Last Day of Camp 14:59

2y ago14:59

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Phil reviews the Friday the 13th series and how it has permanently changed his psyche

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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th(2009) 20:28

2y ago20:28

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Phil watches the Friday the 13th remake tries to separate the greatness of Derek Mears from the perverted madness of the Michael Bay-iverse

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Phil Goes to Camp-Freddy vs Jason 13:27

2y ago13:27

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It's just like that time Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth went on tour together because they were mad at Eddie Van Halen but they ended up hating each other even more #TeamHagar #TeamJason

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Phil Goes to Camp-Jason X 14:19

2y ago14:19

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Phil watches Jason murder Canadian... scientists(?) in... space because of course he does...

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112-Let's Review Season 7 1:02:31

2y ago1:02:31

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Leo, the podcast's producer, shows up to give some on-air pointers at how the show can improve and the guys immediately disregard them and keep Phil on the show... Also, Aus and Phil look back on the movies they reviewed this season... the good, the bad, the boring, the hidden gems, and the Kings... EMAIL THE SHOW: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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Phil Goes To Camp-Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday 21:13

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Patterns are broken, up is down, left is right, monsters have families and hell is for deformed children who drowned at camp... Phil watches Jason Goes To Hell

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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan 13:52

2y ago13:52

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Phil takes a luxury cruise from his summer camp to Times Square and watches Friday the 13th Part VIII

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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood 8:15

2y ago8:15

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Phil wishes his psychic powers had told him to avoid this movie.

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111-Let's Return to Derry (It Chapter Two) 1:28:10

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Aus and Phil return to their Maine hometown to finish what they started a long time ago: Season 7 of their podcast. To do this, they watched 2019's It: Chapter Two and discuss how it works as a continuation of Chapter One, queerbaiting, high concept cosmic horror, and a million side-track conversations. Austin's Shout Out:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Doctor Who vs Women⁠…

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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives 9:24

2y ago9:24

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Phil returns to the camp where it all began so he can talk about the 6th movie in the franchise and hopefully his nightmares can finally stop...

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Phil Goes To Camp- Friday the 13th (Part V): A New Beginning 14:20

2y ago14:20

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Phil discusses Friday the 13th (Part V): A New Beginning

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Phil Goes To Camp-Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter 12:56

2y ago12:56

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Phil continues commenting on the Friday the 13th movies and their ever-evolving naming convention with Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

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Phil Goes to Camp-Friday the 13th Part III 9:03

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Phil heads to the lake to get high and have sex, but ends up in a nightmare scenario instead. Listen to this mini-episode as Phil shares his thoughts about Friday the 13th Part III

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110-Let's Float (It Chapter 1) 1:25:42

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Austin and Phil go into the sewers of their city to try to find out what happened to their missing podcast episode. While down there, they ran across a copy of 2017's It Chapter One and decided to give it a watch. The guys talk about psychotic bullies (again), the amazing cast of kid actors, the cycles of storytelling in this film, and how the film…

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The Walking Dead: Land of the Croissants (Austin's Thoughts) 14:34

2y ago14:34

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Austin here, and after watching TWD: Dead City and now TWD: Daryl Dixon I had a lot of thoughts on the state of this franchise as a whole and where it's headed. Got on the mic by myself to talk to you guys about it. Let me know what you think about The Walking Dead and it's spinoffs at our email [email protected]…

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109-Let's Stand Up For Ourselves (The Black Phone) 1:39:33

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This week, the guys take a break from their brutal playground fist fights against psychotic bullies to watch the horror movie The Black Phone. The guys talk about period pieces and nostalgia, non-Shining characters who shine, Ethan Hawke, Tom Savini, and the hope that mid-budget movies like this give us. Austin's Shout Out:⁠ ⁠The Hottest and Coldes…

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108-Let's Shine On (Doctor Sleep) 1:34:46

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Looking to reset after last week's descent into madness with The Shining Phil and Austin (and Christy) sat down this week to watch the 2019 sequel Doctor Sleep. Aus and Phil discuss the amazing casting of this movie, the themes of redemption and surviving trauma, breaking the cycle, and Rose the Hat; while Christy kicks off the episode with her tho…

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107-Let's Listen to Tony Next Time (The Shining) 1:26:40

2+ y ago1:26:40

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In search of a quiet place to record podcasts, Austin and Phil have taken jobs as winter caretakers at a haunted ski lodge where they also have access to some kick ass DVDs, so they decided to watch Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining. The guys discuss abuse, ghost time travel, non-erotic sexuality, moon landing conspiracies, and Scatm…

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106-Let's Have a Persecution Complex(Hacksaw Ridge) 1:15:28

2+ y ago1:15:28

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This week, Aus and Phil walk into war with nothing but their podcast mic to protect them, but they take a break to watch Mel Gibson's 2016 return to the director's chair: Hacksaw Ridge. The guys talk about glorifying war in film, the myth of Christian persecution in America, and what would have made this movie better. Austin's Shout Out:⁠ ⁠Bill Had…

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105-Let's Start Dating Our Adversaries(Out of Sight) 1:02:24

2+ y ago1:02:24

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This week the guys broke out of podcast jail and decided to lay low in scenic Detroit. While waiting for their last big score, they watched the 1998 film Out of Sight. Phil fanboys over Elmore Leonard and spiritual metaphors while Austin tries to figure out the mindset of a career criminal and place himself in the 1990s to imagine a time when time …

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104-Let's Commit White Collar Crimes (Emily the Criminal) 1:05:22

2+ y ago1:05:22

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This week Aus and Phil are telling terrible bossess to f@$k right off while swiping other people's credit cards and tasing the crap out of craigslist buyers... also, they watched Emily the Criminal. The guys take hard stances against typecasting Aubrey Plaza, predatory corporate internships, art schools, and using guns to commit crimes. Also, Phil …

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103-Let's Deal With Shifting Trends In Entertainment By Forming Genuine Friendships With Unlikely People (The Illusionist) 1:05:49

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This week Aus and Phil travel to faraway lands in hopes of reviving their podcast careers with the help of their young optimistic (and kind of naive) new producer. They also watched the film The Illusionist... no, not that one. They watched the 2010 animated French film and discussed its themes of odd but sweet relationship dynamics, changing trend…

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102-Let's Close Down the Beaches (Jaws) 1:03:24

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This week Austin and Phil go fishing on a boat that, in all honesty, could probably stand to be a little bigger... they also watch Steven Spielberg's 1975 feature debut Jaws. The guys talk about their rich histories with this classic, the look and vibe of 70s movies, PTSD, and differences from the novel. Austin's Shout Out:⁠ ⁠8eyes⁠ Phil's Shout Ou…

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101-Let's Get A Dog (101 Dalmations) 1:01:13

2+ y ago1:01:13

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Austin and Phil uncover the evils of the fur industry and puppy mills by watching the Disney animated classic One Hundred and One Dalmations. They talk about eras of Disney movies, pioneering art techniques, classic design, and the Simpsons... because we love the Simpsons. Austin's Shout Out:⁠ Jaime French-Water Tok Phil's Shout Out: Paul Reubens's…

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100-Let's Talk About Fight Club Again (Fight Club) 1:21:06

2+ y ago1:21:06

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The guys kick off their 7th season of the show with a milestone episode, Number 100! To celebrate, they go back to their roots to re-examine their very first movie 1999's Fight Club. They talk about angry incels, media literacy, satire, Jared Leto, and how their opinions may have shifted on this and other movies they've covered on the show. Plus, P…

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99-Let's Celebrate 3 Years (3rd Anniversary, What We've Been Watching, Across the Spider-Verse) 1:14:13

2+ y ago1:14:13

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Aus and Phil are on summer vacation between seasons, but they jumped on the mic to recognize their 3rd Anniversary as a podcast! They discuss some of the highlights of what they've been watching this summer, culminating with a discussion of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", it's influence on the animation landscape, legacy characters reimagine…

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Phil and David Talk About Barry: Season 4 Part 2 1:08:41

2+ y ago1:08:41

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David Luzader and Phil Rood take a look at the final episodes of HBO's Barry, discussing the fate of the characters, the ending, what it all meant, and the series as a whole.

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Phil and David Talk About Barry Season4-Part 1 1:00:05

2+ y ago1:00:05

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David Luzader and Phil Rood return to talk about one of their favorite shows, HBO's dark comedy Barry. They're discussing the first half of the final season on this episode.

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98-Let's Review Double Features (S6 Review) 46:10

2+ y ago46:10

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This week, Phil and Austin look back on the individual movies and double features they watched over Season 6. They talk about their favorites, what didn't hit home with them as much, what kept resonating with them after they'd watched them, and some themes and topics that unintentionally ran through most of the season. EMAIL THE SHOW: ⁠austinandphi…

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97-Let's Cause A Trainwreck (Super 8) 1:22:33

2+ y ago1:22:33

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This week the Austin and Phil have no show notes due to the writers' strike (on which we are fully in support of the WGA) Austin's Shout Out:⁠ The Rise and Fall of Replika-Sarah Z Phil's Shout Out: ⁠Livestream For the Cure VII EMAIL THE SHOW: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Austin on Letterboxd- ⁠austinnrood⁠ Phil on Letterboxd- ⁠philrood⁠…

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96-Let's Work With Animals (Nope) 1:43:52

2+ y ago1:43:52

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This week, the guys bring the cats into the studio and learn the hard lessons about show business animals that they should have taken from Jordan Peele's 2022 film Nope. The guys and cats break down the movie by discussing trauma, ethics of working with animals, monster design, brilliant cinematography, and the brilliance that is Keke Palmer. The I…

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95-Let's Meet the Family (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) 1:30:59

2+ y ago1:30:59

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This week the guys hired stunt doubles to give their hot takes on the podcast then sat down to watch 2019's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Phil and Aus break down the movie by discussing dirty hippie cults, Tarantino self-indulgence, bad takes, racism in Hollywood, Spaghetti Westerns, historical context, and feet. Plus, a book recommendation from f…

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94-Let's Make Talkies (Babylon) 1:38:04

2+ y ago1:38:04

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TRIGGER WARNING- this week's conversation contains discussion of suicide as depicted in the film Babylon This week Aus and Phil return from their hiatus to explore the wild world of early Hollywood by breaking down 2022's Babylon. The guys talk about changing industries, depravity and the subcultures that make room for it, art for the masses, and e…