Season 2, Episode 9: Kathryn Bigelow Takes Us to the "Trenches": 'The Hurt Locker' & 'ZDT'
This is mostly about us reacting to the films and their relevance, but we have a few notes. The Hurt Locker Release, Box Office, and...
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FGJG is Stef and Brendan
Stef Rubino (they/them) is a teacher, community organizer, student of abolition, and—perhaps, most importantly—a podcaster from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. They live in a little blue house 1.5 miles from the beach with their partner and their dog. Their (non-podcast) work has been featured on Autostraddle. Aside from here, you can find them on Twitter.
Brendan Walsh (he/him) is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently concussion fragment (elsewhere, 2022), winner of the 2020 elsewhere Prose Chapbook Contest. He has lived in Laos, South Korea, New England, and South Florida. He is an amateur strongman, teacher, wannabe grifter, sad boy, and most importantly, podcaster.
fatguyjackedguy
- Mar 22
- 14 min
Season 2, Episode 8: Let's Talk WMD's (What Michael Moore Documents): Fahrenheit 9/11
Part I: Preamble Brother, this feels wild to say but this month — March 20th, to be exact — is the 20th anniversary of the start of the...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Mar 22
- 13 min
Season 2, Episode 7: Spit in My Food and Call Me Stupid: The Mean Brit Chef Invasion
PREAMBLE There’s a certain kink that most Americans have. A certain psychosexual pathology that lives within us. We aren’t proud of it,...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Feb 17
- 17 min
Season 2, Episode 6: It's Guido Time! A Look Back at the Chaos & Beauty of MTV's "Jersey Shore"
Part 1: Preamble Well, brother, the CABS ARE HERE. The cabs are truly here. You know I can’t start talking about Jersey Shore without...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Feb 17
- 8 min
Season 2, Episode 5: Taking PEDs (Podcast Enhancing Drugs) To Talk 2008's "Bigger, Stronger, Faster"
Preamble: If there is one documentary from this era (2003-2013) that targets my logical brain and my lizard brain like a MISSILE, it’s...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Feb 17
- 9 min
Season 2, Episode 4: From Borat to Burgundy: A Guide to the Quoting Years
The Quoting Years refers to the stretch of time in the mid 90’s-late aughts (think 1995-2010) when popular movie and television quotes...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Feb 17
- 17 min
Season 2, Episode 3: "Madonna's 2 Kinky Kisses": The Girl-on-Girl VMAs Kiss That Rocked The World
Well, brother, it’s time to get gay, ok?? Let’s just situate ourselves here. It’s August 2003 and sophomore year of high school just...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Jan 18
- 12 min
Season 2, Episode 2: Examining 'The Massacre': 50 Cent's Tribute to His Own Invulnerability
PREAMBLE: What’s more mid-aughts than 50 Cent’s 2005 album, The Massacre? In 2003, 50 Cent’s album Get Rich or Die Trying became the...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Season 2, Episode 1: We're Entering the New Year's Rockin' Eve Time Warp
This is an intro episode to Season 2, where we explore the pop cultural and political phenomena of the decade between 2003-2013 from our...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Jan 12
- 5 min
Episode 45: All We Want for Christmas is Class Warfare: We Talk Anti-Capitalist Christmas Movies
For those of you that didn’t KNOW, our understanding of Christmas celebration is a combination of pagan traditions like the Scandinavian...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Dec 16, 2022
- 7 min
Episode 44: Declaring War on the "War on Christmas"
Preamble: The preamble for this episode isn’t quite as personal or as long as many of our other episodes. The truth is, I wanted to talk...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Dec 16, 2022
- 12 min
Episode 43: The Definitive Netflix Dating Show Power Rankings
You can support us get on this, folks. Make our holiday by giving us your money. Our patrons get weekly bonus episodes and our lifelong...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Dec 6, 2022
- 8 min
Episode 42: Sorry TikTok, Helen Keller is REAL
This is kind of in honor of Fat Guy, Jacked Guy’s new TikTok, which we created begrudgingly because apparently this is the mind-numbing...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Dec 6, 2022
- 9 min
Episode 41: Leaves Falling Have Nothing on These: Our Top 5 Fall Movies with Alex Steed
Stef's Top 5 Fall Films Far From Heaven (2002) Easily one of the best films ever made. In the history of filmmaking. Todd Haynes (of...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Dec 6, 2022
- 11 min
Episode 40: Where Have All the Lesbian Bars Gone?
FGJG Preamble If y’all didn’t already know, this is a queer and queer-adjacent owned podcast. For the month of October, we decided to...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Nov 1, 2022
- 10 min
Episode 39: Your Job Isn't Real: We Talk Bulls**t Jobs!
Preamble: We are indoctrinated into the Cult of Work before we know what a job is. As early as preschool (and probably before that, now),...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Nov 1, 2022
- 12 min
Episode 38: Everyone Loves to Feed Ghosts: "Halloween" Around the World
Brendan's Notes: Part I: It’s hard for me to call this all “Halloween” because I looked at the traditions of spirit worship and convening...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Oct 23, 2022
- 6 min
Episode 37: Just Two Brothers Pitching Horror Movie Ideas to Each Other
If you steal our ideas, we will SUE YOU TO OBLIVION!! Brendan's Horror Movie Pitches 1: Ink This is my B-horror film, but I think it’s...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Oct 23, 2022
- 2 min
Episode 36: We Watched Some Horror Films from 1979 So YOU Don't Have To!
Here are some LIVE notes from Brendan's watching experience. You can see, quite clearly, that his note-taking skills are now AWFUL. The...
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fatguyjackedguy
- Oct 23, 2022
- 9 min
Episode 35: Spiraling Into Personal Dread: We Break Down Our Top 5 "Favorite" Horror Films
Brendan’s Top Five Horror Movies: As a kid I LOVED to talk about horror movies with other kids on the bus. I would rank them according to...
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