Podcasts by P.U.L.C.H.

Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins from 2022-10-21T06:54:49

Commercially successful and critically lauded, the P.U.L.C.H. Watchmen episode has been called "the moment podcasting grew up." The award-winning episode sees hosts Nic "Without the K" Riley and...

Donations Update from 2022-08-27T19:40:14

While the show will go on, we're pausing donations for now and sending our cash to amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Check them out at https://www.amfar.org. 

The Wire from 2022-08-27T19:19:34

Seasoned media detectives Joyce and Nic return to investigate David Simon's hit police drama The Wire. They gather evidence and build their case against the leader of the prestige TV ga...

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk from 2022-03-11T21:55:01

Exactly as the stars predicted, Joyce and Nic return to chat about the Polish novel that shared the 2019 Nobel prize. Joyce entertains a new job offer and reads some Barth. Nic the Greek goes 2/...

Ficciones by Jorges Luis Borges (Pt. 2) from 2022-02-13T14:13:52

In a classic episode recorded just one month ago, we finish our series on Borges. DC writes a new one and Houellebecq threatens to do the same. Nic fails to apply to graduate school. Joyce trave...

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Pt. 1) from 2021-09-14T21:11:46

P.U.L.C.H. is back. Listen, then listen again.

Me Too (Ya Tozhe Khochu) dir. Alexei Balabanov (2012) from 2021-07-02T06:18:11

We discuss Alexei Balabanov's last film, Me Too, in which some Russian guys drink and drive on their quest for happiness. Nic outdoes himself for malapropisms. Joyce's company institute...

Staying Creative While Working a Job from 2021-03-25T23:41:22

We didn't read nothin' for this episode. Instead, we chat about strategies to stay creative and engaged with art while working a full-time job that pays your way and corrodes your soul. Other to...

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker (with Robin Parrish) from 2021-02-26T01:03:59

Cartoonist and consultant Robin Parrish drops by to chat with the P.U.L.C.H. pals about Nicholson Baker's brief stream-of-consciousness novel The Mezzanine, but they derail the conversation to d...

Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia from 2021-02-09T00:49:23

Your wayward hosts return from their hiatus to discuss Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, the worst book we've ever read about cultural criticism. Curbstomp anyone who tells you to read it. Irred...

P.U.L.C.H. is going on hiatus from 2020-12-07T02:45:24

P.U.L.C.H. is going on hiatus until February 2021 so Nic can focus on his grad school applications. He's sure going to miss chatting with all you wild and crazy P.U.L.C.H.heads out there in radi...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera from 2020-11-26T03:29:17

In our first guest episode, the great Leo Delmar joins us from Florida to discuss The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which he's read thirty-two times. Other topics include a young Nic's...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos from 2020-10-15T00:30:03

My dearest audience,

Never would I venture to suggest that your esteemed virtue is lacking in its expansive scope, and so I must naturally assume you are unaware of the great injury you d...

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh from 2020-09-23T18:53:23

We read A Handful of Dust. The audio quality is bad again because Windows is terrible. Joyce read some Kafka. Nic sings a bit of Memory from Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit musical Listen

Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq from 2020-09-16T02:32:59

America calling, America calling. Your fearless hosts delve into Michel Houellebecq's latest provocation, 2019's Serotonin. What will they think? What will they say? Only by pressing th...

Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz from 2020-09-10T02:47:36

The PULCH team touch bases to network and brainstorm a content strategy raising awareness around Witold Gombrowicz's 1965 novel Cosmos. Nic gets a new microphone, and a young British bo...

The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert from 2020-07-18T18:10:13

Gustave Flaubert spent his whole life writing The Temptation of St. Anthony, published finally in 1874. The P.U.L.C.H. hosts discuss it and many other topics to delight and surprise you...

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans from 2020-07-07T04:22:53

Joyce discusses a novel about an isolated, perfume-obsessed aesthete with an isolated, perfume-obsessed aesthete. Neither of them pronounce the French correctly.

The Looking Glass War by John le Carré from 2020-06-29T03:03:40

Our friend in England converses with the short fellow about John le Carré's satirical spy thriller The Looking Glass War. Other topics include the boozy life of Malcom Lowry, the regret...

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa from 2020-06-26T16:23:21

In the fourth P.U.L.C.H. episode, Nic and Joyce discourse on cartoons, Hollywood pedophiles, and Giuseppe di Lampedusa's 1958 novel "The Leopard."

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover from 2020-06-25T18:01:35

In this first excursion into the world of cinema, your hosts discuss Peter Greenaway's 1989 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin from 2020-06-25T17:58:28

Despite audio issues, the P.U.L.C.H.ers hold a lively discussion about survivalist llamas, Joseph Goebbels's novel, and Ursula Le Guin's 1969 "The Left Hand of Darkness," a germinal tale of andr...