Podcasts by Welcome To The Party Pal: The Mind-Bending Film & Television Podcast You Didnt Know You Needed!
Welcome to the Party Pal is the mind-bending film and television podcast you didn’t know you needed. Hosted by Mitch Lucas (filmmaker) and Michael Shields (writer/editor), WTTPP is a celebration of the art of cinema and filmmaking, where movies and television shows are meticulously dissected and analyzed to evaluate their grandeur (or, conversely when necessary, lament their shortcomings). Guests will include the filmmakers and industry insiders that craft the works of art that inhabit the current zeitgeist. All spoilers, all the time...listeners be warned!
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Episode 91: Ozark Season 4, Part 1 from 2022-02-10T17:26:35
This episode of Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates the fourth season of Ozark, the American crime drama television series created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams for Netflix. The series...
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Episode 90: Station Eleven, Part Two from 2022-01-29T11:50:02
In this episode, Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates — once again — Station Eleven, the post-apocalyptic fiction limited series created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 nove...
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Episode 89: Station Eleven, Part One from 2022-01-22T12:46:44
In this episode, Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates Station Eleven, the post-apocalyptic fiction limited series created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same name b...
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Episode 88: They All Laughed from 2022-01-18T09:20:25
Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates the life and career of famed director Peter Bogdanovich through an examination of one of his most influential films, They All Laughed. They All L...
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Episode 87: Succession, Season 3 (Episodes 6 - 9) from 2021-12-16T11:20:30
Join in as Welcome To The Party Pal meticulously dissects the final four episodes of Season 3 of HBO’s smash hit comedy-drama Succession. Created by Jesse Armstrong, the series centers ...
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Episode 86: Succession, Season 3 (Episodes 1 - 5) from 2021-11-18T12:20
Welcome To The Party Pal meticulously dissects the first five episode of HBO's smash hit comedy-drama Succession. Created by Jesse Armstrong, the series centers on the Roy family, the d...
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Episode 85: The Harder They Fall from 2021-11-15T09:20
Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates the 2021 Revisionist Western film The Harder The Fall, directed by Jeymes Samuel, who co-wrote the screenplay with Boaz Yakin. The film stars&...
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Episode 84: Ted Lasso, Season Two from 2021-10-14T04:00
Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates the second season of Ted Lasso, the American sports comedy-drama streaming television series developed by Jason Sudeikis, B...
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Episode 83: Squid Game from 2021-10-07T12:00
Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates the South Korean survival drama television series streaming on Netflix, Squid Game. Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, it stars&nbs...
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Episode : The White Lotus from 2021-08-30T04:00
Welcome To The Party Pal sets its sights on The Aloha State in an episode that celebrates the first season of The White Lotus, the American satirical comedy-drama series created, written, and direc...
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Episode 82: The White Lotus from 2021-08-30T04:00
Welcome To The Party Pal sets its sights on The Aloha State in an episode that celebrates the first season of The White Lotus, the American satirical comedy-drama series created, written, ...
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Episode 81: Loki from 2021-08-09T04:00
This episode of Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates Loki, the television series created by Michael Waldron for Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the charac...
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Episode 80: A Richard Donner Tribute from 2021-07-21T15:18:36
This episode of Welcome To The Party Pal celebrates the life and career of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and consistent directors, Richard Donner. Donner began his career as a television directo...
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Episode : The Deer Hunter from 2021-06-03T06:20
This episode of Welcome To The Party Pal thoroughly explores the ins and outs of the 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter. This enthralling, ...
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Episode 79: The Deer Hunter from 2021-06-03T06:20
This episode of Welcome To The Party Pal thoroughly explores the ins and outs of the 1978 American epic Listen
Episode 78: Yasuke from 2021-05-28T08:20
Welcome To The Party Pal delves into Yasuke, the Japanese-American original anime series loosely based on the historical figure of the same name, an African warrio...
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Episode 77: The Serpent from 2021-05-21T09:20
Welcome To The Party Pal casts its gaze towards Bangkok, Thailand in an episode that explores The Serpent, a British crime drama serial developed by Mammoth S...
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Episode 76: Rollerball from 2021-04-26T09:20
This episode of Welcome To The Party Pal thoroughly explores the 1975 science fiction sports film Rollerball, directed and produced by Norman Jewison. Rollerball stars James Caan,...
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Episode 75: Cape Fear from 2021-04-01T12:56:59
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal hosts Michael Shields and Christian Niedan explore 1962's and 1991's Cape Fear, the two film adaptations of John D. MacDonald's 1957 psychologic...
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Episode 74: Alice In Borderland from 2021-03-22T08:20
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal host Michael Shields, with the help of author and film & television enthusiast Douglas Grant*, explores the Japanese thriller series Alic...
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Episode 73: Nomadland from 2021-03-01T09:20
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Michael Shiels and Mitch Lucas delve deeply into one of the best films released in 2021, the American drama film Nomadland. Set amid the ...
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Episode 73: Last Action Hero from 2021-02-08T09:20
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, film historian and host Christian Niedan, with the help of editor and culture journalist Dante A. Ciampaglia, explore the fascinating particulars o...
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Episode 71: The Film Adaptations of Edward Bunker from 2021-02-02T08:20
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal hosts Michael Shields and Christian Niedan celebrate the contributions to cinema by Edward Bunker. Bunker was an author of crime fiction, a screenwr...
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Episode 70: The Mandalorian Season 2 from 2021-01-19T08:20
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal hosts Michael Shields and Mitch Lucas commemorate the second season of the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian which stars&...
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Episode 69: Ted Lasso from 2021-01-14T09:20
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields, with the help of film/television enthusiast and podcaster Jonathan Hart, celebrates Ted Lasso, the comedy series devel...
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Episode 68: Sweet Smell of Success from 2021-01-08T00:43:41
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, film historian and host Christian Niedan, with the help of editor and culture journalist Dante A. Ciampaglia, celebrate the 1957 cult classic
Episode 67: A Holiday Movie Celebration from 2020-12-17T07:40
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields, with the help of the podcaster behind the Listen
Episode 66: A Face In The Crowd from 2020-12-04T07:40:47
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields — with the help of actor / comedian / writer / director and host of the podcast Listen
Episode 65: Raised By Wolves from 2020-11-14T07:40
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Michael Shields and Chris Thompson examine Raised By Wolves, the science fiction drama television series created by Aaron ...
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Episode 64: Miranda July's Kajillionaire from 2020-10-29T06:40:21
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields, along with film historian Christian Niedan, examines the recently released film Kajillionaire, from acclaimed writer/dire...
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Episode 63: 1980's Horror Films, Part Two from 2020-10-23T06:40:24
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Michael Shields and Mitch Lucas conclude a two part exploration of, and an ode to, 1980’s horror films. In what was a truly game-changing decade, ...
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Episode 62: 1980's Horror Films, Part One from 2020-10-16T06:40:59
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Michael Shields and Mitch Lucas commence a two part exploration of, and an ode to, 1980’s horror films. In what was a truly game-changing decade, ...
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Episode 61: An Honest Liar / F For Fake from 2020-09-17T06:40:21
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal host Michael Shields, with the help of film historian Christian Niedan, delves into the nature of truth, and of art, and of the fine line that exists bet...
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Episode 60: John Was Trying To Contact Aliens from 2020-09-12T05:50:19
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields, along with the help of podcaster ( Listen
Episode 59: Perry Mason from 2020-09-03T15:14:05
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Michael Shields and Justin Wells focus their aim at the period drama television show Perry Mason, based on the character of the same name...
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Episode 58: Coin Catcher from 2020-08-22T15:10:42
In this episode Welcome To The Party Pal focuses its gaze on a new short film written and directed by one of the hosts of the podcast, Mitch Lucas, That film, Coin Catcher, shot entirel...
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Episode 57: Most Dangerous Game from 2020-08-06T10:49:40
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields, with the help of film historian Christian Niedan, explore the numerous adaptations of Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dang...
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Episode 56: The 400 Blows, Breathless, and The French New Wave from 2020-07-30T20:52:53
In an episode that acts as an introduction to one of the most exciting and influential periods of cinematic history, Welcome To The Party Pal hosts Mitch Lucas and Michael Shields ...
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Episode 55: Fellini's 8 1/2 from 2020-07-20T12:27:42
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Mitch Lucas and Michael Shields explore the 1963 Italian surrealist comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, ...
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Episode 54: Da Five Bloods from 2020-07-07T13:16:52
In this episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, host Michael Shields, with the help of film historian and writer Christina Niedan, explores the latest release from prolific filmmaker Spike Lee entitle...
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Episode 53: The Leftovers, Season Three from 2020-06-30T13:11:42
In the third and final installment of a three-part series breaking down the meticulously crafted and thought-provoking HBO series The Leftovers, hosts Chris Thompson and Michael Shields se...
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Episode 52: The Leftovers, Season Two from 2020-06-10T10:30
In the second installment of a three part series breaking down the meticulously crafted and thought provoking HBO series The Leftovers, hosts Chris Thompson and Michael Shields seek to int...
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Episode 51: The Leftovers, Season One from 2020-05-15T15:15:46
In the first of a three part series breaking down the meticulously crafted and thought provoking HBO series The Leftovers, hosts Chris Thompson and Michael Shields seek to interpret one of...
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Episode 50: A Yorgos Lanthimos Retrospective from 2020-05-01T16:50:21
In this latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Mitch Lucas and Michael Shields celebrate the eccentric, provocative, and and thought-provoking works of famed Greek film and stage di...
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Episode 49: Ozark, Season 3 from 2020-04-24T13:10:16
Welcome To the Party Pal meticulously explores the ins-and-outs of Nexflix’s fascinating money-laundering drama Ozark, the crime drama series created by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams star...
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Episode 48: The Tiger King Episode from 2020-04-21T11:30
Welcome To the Party Pal meticulously explores the breakout hit Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, the true crime documentary miniseries about the life of zookeepe...
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Episode 47: Star Trek : Picard from 2020-04-10T17:11:54
Welcome To the Party Pal meticulously explores the in-and-outs of a compelling new addition to the Star Trek franchise — Star Trek: Picard. Picard is a web/television ...
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Episode 46: Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10 from 2020-03-30T10:00:02
In this episode, hosts Michael Shields and Justin Wells celebrate the tenth season of the HBO comedy television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, created by and starring Larry David&nbs...
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Episode 45: The 1917 Episode from 2020-03-26T12:10:07
Even though the menacing year that is 2020 is in full swing, Welcome To The Party Pal takes a look back at one of 2019's most acclaimed and captivating films, 1917. 1917&n...
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Episode 44: An Ian McKellen Tribute from 2020-03-19T16:49:05
Ian Mckellen is a legend of stage and cinema. He has incredibly starred in over four hundred plays and films and he is that rare character actor that awes in each and every perf...
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Episode 43: The Women of Action from 2020-02-24T13:00:13
Welcome To The Party Pal invites you to join in on an in-depth look at an exciting mixture of Hollywood filmmakers on the eve of what appears to be a golden age for female action directors. In...
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Episode 42: Parasite from 2020-02-13T11:10:21
Welcome To The Party Pal (Osiris Media) invites you to join in on a deconstruction / celebration of the most celeb...
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Episode 41: The 92nd Academy Awards from 2020-02-12T12:00
Welcome To The Party Pal (Osiris Media) proudly presents a celebration of the the year in cinema 2019 with an epis...
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Episode 40: Uncut Gems from 2020-01-16T19:57:07
Welcome To The Party invites you to a deconstruction / celebration of the most stressful and manic film of 2019, Uncut Gems. Uncut Gems is the 2019 American crime&n...
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Episode 39: The Mandalorian / The Rise of Skywalker from 2020-01-09T05:20
Welcome To The Party Pal journeys to a galaxy far, far away in an episode dedicated to the gift that keeps giving that is Star Wars. In an dual-focused episode, the most recent offerings from the J...
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Episode 38: Watchmen from 2019-12-17T05:20
Welcome To The Party invites you to a deconstruction / celebration of Season One of HBO’s Watchmen. Watchmen is a superhero drama television series that continues the 1987 DC Comics series Watchmen...
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Episode 37: The End of the F***ing World from 2019-12-06T04:20
Welcome To the Party Pal meticulously explores the in-and-outs of the fascinating British dark comedy / drama television program The End of the Fing World. The End of the Fing World, which is based...
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Episode 36: The Lighthouse from 2019-11-21T14:45
Batten down the hatches! Episode 36 of Welcome To The Party Pal travels to a remote island off the coast of New England to examine one of the most original and captivating films of 2019, The Lighth...
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Episode 35: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman from 2019-11-15T06:00
Welcome To The Party Pal invites you to experience a celebration of Martin Scorsese’s latest filmmaking epic, The Irishman. The film is a 2019 American crime flick directed and produced by legendar...
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Episode 34: The Name of The Rose from 2019-10-29T14:49
Welcome To The Party Pal transports listeners back in time to 1327 Italy in an episode dedicated to the multiple adaptations of Italian author Umberto Eco's renowned novel, The Name of The Rose. Th...
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Episode 33: Succession Season 2 from 2019-10-15T13:12
Welcome To The Party Pal invites listeners into the sordid, captivating world of HBO's Succession. Succession is an American satirical comedy-drama television series create...
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Episode 32: Chasing The Moon with Robert Stone from 2019-08-27T11:00
Episode 32 delves into Chasing the Moon, a film by Robert Stone, a six-hour documentary series about the space race that journeys from its earliest beginnings to the monumental achieve...
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Episode 31: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from 2019-08-01T10:22
Welcome To The Party Pal journeys back to 1969 Los Angeles to celebrate the 9th film by acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,everyth...
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Episode 30: Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus from 2019-07-25T13:14
Episode 30 on WTTPP takes you on the road in an in-depth celebration of the first two seasons of Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus. Tales from the Tour Bus is an animated documentary tel...
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Episode 29: Chernobyl from 2019-06-14T07:00
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics became one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. In June 2019, the hosts of Welcome...
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Episode 28: Black Mirror, Season 5 from 2019-06-11T14:18
The Welcome To The Party team revisits the subject of their debut episode, once again exploring the twisted, thought-proving world of the techno-paranoia anthology Black Mirror. Black Mirror is a t...
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Episode 27: The Apocalypse Now 40th Anniversary Spectacular from 2019-05-29T13:36
On the cusp of its 40th Anniversary, the Welcome To The Party Pal duo — with the help of actor/comedian Will Nunziata (of God Ween Evan fame) — celebrate the masterpiece that is Francis Ford C...
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Episode 26: The Game of Thrones Episode from 2019-05-24T10:59
WTTPP hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields — with the help of Game of Thrones expert and Across The Margin’s GOT Guru Geoffrey Golia — celebrate and dissect the worldwide phenomenon that is the ...
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Episode 25: The Bill Paxton Episode from 2019-05-10T06:30
The Welcome To The Party Pal team invites you to join in on a celebration of the career of one of the most gifted character actors in modern times, Bill Paxton. With 97 acting credits to his name, ...
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Episode 24: Avengers: Engame from 2019-05-01T14:08
The Welcome to The Party Pal duo go all in on the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the follow up to 2018's Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame. Dissecting and celebrating the finale...
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Episode 23: One Nation Under Stress from 2019-04-10T14:04
In this latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, the eye-opening and urgent documentary One Nation Under Stress (HBO) is dissected with the help of its director Marc Levin. One Nation Under Stre...
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Episode 22: Leaving Neverland from 2019-03-21T07:10
Pulling no punches, yet careful in their treatment of a sensitive/controversial topic, the Welcome To The Party Pal duo examines the HBO documentary directed and produced by filmmaker Dan Reed, Lea...
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Episode 21: Watership Down from 2019-03-06T13:45
The latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal invites you into the world of Richard Adams's Watership Down. Expounding upon Adam's 1972 survival and adventure novel which features a small group of...
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Episode 20: True Detective Season 3 from 2019-02-27T13:33
The 20th episode of Welcome To The Party Pal draws you deep into the world of HBO's True Detective, the gritty anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto. On the heels of the...
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Episode 19: Fyre Fraud/ Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened from 2019-02-05T15:18
Episode 19 of Welcome To The Party Pal ushers listeners into one of the most notorious festival failures of all time, Billy McFarland and Ja Rule's Fyre Festival. Expounding on two documentaries th...
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Episode 18: Vice from 2019-01-22T16:28
The Welcome To The Party Pal team once again gets political in an episode dedicated to the Oscar-nominate film Vice, directed by Adam McKay and starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carrell, an...
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Episode 17: The Die Hard 30th Anniversary / Xmas Spectacular! from 2018-12-23T17:04
To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of one of the greatest action (and holiday?) films of all time, Welcome To The Party Pal dedicates it's final episode of 2018 to the 1988 thriller directed by Jo...
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Episode 16: A Prayer Before Dawn from 2018-12-03T15:23
Episode 16 of Welcome To The Party Pal finds hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields journeying to Thailand in an episode that puts under the spotlight the ultra-intense 2017 drama A Prayer Before ...
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Episode 15: Fahrenheit 11/9 from 2018-11-02T15:43
Join in as the Welcome To The Party Pal team dissect and commend Michael Moore's important new documentary Fahrenheit 11/9. In an episode that acts as a call to action to Vote(!), a passionate disc...
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Episode 14: There Will Be Blood from 2018-10-02T16:13
In the latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields — with help from actor, comedian, writer and co-host of the podcast God Ween Evan, Will Nunziata — dive de...
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Episode 13: Wild Wild Country With Editor Neil Meiklejohn from 2018-08-15T18:49
Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his fiery assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their deeply committed community of fol...
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Episode 12: Mission Impossible — Fallout from 2018-08-07T07:00
Episode 12 of Welcome To The Party Pal finds hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields celebrating the sixth installment of the Mission Impossible series, Fallout. In a discussion about the action sp...
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Episode 11: The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 from 2018-07-17T12:20
Take a journey into to the authoritarian, theocratic regime of The Republic of Gilead in the latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal where the second season of The Handmaid's Tale is thoroughly ...
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Episode 10: Westworld Season 2 from 2018-07-05T18:14
Welcome To The Party Pal hits its stride in its tenth episode where the second season of HBO's Westworld is meticulously examined and hailed by hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields. Join in on a...
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Episode 9: 2001: A Space Odyssey - 50th Anniversary Spectacular from 2018-06-04T14:06
In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Welcome To The party Pal duo blasts off to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite to recount on the grandeur of the 1968 epic science fiction film produced and ...
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Episode 8: The Arnold Schwarzenegger Episode! from 2018-05-18T14:35
The Welcome To The Party team invites you to join in on a celebration of the career of arguably the great action star of all time, Arnold Schwarzenegger. With the help of comedian, actor, and one o...
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Episode 7: Avengers - Infinity War from 2018-05-07T14:24
Join in as the Welcome to The Party Pal team dives deeply into the 19th offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Avengers: Infinity War. In one of the nerdiest episodes yet, hosts Michael Shie...
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Episode 6: Blue Planet II with Roger Horrocks (Underwater Cinematographer / Wildlife Cameraman) from 2018-04-16T14:32
Welcome To The Party Pal returns with a true deep dive into BBC's Blue Planet II. Blue Planet II is a 2017 British nature documentary series on marine life produced by the BBC Natural History Unit....
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Episode 5: Embrace of The Serpent from 2018-04-05T18:12
In the latest episode of WTTPP, hosts Brian Sachon and Michael Shields explore the Amazon jungle through the 2015 drama Embrace Of The Serpent, directed by Ciro Guerra and written by Guerra and Jac...
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Episode 4: Electric Dreams with Kalen Egan (writer/producer) from 2018-03-19T16:27
The Welcome To The Party Pal team is back at it, this time putting under the microscope the exciting new anthology series now streaming on Amazon titled Electric Dreams. Electric Dreams is a series...
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Episode 3: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri from 2018-03-04T14:57
The Welcome To The Party Pal team is back at it, this time delving deep into the Oscar-nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Expounding upon the intricacies of the Martin McDona...
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Episode 2: Phantom Thread from 2018-02-26T15:57:28
In this episode of Welcome to The Party Pal, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is dissected, and its grandeur examined. In the podcast Brian and Michael dive into the themes present in Phantom ...
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Episode 1: Black Mirror from 2018-02-11T14:32:49
Welcome to the Party Pal is the mind-bending film and television podcast you didn’t know you needed. Hosted by Brian Sachson (producer/writer) and Michael Shields (writer/editor), WTTPP is a cel...
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