Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the recently-finished strike at Boeing, a company that may be representative of the country.Par Punching Out

Episode 18-RRR Flying tigers, Indian freedom fighters and evil English scumbags. Bloody battles, numerous songs, one spectacular dance routine and a very brutal flogging. What’s not to love in S.S Rajamouli’s Tolly (not Bolly) Wood breakout international action hit? Nothing, if your Adam (despite repeatedly mispronouncing the director’s name in the…

Episode 17-Gladiator For those about to listen, we salute you. In this epic episode of the Punching Up Movie Podcast Adam unleashes hell (and a couple of hungry man-eating tigers) on Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s tale of Roman revenge and arena combat. Adam quite likes Scott but really doesn’t like Gladiator. Damian likes Gladiator but has an axe to gr…

Ryan, Noah, and Zoe discuss the remarkable growth in popularity women's sports have experienced over the past couple years, and whether all that new attention and revenue will benefit the players at the center of it all.Par Punching Out

Episode 16-Dr Strangelove What could possibly be worse than Peter Sellers? Peter Sellers times 3. In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 nuclear war black comedy, Dr Strangelove, England’s greatest comic actor plays three separate characters and Damian Asher doesn’t like it. Does three times the Sellers = three times the hate from the normally benign Stanley Ku…

Episode 15-Bram Stoker's Dracula Who is the best Dracula? Is it Bela Lugosi’s suave count, Christopher Lee’s aristocratic Prince of Darkness, Max Shrek’s rat faced Nosferatu… or Gary Oldman’s lovelorn immortal who has crossed oceans of time to romance Winona Rider in Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula? Well, if you're Adam Nightingale it …

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the impacts of climate change on workers, and the Supreme Court on climate change.Par Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the Republican nominee for Vice President, and the weird ideology that guides himPar Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the efforts at shutting down pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.Par Punching Out

Episode 14-Kill Bill Vol 2 In the second part of our first two-parter, Punching Up punches up at its first sequel, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol 2. Damian perpetuates his beef with QT’s roaring, raging, rampage of revenging but narrows his focus to the eponymous Bill himself. Damian doesn’t like David Carradine’s performance. Adam tries manfull…

Episode 13-Kill Bill Volume 1 In this episode Damian and Adam don’t so much punch up but chop down, with a katana sword (or to be more precise, a Hattori Hanzo sword), as it is time to kill Kill Bill, or kill Kill Bill Volume 1 (to be even more precise), Quention Tarantino’s martial arts masterpiece of retribution and revenge. So, expect 450 gallon…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the labor abuses that have been required to build the upcoming Olympics in Paris.Par Punching Out

Episode 12-Bande a Part In the immortal words of Thin Lizzy (or that blues band that played in 48 Hours), The Boys Are Back In Town. That's right, Punching Up The Movie Podcast is back. This week we take shots at one of the pioneers of the French Nouvelle Vague cinema, Maoist essayist and intellectual contrarian, Jean Luc Godard and his supposedly …

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the changing landscape of youth athletics, and a wave of graduate student unionizationPar Punching Out

Ryan and Kathryn discuss the ways in which non-profits mirror profit-driven workplacesPar Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss a disturbing trend of crowdsourced labor in games targeted to children.Par Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss good news coming from the UAW and, of all places, the federal governmentPar Punching Out

Ryan and Noah are joined by Rajesh and Howard to discuss the challenges faced by urban school districts like RCSD.Par Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the connections between conservatives' targeting of diversity in education and America's ongoing teacher shortage.Par Punching Out

Episode 11-EASY RIDER (1969) Two men went looking for a podcast and couldn’t find it anywhere. On this episode Adam takes a swing at the biker movie, road movie, hippytastic gamechanger that singlehandedly launched the New Hollywood, 1969’s Easy Rider, not realizing that it is one of Damian’s favourite movies. Will their friendship survive, or will…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the long-lingering effects of the "Red Scare."Par Punching Out

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways D & C Wranglers. Better Mood? Abbreviation Sledging. @punchingsideways on Facebook @punchingsideways on Instagram Buy Josh and Mel some Coffees and get your question answered on the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/punchyPar Josh Liston & Mel Naismith - Albury-Wodonga

Episode 10-THE DEPARTED (2006) What has poor Martin Scorsese done to annoy the Punching Up team? Our series hasn’t been going that long and this is the third time around for America’s greatest living director. It’s beginning to look like a lot like bullying. This time it’s the turn of The Departed, Scorsese’s Boston-based Irish-American remake of t…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss something called ZIRPPar Punching Out

Episode 9-HARD BOILED (1992) Can an action movie have too much action? Punching Up’s Adam thinks so. Is John Woo’s cop vs triads cult classic, Hard Boiled really better than a dozen Die Hards, or does it suffer from a terminal case of the try-hards? Adam thinks it does. Is John Woo really the Mozart of Mayhem, or is he actually the Andre Rieu of Ch…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss yet another round of media layoffs and the philosophical question of "what makes a Brand Authentic?"Par Punching Out

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways The Problem: Holding grudges on behalf of others. The Question: Is it good, bad, or otherwise? The Answer: Listen In! @punchingsideways on Facebook @punchingsideways on Instagram Buy Josh and Mel some Coffees and get your question answered on the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/punchy…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the hidden drudgery that underpins the tech industry's supposed innovations.Par Punching Out

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways Mel vs Lifting. Josh vs the Excavator. Mel vs A Midsummer Night's "Dream". @punchingsideways on Facebook @punchingsideways on Instagram Buy Josh and Mel some Coffees and get your question answered on the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/punchyPar Josh Liston & Mel Naismith - Albury-Wodonga

Episode 8-ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) What happens when the weight of expectations ruins an experience? Find out in the latest Punching Up episode when Adam and Damian discuss the cult fave from a few years ago, Japanese film One Cut of the Dead directed by Shin'ichirō Ueda. Who liked it? Who didn't? Did the old geezers agree, disagree or fall somew…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou conclude the 2023 Genius Awards, and name our Genius of the YearPar Punching Out

Episode 7-SHAFT (1971) According to the legendary Isaac Hayes, John Shaft is a “Bad Mutha” as well as being a “sex machine to all the chicks,” whilst also being a “complicated man… who will risk his neck for his brother man.” But is the 1971 Blaxploitation classic that bears his name any good? While fully and freely conceding Shaft’s status as a ci…

In our Fifth Annual Genius Awards, Ryan, Noah, and Lou take a look at the brightest minds in tech and public officePar Punching Out

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways Money for Things vs No Money for Things. Financing the Gag. Escalation of Pigeon Corner. The Future of Sugar-Juicing. @punchingsideways on Facebook @punchingsideways on Instagram Buy Josh and Mel some Coffees and get your question answered on the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/punchy…

Episode 6-Inception (2010) It’s a Punching Up first!!!!! Damian has decided to play the bad guy this time and has nominated Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending sci-fi actioner Inception for the Punching Up (TM) treatment. The normally misanthropic Adam is attempting to defend Nolan’s dream-within-a-dream..…within a dream masterpiece. So, will it be sw…

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways Josh vs The Bathroom. Mel's Dad Builds a Thing. Josh Does Math. @punchingsideways on Facebook @punchingsideways on Instagram Buy Josh and Mel some Coffees and get your question answered on the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/punchyPar Josh Liston & Mel Naismith - Albury-Wodonga

Ryan, Noah, and Zoe discuss the fledgling PWHL, and the landscape for women's pro sports in North AmericaPar Punching Out

Episode 5a-KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON AT FREDDY'S Punching Up is back with a mini episode before we launch Season 2. It’s Punching Up’s first re-match. For the second time, Damian and Adam have the great man Scorsese in their sights, taking Marty to task for the inordinate length of his latest smash, Killers of the Flower Moon. His blood still up, …

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss graduate student unionization efforts, and the creep of the economy into high school students' livesPar Punching Out

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways The Lady of The Lake. "Evil Dead meets Wolf creek in Kieran Jack's (The Talking Bread, In Purgatory and The Apparition) spin chilling graphic novel. Logan French (Amphibia Noir) brings his signature style to page to illustrate this story and deliver a fresh take on the horror genre". The Lady of The Swa…

Ryan, Noah, and Lou celebrate the 200th Episode with a return to Human ResentmentsPar Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the UAW's current strike against the big three automakers, and President Shawn Fain's role in adopting a more militant stance for the union.Par Punching Out

Ryan, Noah, and Lou discuss the hip new craze of neofeudalismPar Punching Out

https://www.jcaldigital.org/punching-sideways Mel vs D**kGate. Josh got banned from Tinder. New Product Announcement: "Pop Up Blockers". @punchingsideways on Facebook @punchingsideways on Instagram Buy Josh and Mel some Coffees and get your question answered on the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/punchy…