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Travis Bickle On The Riviera

Hi there! I'm Tucker Stone, one of the three guys who hosts a podcast called Travis Bickle on the Rivieria. I've written for places like Flavorwire, The Comics Journal, Comixology and The Factual Opinion, and am currently punching the clock at Nobrow, a publisher of comics, graphic novels and children's books. Back in 2012, my friend Sean Witzke, a movie critic whose most recent work can be read at Grantland, started this podcast as a way to continue the conversations (and arguments) we had been having about movies amongst our mutual blogs.

Although neither one of us had listened to a lot of podcasts, we felt that our cantankerous, expletive laden diatribes might be of interest to others, and in the years since, we have been extremely lucky to be proven right: people, for whatever reason, like to listen to a couple of miserable depressives wax nostalgic over action movies from the 80's. (It probably didn't hurt that the hugely talented Michel Fiffe drew our logo image!)

When I became a father in 2013, longtime friend of the show and frequent guest host Morgan Jeske came on board to keep Sean from going stir crazy with backed-up opinions. Jeske--the talented cartoonist behind books for Image Comics like Change and Zero--rapidly made himself indispensable, and after my return to the show, it only made sense to welcome him on as an official host, turning this gruesome twosome into the trio it had always been destined to be. As the episodes have piled up (you can check out our episode guide, with every movie, director and special episode listed here), the show was continually graced with a murderers row of guests from the world of comics and film--you can see all of those amazing people at that link as well.

All of that brings us right up to right now, a cold day in October: the day where we ask for help. Simply put, the increased interest in the show has meant that we've had to put a bit more into the nuts and bolts of paying for it than we used to, and we thought 133 episodes (at most recent count) was enough to try passing the hat to help meet the costs. The show isn't in danger of going anyway anytime soon--Sean, Morgan and I like hurting each others feelings just a little too much for that to be a real concern--but we would appreciate the breathing room that financial support will allow.  Below you'll see the various levels of pledge options and the rewards they provide--we're pretty excited about them, especially the one where we send you surprises you can't return--but even if you come away thinking that we don't deserve one thin dime, it still means a lot that you stopped by in the first place. Thank you for reading, but most of all thank you for listening!

Oct 30, 2017

On this ultraspecial episode of Travis Bickle, we get into it about David Fincher--all his movies, and why we love them. (Or don't!)


Oct 23, 2017

On this week's episode, Morgan and Tucker talk about the recent release of Blade Runner, which seemed to have ahold of the zeitgeist for a grand total of two days, Geostorm, the latest Gerard Butler vehicle, and Mindhunter, which is a television show on the Netflix network.

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Oct 9, 2017

On this episode of Travis Bickle, Tucker and Sean check in to see how the other is preparing for Friday the 13th, the continuing disappointment that is watching Sam Worthington in Manhunt, and then, it's movie time. This week, they're looking into the newest installment in the Kingsman franchise, Darren Aronofsky's...


Oct 2, 2017

On this episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera, Morgan and Sean get together to talk about one of 2017's most financially successful new movies: It. After that, it's time for Joe Vs. The Volcano and Wild At Heart. Dive on in: the water is full of ambivalent Stephen King movies! Need more in the way of show notes? We've...