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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!

May 12, 2014

0:00:00 - 0:04:52 - INTROS -  Tucker Stone and Sean Witzke have a couple of big anniversary announcements for episode 75 and what to expect from this show in the future!

0:04:53 - 0:25:34 - Tucker went and saw Draft Day (2014), directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Kevin Costner, Frank Langella, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Chadwick Boseman, Rosanna Arquette, Chi McBride, Sam Elliot, Terry Crews, Ellen Burstyn, W. Earl Brown, Dennis Leary, Pat Healy, and DIDDY. Also discussed in this section: Booty Call, Jerry Maguire, Ang Lee's The HulkManhunter, Silence of the Lambs, 42, The Leauge, and Smallville

0:25:35 - 0:29:14 - We talk about the returns of Louie and 24. Also discussed in this section: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Porkys,  Person of Interest, and Jason Vorhees.  

0:29:15 - 0:42:38 - Tucker and Sean both saw Under the Skin (2014), directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Scarlett Johansson. Also discussed in this section: Xtro, Hellraiser 1 & 2, Species 1 & 2, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Birth, Sexy Beast, David Fincher, Match Point, Scoop, Boogie Nights, Pulp Fiction, and Ghost World.  

0:42:39 - 0:48:49 - We catch up on the past 3 episode of our favorite show Person of InterestOH YEAH. 

0:48:50 - 0:54:16 - Sean watched Death Sentence (2007), directed by James Wan, starring Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, Aisha Tyler, Garret Hedlund, Kelly Preston, and Leigh Wannell. Also discussed in this section: Fast and the Furious 7, other James Wan films, Universal Soldier; Day of Reckoning, Evil Kurt Russell, the new era Schwarzennegger, and The Running Man

0:54:17 - 1:05:44 - Finally, Sean watched Licence To Kill (1989), directed by John Glen, starring Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Wayne Newton, Benicio Del Toro, Desmond Llewellyn, Priscilla Barnes, Don Stroud, and Everett McGill. Also mentioned in this section: the James Bond documentary Everything Or Nothing, Quantum of Solace, Goldfinger, Straw Dogs, Miami Vice, Scarface, and Road Warrior

Our outro music this week: Seventy Four, Seventy Five. 

 

NEXT WEEK: Our first live show is in Philadelphia, buy tickets now!