Moronic Logic
Conversational documentarians discuss film history, directors' filmographies in chronological order, and decide what really should have won at different film award shows.
Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast will premiere simultaneously as both a podcast and as a show on YouTube. This show will feature regular host Kenny alongside a rotating co-host to get different unique perspectives and keep things lively. This show will chronologically go through every Academy Awards since 1929, watching every movie nominated for best picture in that year and discussing what still holds up, what should have won, and what should be left in the dust bin of history! Please feel free to let us know when we are wrong, right, way off the mark, and your own personal preferences in the comments sections wherever they might be! We encourage you to watch these movies as well and be surprised along with us with what you end up liking. This show will air new episodes on the 1st of every month!
The Hitchcock Challenge (aka Presenting Alfred Hitchcock) originally premiered on YouTube and is hosted by your pals (the three morons and original founding fathers of Moronic Logic) Kenny, Sam, and Lantz. This two hour long show breaks down every movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in chronological order, identifying recurring themes, reused actors, sources for follow up reading and whatever related minutia the hosts dig up. It is recommended you watch the Hitchcock film we are discussing before listening to our episode to avoid spoilers, and joining in on the discussion wherever comments sections are available! This show will be back! Promise!
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Golden Boy #2: The Second Academy Awards in 1930! (+The Mary Pickford Controversy!)
Welcome to Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast! Join Moronic Logic monthly as Kenny enlists a rotating co-host from an assemblage of interesting and unique voices to watch every movie nominated for Best Picture in a given year and decide who SHOULD have won the Golden Boy.
We do EVERYTHING in chronological order at Moronic Logic, so Episode 2 takes us to the Second Academy Awards, held in early 1930, where Golden Boy host Kenny Cahoon and guest host Robert Albanese must decide which of 5 films is the actual Best Picture. This episode features a Schrodinger's cat dilemma as one of the nominated films, The Patriot, is a LOST MOVIE. Is it alive, or is it dead? Can we vote for it? Should we vote for it? Are these early talkies any good? Join us and join in on the discussion! By the end of the episode only one movie (or two if we do not agree) will prevail and take home the actual Golden Boy.
Robert William Albanese III is a reformed academic and occasional college instructor in the area of cinema studies, literature and popular culture. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa, where once he heard a professor refer to himself as a "competent dilettante" and thought, yeah, I'm going to put that on my LinkedIn.
Intro Music: "Let the Light Shine Through by Reynard Seidel
Outro Music: "Through The Light" by Reynard Seidel
Music through Epidemic Sound
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Still pushing this film!
King Vidor's THE CROWD (1928)!
This movie is only available through the Internet Archive here-
https://archive.org/details/lafouleth...
Recommendations!!!!!
Here are two great podcasts I started listening to when working on this episode! I didn't have time to try any new ones this month but when I do I will add them to the list.
Oscar Podcast- The Oscars Year by Year (Sasha Stone) Episode 74b is relevant to the 1929 Academy Awards. Three knowledgable hosts with great banter. This is where I first heard about Louis B Mayer screwing over The Crowd (1928) for all time.
https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/s...
Time Honored Pictures with Reyes and Evergreen. I listened to their episode on Wings and 7th Heaven and loved the knowledge and chemistry these two had.
