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Episode 318: A PTA Meeting
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- Very Bad Wizards
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- Oct 14, 2025
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- 6538
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Summary
David and Tamler share some brief thoughts about Paul Thomas Anderson's latest masterpiece One Battle After Another before going deep on his most underrated movie Inherent Vice . We explore the many connections between the two movies - Pynchon adaptations, shadowy forces, snitches who abandon their families, the blend of comedy and political fatalism, and the intrinsic and external forces that threaten relationships and resistance to power. [Note: some spoilers to OBAA in the opening segment but we note where they begin, and of course full spoilers to Inherent Vice .] A really fun discussion about maybe the best filmmaker working today. One Battle After Another [wikipedia.org] Inherent Vice [wikipedia.org]