{"podcast":{"title":"The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast","slug":"the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm-podcast-6654025","podcast_index_feed_id":6654025,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/490532/destinations/4187609.xml","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/490532","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/5/8/8/f5888ae749c4c630e5bbc093207a2619/TPNICMP1.png","author":"Corbin Smith and Matt Ellis","episode_count":124,"summary":"A Podcast about movies from the fine folks at the Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation, with Corbin Smith (The Famous Writer) and Dr. Movies, Matt Ellis (A Professor of Movies)","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm-podcast-6654025"},"episode":{"title":"\"Lessons of Darkness\" (1992, Dir: Werner Herzog) w/ Dom Sinacola (Portland Mercury)","slug":"lessons-of-darkness-1992-dir-werner-herzog-w-dom-sinacola-portland-mercury","published_at":"2026-03-27T16:12:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm-podcast-6654025/lessons-of-darkness-1992-dir-werner-herzog-w-dom-sinacola-portland-mercury","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm-podcast-6654025","url":"https://79d0601c-2b27-48f2-8de5-88b4329e3146.libsyn.com/lessons-of-darkness-1992-dir-werner-herzog-w-dom-sinacola","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/79d0601c-2b27-48f2-8de5-88b4329e3146/Lessons_of_Darkness.m4a?dest-id=4187609","summary":"This week, Matt and Corbin are joined by DOM SINACOLA ( Film Critic at The Portland Mercury , The Werner Hertzblog ) to talk about LESSONS OF DARKNESS, Werner Herzog's impressionistic non fiction essay movie about the burning oilfields of Kuwait in the wake of the first Gulf War. Topics include: is this movie responsible? Germany in the post war, Herzog and truth and lies, and other stuff. Honestly it's been a while since we recorded it, so it's possible I'm missing something. Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing . Matt is also on there . And we got a Bluesky going. Next episode is about \"The White Ribbon,\" which is streaming somewhere, probably.","meta_description":"This week, Matt and Corbin are joined by DOM SINACOLA ( Film Critic at The Portland Mercury , The Werner Hertzblog ) to talk about LESSONS OF DARKNESS, We…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8214,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm-podcast-6654025/episodes/lessons-of-darkness-1992-dir-werner-herzog-w-dom-sinacola-portland-mercury/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm-podcast-6654025/lessons-of-darkness-1992-dir-werner-herzog-w-dom-sinacola-portland-mercury.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}