Noah and composer Ana Hausmann sing the praises of 2024's wordless animated wonder, Flow, and how its universal entertainment value delivers layers of deeper mysteries to uncover.

Noah chats with Samantha about 2004's romantic tragicomedy sci-fi masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and how its journey through memory, consciousness, and pain make for one of the most human stories put to film.

Nick and Noah dive the thought-experiment horror film The Mist, and how the monsters are secondary to the real horror of people caught in a closed environment, not to mention one of the bleakest endings ever put to film.

Filmmaker Mike Purvis sits down with Noah to analyze Woody Allen's 2011 comic fantasy romantic romp Midnight in Paris and what it has to say about the dangers that come with romanticizing the past.

S3 Episode 1: Alan Bern – Recorded December 20, 2025 Photo: Shendi Copitman

“So I got an accordion, I put it on my back, and I went to Europe ... “Do tune in to hear how Alan’s story intertwines music and speech with creativity, compassion, and being Jewish in today’s world. Listen in to hear how the “other” in Other Music Academy is not what you might think and how transcultural work is more about mycelium than bridges.

Alan and I met in the courtyard of Etz Hayyim Synagogue and this episode was recorded in the city of Chania on the island of Crete. It is the first of this 3rd “season” with the tagline of “voices from afar (and not so far).”

Give yourself a treat by checking out his work in Weimar and selected music, linked below.

Chico educates Noah on the surprising thematic density of the camp musical sensation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the number of interpretations that can be read from it.

Noah and Charlie discuss the unbridled creative, thoughtful, and contagious silliness of 1991's Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, and what makes it a perfect sequel.

Cedar swindles Noah into watching the ultra low-budget outsider film So Long Suburbia that prompts bittersweet reflections on the highs and lows of 2010s pop culture.