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Relentless Picnic

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Inquiry. Travesty. Not like other podcasts. @lazenby.bsky.social, @juskewitch.bsky.social, @erikk38.bsky.social • Patreon: patreon.com/relentlesspicnic • iTunes: apple.co/392lLur • Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/44HopApQjsZJ9Y4S1Qy2vR

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 16/09/2026

is this whole thing just a little joke about the historiography of the bronze age collapse? did nolan direct a laughably bad fight scene on purpose? is the erosion of the law of zeus a kind of code for sexual violence? part 2 of our odyssey discussion, free to all. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...

Nolan's Odyssey (part 2) | Stanley Picnic

Adam, Erikk, and Nick continue their discussion of The Odyssey, which took place in the immediate aftermath of first seeing The Odyssey (202

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 09/09/2026

is "the odyssey" (2026) a film that contemplates whether we inaugurate a post-literate society and thereby trigger civilization's downfall by straying too far from 🆉🅴🆄🆂'🆂 🅻🅰🆆? or is that, y'know... sorta dumb? we begin to discuss. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...

Nolan's Odyssey (part 1) | Stanley Picnic

Earlier this summer, Adam, Erikk, and Nick saw The Odyssey separately, and then came together to talk things out. This discussion took place

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 08/09/2026

we talked at some length about nolan's (and homer's) odyssey — way before the internet became saturated by thinkpiece after plodding thinkpiece. it just took us a really long time to get it out to you. here's part 1. parts 2 and 3 to come. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...

Nolan's Odyssey (part 1) | Stanley Picnic

Earlier this summer, Adam, Erikk, and Nick saw The Odyssey separately, and then came together to talk things out. This discussion took place

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 12/02/2026

look upon these world-historical artists. our new episode is the golden thread uniting them

el alfa, el rey de dembow

simon le bon, el rey de los lobos

austin powers, el rey de las espías, niño

rob lowe, el rey de brat pack

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 11/02/2026

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨 let's dive inside the mind of a wolf, explore the possibility that spoken communication is kind of a trick, and ask: what's the source of the overwhelming evil we feel as a component of the truck we're driving? oh and also — the most unhinged piece of audio we've ever put out

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Yo Un-hyong Appreciator @mongyang.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

there's an interesting comic about this by nate powell from 2019 popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 01/01/2026

one day, I'm gonna be a veteran in paradise. one day, I'll be the man who can't sleep and talks to strangers.

don draper sits pensively at a bar in the royal hawaiian hotel, in a pale yellow blazer and aloha shirt

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 08/11/2025

@saramchenry.bsky.social sara did you see the interview with a basketball player talking about Derek?

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Erikk Geannikis @erikk38.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

you really couldn't do better than 25 years after 9/11 dick cheney finally dies on the same day as a majority of NYC voters elect a socialist muslim mayor. that is some mythic lightbearer being sweatily forged in the darkness type mythos.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 27/09/2025

I hope you’ve all had a chance to listen to these new ‘picnic potluck’ style episodes. they have a grab bag quality but themes emerge in a cool way. now, has the theme always been regret? anyway free on the patreon and worth listening to. not 9 hour episodes! 1 hour! www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

The Inevitable Curse of Regret | Stanley Picnic

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Anime Sickos Podcast @animesickos.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Our new live comedy show GENIUS NIGHT: A NIGHT FOR GENIUSES was a total triumph. Watch it for yourself and see.

Genius Night: A Night for Geniuses - September 2025

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 27/09/2025

I hope you’ve all had a chance to listen to these new ‘picnic potluck’ style episodes. they have a grab bag quality but themes emerge in a cool way. now, has the theme always been regret? anyway free on the patreon and worth listening to. not 9 hour episodes! 1 hour! www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 26/09/2025

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Ep. 29 - The Swarm

This week it’s fourteen conversations about one thing. We do a little research on the symptoms of fascism and begin to feel like an expendable character in the first act of a horror film. Plus: TED ta

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 21/09/2025

in this ep. one of us exclaims “81!” like it’s the most faint-in-church shocking thing ever and one of us explains why he got a tattoo of the phrase “lust demon santa” & how he hopes to use time travel to erase the tattoo and our convo about it. www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 17/09/2025

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 16/09/2025

what comes to mind when you hear the phrase “body count’? that’s where we start things. adam keeps talking about how this one is a “certified banger.” free now on our patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 15/09/2025

why so looking back? we're in our heads about the past — wondering about whizzing back into the kingdom of regrets, shattering the laws of thermodynamics in the process. oh and — the thing that happened that you totally forgot about? don't worry about it. if it were important, you'd remember it.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 13/09/2025

is the use of a typewriter these days a fetishistic fedora-worshipping-esque abomination or a way to connect to something that might actually matter? only nick can lead us in such an inquiry. www.patreon.com/posts/137654...

A Master's Tools/Master's House Situation | Stanley Picnic

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 12/09/2025

dear lord As a result of preorders, Mr. Kirk's "Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life" was the second best-selling title on Amazon on Friday. The book will be out in December.

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 01/09/2025

time to: - dwell in the silences - interrogate your nostalgia - charge your phone (?)

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Yo come over! We got some of the master's tools and we're gonna wreck his shitty house hahaa

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 29/08/2025

here's another talk we want to share with you. it's a few chats that all kind of converged around some form of nostalgia. that, and trying to suss out what impediments in our lives are bc of our phones, and what might be just good old-fashioned self-defeat. oh and tamagotchis — remember those?

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 29/08/2025

a white thirtysomething man lies upon a hardwood floor surrounded by vintage typewriters, and he has his hand behinds his head (which is sheathed in a wool cap) and he has a shit-eating grin, and he stares above him where the heavens would be — but in this particular photo it's you, the viewer, that he's staring at, and something about his whole vibe seems to say: "i'm that guy. that typewriter guy. the one whose very existence as a type in the world exists as a kind of typewriter-repelling mythos amongst the reasonable."

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 18/08/2025

that moment when you’re in your car at a red light and there’s a person standing on the median hoping you will help them out with some cash… how do you feel? how do you handle it? and what should you do exactly? www.patreon.com/posts/136097...

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phantomwifi @phantomwifi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This was really good, and I recommend it. It made me feel better somehow, even if it made me feel like a semi parasocial freak. I saw a really dim light at the end of a really narrow tunnel

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 11/08/2025

In a word, we're back. Join us for a round table on the right way to whistleblow, the ethics of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and the famous James Earl Jones quantum leap in Godfather Part 1. Up now, and free for all on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/136097...

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The Democrats start turning a big crank and out of a loudspeaker comes the first notes of "Fight Song"

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

DON DRAPER: "We quiero many things. Work, dignity, solidarity, safety, love. But this guy--" (Taps drawing of Diego Luna as Cassian Andor as Che) "There's only one thing he quieros." PEGGY: "Ownership of the means of production?" DRAPER: "Ownership of the means of production."

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 31/01/2025

7 years ago, we snuck an AI conversation in the middle of this episode (which is otherwise about level-headed atheist redditors who think they've glimpsed the paranormal). though hype then was vanishingly small compared to today's radioactive levels, we think it still holds up. 41:44–1:10:38 here

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Ep. 15 - His Favorite Child

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Colin @yesitscolin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Jon Hamm from Mad Men standing in front of a sign during an advertising pitch meeting. The sign says "Blow yourself up in a car"

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 29/12/2024

speaking of carter studies, this 1979 piece by @jfallows.bsky.social, Carter's former speechwriter, is essential.

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The Passionless Presidency

The trouble with Jimmy Carter's Administration

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 29/12/2024

r.i.p. to jimmy c., whose unquestionable moral seriousness, when it collided with material realities of power, yielded a complicated legacy. we went through it here (alongside the philosophy of john dewey & some psycho-autobiographies of the american consumer)

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Ep. 31 - Just Citizens

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 28/11/2024

🚨🦃 new MAD MEN PROJECT 🦃🚨 it's thanksgiving, 1960. don abandons his family, but soon feels a telltale twinge in his heart. harry crane imagines small-handed artists travelling through time, betty works her analyst, and peggy seeks care for a bad sandwich. www.patreon.com/posts/116859...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 28/11/2024

🚨🦃 new MAD MEN PROJECT 🦃🚨 it's thanksgiving, 1960. don abandons his family, but soon feels a telltale twinge in his heart. harry crane imagines small-handed artists travelling through time, betty works her analyst, and peggy seeks care for a bad sandwich. www.patreon.com/posts/116859...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 27/11/2024

a hand reaches down to manipulate a Kodak slide projector sitting on a table (from "The Wheel," S1 E13 of Mad Men)

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 22/11/2024

we're live in an hour, friends.

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 21/11/2024

so… what's worth doing? what's a trap to avoid? what are relevant sources of information? which ones just rob our attention? what are useful interventions? what are palliative distractions? what do we owe one another? join us LIVE, tonight at 8pm et www.patreon.com/posts/116251...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 18/11/2024

🚨 POST-ELECTION LIVE SHOW 🚨 thursday 11/21 8pm ET on YouTube (link is up for our Patreon supporters). it's not gonna be another postmortem. we're trying to figure out an appropriate relationship to the future, and how to value our emotions. it'll be personal. and probably messy. please join us.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 31/07/2024

🚨 new MAD MEN PROJECT 🚨 it's nixon vs. kennedy time, ft. lieutenant donald draper's young trenchmate, the optimism of the american corporation, a head-on moral dichotomy of "good" & "not good," and one slippery-as-hell gold zippo. let's get incantatory.

Mad Men Project: S1 E12 - “Nixon vs. Kennedy” | Stanley Picnic

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 17/07/2024

we'd like to talk to you about an opportunity to live in frozen comfort. ft. the heat, another heart attack, the troubling interplay of moral rules + creative advice, a sensation that some women want to feel, & the value of a human life. it's the MAD MEN Project, back on schedule.

Mad Men Project: S1 E11 - “Indian Summer” | Stanley Picnic

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 24/04/2024

well pull my boots on, and bet your eyes for elephants! let's do the numbers:

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Ep. 26 - This Is Marketplace

Listen to this episode from The Relentless Picnic on Spotify. Like I always say, if the markets are a-singin', you better know how to make 'em dance. Today on the program, it's a deep dive in the shal...

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 18/04/2024

at long last — and in emulation of the 2 weeks in '07 between the original airings of eps 9 & 10 — here's . . . 🚨 NEW MAD MEN PROJECT 🚨 ft. fast-approaching death, your dad's new girlfriend, the doucher twins, 🎶 kennedy kennedy kennedy 🎶, and a keen eye for the Jewish angle.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 15/04/2024

Friends, as you know, eclipse madness involves severe time dilation. Thank you for bearing with us!

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

I've been re-listening to the @relentlesspicnic.bsky.social episode No World, which among other topics covers how fundamentally incurious and unintelligent Musk is. Our boys had his number years before he became so unfortunately prominent in our bullshit society

Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 04/04/2024

🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E9 🚨 ft. being told you're angry at your mother, the grotesqueries of fur coats, yankee stadium as emblem of death, wanting to be that girl again, & asking: what comes next? what if?

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 04/04/2024

🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E9 🚨 ft. being told you're angry at your mother, the grotesqueries of fur coats, yankee stadium as emblem of death, wanting to be that girl again, & asking: what comes next? what if? where's life being lived? betty's got a gun. www.patreon.com/posts/101683...

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 28/03/2024

🧨MAD MEN Project - S1 E8🧨 ft. hippies picking a fight, unexpected bonuses, what exactly we have to be afraid of, whether the stone that one sleeps like is a rolling stone, and the possibility of nomadic love www.patreon.com/posts/mad-me...

Mad Men Project: S1 E8 - “The Hobo Code” | Stanley Picnic

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 20/03/2024

🚨 MAD MEN Project - S1 E7 🚨 ft. men parking in other men's garages, several ways to miss the mark on a home-cooked meal, a catastrophe in the bridal returns department, eating the M in mommy, and — stairs: they're a lot easier when you're going down.

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