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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 24/09/2026

It's the annual Choose Your Own Adventure episode! This week, Jennifer has selected for us three Doug Campbell (Deadly Mile High Club, Stalked By My Doctor) films for us to view and share round-robin style. Join us for mother-themed depravity, Doug-style! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 17/09/2026

This week on the show, we roll down our balaclavas to talk buffets of hot people, the fine line with depravity of showing some but not too much, and your college’s live death footage collection in 1996’s THESIS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 15/09/2026

On this Patreon episode, Josh cracks a One Wish Willow over Craig's head and tricks Jennifer into eating cat. That's right, it's the 2026 film OBSESSION. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 15/09/2026

On this Patreon episode, Josh cracks a One Wish Willow over Craig's head and tricks Jennifer into eating cat. That's right, it's the 2026 film OBSESSION. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 11/09/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, Josh and Craig talk the power of spaces, the burdens of adulthood and the world, and the searing light of the California sun in 1977’s KILLER OF SHEEP! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Delaney InfiniteSnow ❄️ @infinitesnow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

back to the grindstone again! i'm looking for folks who need smaller part time gigs done on a semi-regular basis at least, or people looking for an editor to help with their next big project

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✨Corryn✨ @sledreynalds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sign my petition to get @swimfanspod.com to watch all the Twilight movies now. Because I really need Josh and Jennifer to see Breaking Dawn pt1 and 2 asap. I crave their righteous indignation.

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 03/09/2026

This week on the pod, we talk teenage contrivance, the importance of vampire-specific powers and abilities, and Josh and Craig petition to become wolf wives in 2009’s THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 27/08/2026

This week on the show, we talk political paranoia in the 70s, unexpected editing and cinematographic choices, and incredibly drownable sheriffs in 1974’s THE PARALLAX VIEW! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 20/08/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about the metaphorical concrete walls between people, contracting bug disease, and vomiting into your neighbor’s hole in 1998’s THE HOLE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 13/08/2026

This week on the show, we talk the fantasy of abundance and community, befriending crows, and the beauty and grace of flesh buses in 1988’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 06/08/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, Jennifer and Craig prepare to drop flash drives of conversation about Spielberg, generational divides of attitudes about systems, and getting alien powers in 2026’s DISCLOSURE DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 30/07/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk about gay sex, clown-based liquor stores, and the switch from external sources of oblivion to internal ones in 1992’s THE LIVING END! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 23/07/2026

This week on the show, we welcome back video essayist and editor Delaney Jordan @infinitesnow.bsky.social to discuss making appeals to the fungus god, things made in the immediate wake of a pandemic, and how shag is too much shag in 2021's IN THE EARTH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 16/07/2026

This week on Swimfans, we celebrate Jennifer’s birthday and look back on formative film experiences, the power of a drifting crane shot, and we think about death and get sad and stuff in 2009’s ENTER THE VOID! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 09/07/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movies in 2025’s PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 02/07/2026

This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019’s THE LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 29/06/2026

Experience the faux wood paneling, used dip bottles and strange odors in the Uncle Zone as Heroes Three’s Matthew Tucciarone joins us to talk 1981 animated anthology film HEAVY METAL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 25/06/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991’s POISON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 19/06/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don’t commit to anything in 2018’s HIGH LIFE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 11/06/2026

It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the horrors of being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 04/06/2026

This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the necessity of art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970’s THE BOYS IN THE BAND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 02/06/2026

This Patreon session of Anime Club, Jennifer gets a whole closet of gowns, Craig is a living bioweapon, and Josh puts on his cute little helmet to go to Big Gun School as we dig into the Otomo-produced three short films inside of MEMORIES. linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 28/05/2026

On this week’s Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film’s beauty can take it in 1991’s THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 22/05/2026

This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022’s SKINAMARINK! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 15/05/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera cartoons than one would expect in 1975’s DEATH RACE 2000! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 12/05/2026

For this Patreon installment, we've decided to visit another chapter in the Baby Assassins franchise. We talk the delicate balance of a comedy duo, the power of a well-done Tony Stark Shot, and the joys of Churu in 2023's BABY ASSASSINS 2! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 07/05/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 01/05/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 24/04/2026

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we keep it real classic and talk the reflections of filmmakers on themselves, the multitude of roles we play in our own lives, and what happens when the mirror stares back in 1966’s PERSONA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 16/04/2026

This week on the show, we travel to Staten Island to talk lo-fi cyberpunk, chilling predictions of the future, and the joys of dining in an undefined space in 1994’s FRESH KILL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 09/04/2026

This week on the pod, we get real Michigan Mindset to talk character as director surrogate, European sensibilites and American aesthetics, and the sublime joy of a really good stick in 2024’s VULCANIZADORA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 02/04/2026

Everybody say, happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people just can’t leave each other alone in 1997’s HAPPY TOGETHER! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 01/04/2026

On this episode of elite dove content, we're trying out something new! Jenn and Josh sit down and talk in more detail what they've been enjoying lately. This round of Media Catch-up includes: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) and more! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 26/03/2026

This week, we’re joined by artist and designer @kevinjaystanton.bsky.social to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of a soup thermos in 2000’s IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE! #wongkarwai #inthemoodforlove linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 19/03/2026

Welcome to SWIMFANS: UNKNOWN PLEASURES! This week on the pod, we get mad about rent prices, value the inexplicable homies, and ponder about the sturdiness of cover walls in 2024’s CLOUD! #kiyoshikurosawa #cloud linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/03/2026

if you really think about it making a podcast is one of the bravest things anyone can do

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 12/03/2026

Still coming to you live from the red carpet, we dive back into the rest of the Best Picture nominees: 2025’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, SECRET AGENT, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SINNERS, and TRAIN DREAMS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans #onebattleafteranother #secretagent #sentimentalvalue #sinners

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 05/03/2026

Put on your sparkliest dress, dear listener: it’s time once again for OSCARMANIA! This week, we dip into some of the Best Picture nominees: 2025’s BUGONIA, F1, FRANKENSTEIN, HAMNET and MARTY SUPREME! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans #oscars #bugonia #f1 #frankenstein #hamnet #martysupreme

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 05/03/2026

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 26/02/2026

This week on the show, we return to de Palma and discuss cross-genre and split-screen jaunts, shifting your karmic debt to some random guy via magic, and even find the time to discuss interesting choices in skirts and shoes in 2002's FEMME FATALE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 19/02/2026

This week on the pod, we take a dip in the algae-green waters of our living room swimming pool and talk extended cinematic subtweets, strange new ways to do nude modeling, and manipulation of reality being the greatest effect of all in 1984's SPECIAL EFFECTS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 13/02/2026

This week on the pod, we welcome back video editor Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social to talk Acme-style ghouling, the many crashouts of Dr. Beck, and once more relitigate the ghosts-cheating argument in 2015’s STALKED BY MY DOCTOR! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 05/02/2026

This week on Swimfans, we talk movies without an internal logic, getting laid post-asylum stay, and when a noir is kinda more of a gris in 1990’s AFTER DARK, MY SWEET! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 29/01/2026

This week on the pod, we dive into a world of purely transactional situationships, reading our bad poetry at the strip club, and getting our eggs kidnapped by the hookup in 1994’s EXOTICA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 26/01/2026

Anime Club is back in session! This time, we discuss letting your passions consume you, movies keeping the audience at emotional distance, and the necessity of fiercely kissing your athletic rivals in 2025’s 100 METERS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 22/01/2026

This week on the podcast, we yap about horse-sized containers of morphine, egregious de-ghouling, and which controlled substances are safe to feed to ducks in 1998’s HUSH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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Swimfans @swimfanspod.com · 15/01/2026

This week on the show, we talk hunting spouses for sport, retaining the power of your strongest scenes, and choosing more than one cliff to do insurance fraud from in 2018’s WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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