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Podcasts and video essays about history, politics, faith, media, and the internet made by Josiah Sutton and friends. Artwork by Kipp Paulsen. @josiahwsutton.bsky.social

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Ultimate Sabotage Today (MX #21) | Fruitless Get more from Fruitless on Patreon

Link: www.patreon.com/posts/152401...

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album art for Sabotage

album art for Sabotage

album art for Ultimate Success Today

album art for Ultimate Success Today

both album arts together

both album arts together

NEW MUSIC EXCHANGE! This week, Josh and I discuss Ultimate Success Today by Protomartyr and Sabotage by Black Sabbath. Check it out on the Patreon!

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MarΓ©chal, Nous VoilΓ ! | Fruitless | Episode 81 On today's episode, Chris Barker and Josiah discuss Claude Chabrol's 1993 documentary, The Eye of Vichy, co-written by historian Robert O. Paxton. They talk about France under Nazi occupation, the reg...

Link: share.transistor.fm/s/e9586b7a

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NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! Chris and I discussed the 1993 documentary, The Eye of Vichy, directed by Claude Chabrol and co-written by Robert Paxton: a film exploring propaganda footage produced by the collaborationist French government. Available wherever you get podcast.

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i'm sorry, but runza is terrible

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The Hardest Men in Florida (FSC #3) | Fruitless Get more from Fruitless on Patreon

Link: www.patreon.com/posts/151286...

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Ilian Malinin falling

Ilian Malinin falling

The disgusting Runza Sandwich

The disgusting Runza Sandwich

the Canadian curling team

the Canadian curling team

Iowa and Nebraska basketball players

Iowa and Nebraska basketball players

NEW FRUITLESS SPORTS CORNER ON THE PATREON!!! We talk Winter Olympics. We decide what the most libertarian sport is. We talk about Nebraska being a bad state. Also the Super Bowl. All this and more on the Patreon for a mere $3/mo.

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The Occupied Twin Cities | Fruitless | Episode 80 On today's episode, Leo Dickenson and Josh Christianson join Josiah to discuss Operation Metro Surge and the fraud crisis that the Trump regime has used to justify the occupation of the Twin Cities.Β B...

Link: share.transistor.fm/s/4d40068c

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NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! On today's episode, Leo Dickenson and @gnomechamsky.bsky.social join me to discuss Operation Metro Surge and the fraud crisis that was used as pretext to occupy the Twin Cities. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Occupied Twin Cities | Fruitless | Episode 80 On today's episode, Leo Dickenson and Josh Christianson join Josiah to discuss Operation Metro Surge and the fraud crisis that the Trump regime has used to justify the occupation of the Twin Cities.Β B...

Link: share.transistor.fm/s/4d40068c

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NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! On today's episode, Leo Dickenson and @gnomechamsky.bsky.social join me to discuss Operation Metro Surge and the fraud crisis that was used as pretext to occupy the Twin Cities. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Such a great conversation!! For the longest time I didn't think I vibed with French New Wave, but then I really got into Truffaut's movies. The Doinel series especially is just so good, could easily spend hours more talking about them.

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Into the Antoineverse (feat. Bryan Cebulski) | Fruitless | Episode 79 On today's episode, Bryan Cebulski joins Josiah to discuss FranΓ§ois Truffaut's Antoine Dionel saga--a series of five semi-autobiographical films following Truffaut's life from troubled child, to horny...

Link: share.transistor.fm/s/3eea1f2d

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NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! On today's episode, I was joined by @bryanonion.bsky.social to talk about FranΓ§ois Truffaut's series of semi-autobiographical films, the Antoine Doinel saga. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Go subscribe to the Rock Hard Caucus Patreon to hear me Talk Shat

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We started a new series called Talking Shat! For the first installment, we discussed two episodes of Invasion Iowa (filmed in Riverside, IA) with our friend @josiahwsutton.bsky.social.

Check out the new episode and get all future episodes at patreon.com/rockhardcaucus

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1000 Bows + Arrows (MX #20) | Fruitless Get more from Fruitless on Patreon

NEW EPISODE OF THE MUSIC EXCHANGE! This week, Josh and I discuss Bows + Arrows by The Walkmen and 1000 Hurts by Shellac. Check it out on the Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/149171...

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Welcome to 2026 (Part Two) | Fruitless Get more from Fruitless on Patreon

Link: www.patreon.com/posts/147927...

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Stavros Halkias as a cop in Bugonia

Stavros Halkias as a cop in Bugonia

the Star Wars Theory guy

the Star Wars Theory guy

A masked ICE agent

A masked ICE agent

NEW PATREON EPISODE! We continue the New Year tradition of low effort episodes. @greezymoney.bsky.social and @cigaretteliker.bsky.social join me, and @gnomechamsky.bsky.social later on, to mostly talk about movies. And some current events. Available on the Patreon for $3/mo.

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Welcome to 2026 (Part One) | Fruitless | Episode 78 It is a tradition now to kick off the new year with a low effort episode so that I can recover from the holidays. So this year, Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer join Josiah to hang out and talk about ...

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picture of Maduro

picture of Ruben Amorim

picture of Ruben Amorim

picture of a can of Stone IPA

picture of a can of Stone IPA

NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! As is tradition, we kick off the year with a few low effort episodes because I'm very tired from the holidays. Chris and Jake join me to do a long cold open about craft beer and coffee before discussing the abduction of Maduro and some sports stuff.

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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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Angelic Holiday Guidance (feat. Phil Cozzi) | Fruitless Get more from Fruitless on Patreon

Link: www.patreon.com/posts/146548...

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The poster for The Bishop's Wife

The poster for The Bishop's Wife

Cary Grant and Loretta Young looking at each other longingly, while David Niven raises an eyebrow

Cary Grant and Loretta Young looking at each other longingly, while David Niven raises an eyebrow

Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven sitting in the back of a cab.

Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven sitting in the back of a cab.

The poster for The Bishop's Wife, but with an extra tagline added at the bottom, "Have you heard about Cary and the Bishop's wife?" with David Niven looking cucked.

The poster for The Bishop's Wife, but with an extra tagline added at the bottom, "Have you heard about Cary and the Bishop's wife?" with David Niven looking cucked.

THE LAST EPISODE OF 2025 IS HERE. On the Patreon, Phil Cozzi joins me to discuss The Bishop's Wife (1947), a Christmas movie about an angel teaching a workaholic Episcopal bishop to be nice to his wife.

This and more, available on the Patreon for $3/mo.

See you all next year!

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Incredible

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This is what people are demanding. This is the kind of content they crave

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If you are a @fruitlessmedia.bsky.social patron you can hear me yelling for nearly 6 hours today about Christmas music and Kevin Smith, if you want.

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Descending Into Kevin Smith's Hell | Fruitless | Episode 77 This is the last episode of 2025 on the free feed. Josh, Alien, and Josiah take you on a journey through Kevin Smith's filmography. I'm so sorry that we're ending the year on this note.Become a Fruitl...

Link: share.transistor.fm/s/484a8c55

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FOR THE LAST FREE EPISODE OF 2025, @gnomechamsky.bsky.social, @stewiegriffindj.bsky.social, and I decided to tackle the filmography of Kevin Smith. I'm so sorry.

Available wherever you get your podcast.

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Oh hell yeah! This is going to be a good one.

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