Bang-Bang Podcast

<p>From the vault! Re-releasing one of our earliest and most popular episodes, with prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Spencer Ackerman. </p><p>Scottish filmmaker Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop, a satire...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>Comedian and podcaster Orli Matlow, who hosts War is Stupid: An Anti-War Podcast About War, joins Van and Lyle for a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>Van and Lyle welcome back Andy Facini, Communications Director at the Council on Strategic Risks, to take on Tony Scott’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>Van and Lyle are joined by writer and educator Eric Stinton, whose combat sports columns for Sherdog and essays for Honolulu...

<p>Van and Lyle are joined by critically acclaimed actor Morgan Spector to revisit Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day, a film that turns planetary annihilation into a distinctly American spectacle. We spend time...

<p>You might know Morgan Spector as the critically acclaimed leading man in The Gilded Age and The Plot Against America. Or for his appearances in Boardwalk Empire, Suits, Homeland, How to Make It In America (one of...

<p>Van and Lyle are joined by Julia Gledhill (of The Un-Diplomatic Podcast and Stimson Center fame) to revisit Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry, Darling, a film dismissed by many critics as a glossy pastiche but better...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>Van and Lyle are joined by historian Graeme Pente to revisit Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot, a Revolutionary War epic that...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>Van and Lyle are joined by film historian Matthew Ellis to revisit Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows, a spare...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>Van and Lyle are joined by historian and American Prestige co-host Danny Bessner to revisit Marco Brambilla’s Demolition Man...

<p>Van and Lyle are joined by returning guest Matt Duss—former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders and current executive vice president at the Center for International Policy—to revisit Sydney Pollack’s...

<p>Do US troops have a threshold for the kind of unlawful order they’re unwilling to follow? If Venezuela wasn’t a breaking point, is Greenland? Can the US have mid-term elections under martial law? Will troops fire on...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>We’re joined by filmmaker and returning guest Kevin Fox to discuss Mamoru Oshii’s Patlabor 2, a film that masquerades as a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com<br/><br/><p>We’re joined by returning guests Sam Ratner (Win Without War) and Andrew Facini (Council on Strategic Risks) to revisit Paul...

<p>Van and Lyle are joined by nuclear weapons and disarmament expert Scott Sagan to discuss A House of Dynamite, the 2025 political thriller that imagines nuclear catastrophe not as spectacle or obvious madness, but as...