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The H&H Podcast

Hosted by Richard Hanania · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 77 episodes

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Episodes
77
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33m
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40
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Listen Score
26
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51
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About this podcast

Connected to the Richard Hanania Substack. Discussions with Chris Nicholson on war, Rob Henderson on movies, TV shows, and culture, and more. www.richardhanania.com

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About the host

Richard Hanania hosts The H&H Podcast, a news show with 77 episodes published.

Recent episodes

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Dostoevsky Cucks Himself?

Apr 10, 202612m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob and I finally conclude our discussion of Dostoevsky’s Demons. (spoilers below) I’m fascinated by what the author ended up doing to

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Politics as Consolation for Losers

Mar 27, 202612m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob Henderson is back to discuss Part II of Demons. In this conversation, we focus on how “on the nose” the novel seems when you think

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Dostoevsky as Psychologist

Mar 20, 202612m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob Henderson joins me to discuss Part I of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons (1872). The book is conveniently divided into three parts, and s

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Black Masculinity in Its Natural Environment

Feb 12, 202617m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob Henderson joins me to discuss Sinners, which critics and viewers are both raving about. Substack has a new screen share feature, wh

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Vince Gilligan Interviews as the Word of God

Jan 8, 20261h 43m0

Chris Nicholson joins me to talk about Season 1 of Pluribus. This is a completely different conversation than the one I just had with Rob. Chris keeps pointing out, and I agree with him, that the show is probably not goi

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The Righteous Mestizo

Jan 6, 202619m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com I’ve done two previous podcasts on Pluribus: one with Rob Henderson, and one with Chris Nicholson. I didn’t want to choose between them

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The Kim Wexler Theory

Dec 6, 202531m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Chris Nicholson returns after almost two years to discuss Pluribus, up to episode six. He raises some good questions about the directio

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On Being Possessed by the Antihero

Dec 3, 202515m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Tyler Tone joins me to discuss There Will Be Blood (2007), as part of my Paul Thomas Anderson series, which has thus far included One B

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Should You Become a Pod Person?

Nov 16, 202529m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob joins me to discuss the first three episodes of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus, which is now on Apple TV. I started watching because I t

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The End of Nostalgia?

Nov 4, 202512m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Fresh off watching One Battle After Another, I did a livestream review of Boogie Nights with Tyler Tone as part of a series on Paul Tho

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Woke, Pre-Woke, or Post-Woke?

Oct 21, 202513m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Lily Zuckerman joins me again to discuss the new Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another. The movie consciously goes out of

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Leo Strauss Watching Hitler in Modern Germany

Sep 23, 202525m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob Henderson joins me to talk about Look Who’s Back (2015) (watch on YouTube), a German film with the premise that Hitler returns to l

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Default Scripts and Dating as a Checklist

Sep 12, 202521m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Lily Zuckerman is a student at UATX. She suggested we watch Materialists (2025), in which a high-end matchmaker named Lucy Mason (Dakot

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The Challenge of Portraying Sex Work Positively

Aug 19, 202520m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Anora (2024) was hailed by critics as a movie about the empowering nature of sex work (spoilers below and in the episode). Rob Henderso

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Coffee, Cherry Pie, and the Nostalgia Trap

Aug 10, 20251h 29m0

Twin Peaks originally ran for two seasons on ABC from 1990 to 1991. A running joke on the show was that FBI agent Dale Cooper, the protagonist, really liked coffee and cherry pie. He was always complimenting establishmen

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Learning to Embrace Progress and Overcome Guilt

Apr 7, 202527m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob joins me to talk about the last two episodes of Season 3 of The White Lotus. Overall, I found the ending mostly satisfying. But the

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Autogynephilia with Buddhist Characteristics

Mar 24, 202525m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob Henderson joins me to discuss The White Lotus, Season 3, up to episode six. There are spoilers in this conversation, as well as the

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The Two Faces of 리사

Mar 10, 202527m0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.richardhanania.com Rob joins me this week to talk about the first four episodes of Season 3 of The White Lotus. We start off by discussing the Ratliff fam

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"Chadcels" and Incest Dynamics | The White Lotus, S3: E1-E2

Feb 24, 20251h 4m0

I’m joined by my new friend “PhiloSophie” (Substack, X) to discuss the first two episodes of Season 3 of The White Lotus. In previous seasons, I’ve been discussing the show with Rob Henderson. He is traveling this week,

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Into the Dream World of David Lynch

Jan 28, 20251h 26m0

David Lynch recently passed away, so Rob and I decided to honor the legendary director by watching two of his movies, Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2008), and discussing them. We liked the first film, and de

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Who is the host of The H&H Podcast?

The H&H Podcast is hosted by Richard Hanania. The show is categorised under news (science) and has published 77 episodes.

How many episodes does The H&H Podcast have?

The H&H Podcast has published 77 episodes.

What topics does The H&H Podcast cover?

The H&H Podcast regularly covers news, science, social. It sits in the news category, with a science focus.

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Episodes of The H&H Podcast average 33 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.

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