5 Star Tossers
Playful academic podcast that looks at movies and other cultural objects through the lens of 5 groovy themes: Pervs 'R Us, Beast & Sovereign, Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, Marx Grudge, and What Would Jesus Do?
5 Star Tossers
Latest Episodes
Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson on The Edge of Semblance and Cringe
A callback to our most listened to pod, we compare the comedy stylings of Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson. Having just finished thinking about Keith Raniere from NXIVM, we read Fielder as pervert and Robinson as a fetishist. We think about how ...
Odysseus, Odysseus, oh so Tall, Who is the Wokest of them All?
The Tossers lambaste the hypocrisy of grievance culture on the right. The way that it appeals to identity politics perhaps even more aggressively than the so-called wokeness it maligns. We also discuss Nolan's The Odyssey, it's christianization...
The NXIVM Cult: Lacan's Structure of the Pervert
Wow, an embarrassment of riches here. Pervs R' Us reigns supreme over all the other stars. Pyramid schemes, viral brainwashing tech, the drive unleashed. We read Keith Raniere, the leader of the NXIVM cult, now behind bars, as a fig...
