I Don't Like This Podcast
A podcast about what I like and don't like. For arts and culture lovers. For cranky people. For you, from me, Jack Balderrama Morley @jackbaldmo
Episodes
24 episodes
Thirst trapping, Benedetta, I Love Boosters, Project Hail Mary, and the New World Wave
Thirst trapping is violence! Twitter vs. TikTok, and I rant about people being adults again
Samuel Delany, Hogg, pulp fiction, Mott NYC, and thirty-something gay guys
New microphone!! RejoiceGay guys should be freaks and abolish Interview magazine <3
Maddie’s Secret, food culture, Dogville, and more
Gay guys talking with laptops, Maddie’s Secret, Twitter discourse, food culture, Dogville, depravity of American culture I say Fatal Attraction but mean Basic Instinct!
The Sluts, professionalized creativity, and Shania Twain
The Sluts, professionalized creativity, enshittification of pop music, Shania Twain's In Your Arms, The Corrs' Breathless
Madonna's racial fetish, Padam Padam's legacy, and Mark Rylance
Puerto Rican boys drive Madonna crazy, she says. What's going on there? Did Kylie Minogue give us Brat? It was Mark Rylance who was in the production of Twelfth Night, and he was amazing. Our light summer schedule continues
Dunadonna
Dune and MadonnaI think I was thinking of Chris Cunningham and not Floria Sigismondi, and the line a link to MJ I think was a Janet line from their collab <3
Taylor Swift, gas station sunglasses, and straight guy sinister energy
Taylor Swift, more Michael Jackson, Björk, gas station sunglasses, office siren, gay guys being 38 going on 18, straight guy sinister energy, and so much more
Antoni, Delilah, Riddick, Pokémon gays, Michael Jackson's Invincible, and more
I think a raindrop got on my mic midway through this, but it clears up so stay with us <3We also cover Thuja occidentalis, Hagen Bach, and my angelllboys sighting
An experiment: Jack on the Street
We're taking it to the street! Very hard to hear me, but perhaps it's atmospheric. We talk about menswear, bombing a school in Iran, Bound, being a gay barfly, and Joe Haldeman.
Native plants, Bowen Yang, jockstraps
Native plants, Bowen Yang, fawnslop, gay people should be meaner, the Rush Limbaugh of f***, and jockstraps I am uploading this days after I recorded it, sorry to keep Jack Heads waiting <3
Biden ghouls, Catherine Liu, and the Below Deck chef’s accent
Biden ghouls, Jazz (the dog), the Summer House men’s grooming, Catherine Liu, and the Below Deck chef’s accent
Gen Z, little microphones, and reality TV gays
Little microphones, Gen Z, reality TV gays, Southern Hospitality, Madonna, and are mustaches glib?
The sinister energy, Crash, "profound" fiction, and Evelyn Waugh syndrome
Sinister energy, Crash final verdicts, the Evelyn Waugh funny or literary syndrome, and some thoughts on what fiction needs to do, why not
(G)libslop miasma and the criticism boom
This is a shorter episode about libslop, glibslop, the criticism boom, and not much more. <3
Fourth Wing, millennial irony, and Dodie Bellamy
Fourth Wing, straight women, millennial irony, and Dodie Bellamy
Gay guys, the Lower East Side, and persuasive fiction
Gay guys, the Lower East Side, persuasive fiction, Confessions, and testing a different mic, which I think I don't like
Straight people, Infinite Jest, and Douglas Martin
Straight people, Summer House, more Infinite Jest, and Douglas Martin
Artemis II, Crash, and 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple
Toned down this week because we're weaning off caffeine: Artemis II, Crash, big books, and 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple
Video! Plus New York nightlife and people in a hurry
This week we experiment with doing a video episode. Did it work? You decide! Also, Baffler article about being a writer, Helen DeWitt, attacks on Lebanon, New York City nightlife, a Hell's Kitchen-aissance, and people in a hurry
American military
Putter patter, Jack on Jack, the American military, politics podcasts, the Sofia Coppola Marc Jacobs documentary, Billy Corgan and Courtney Love on Kim Gordon, I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter