Blamison are back for a duo episode once again! Jamison and Blake talk about 2016's Holidays the anthology horror film and how deeply inconsistent the movie is while a couple of the segments are terrific and others are conceptually good if not executed well. We zone in specifically on "Father's Day" and "Easter" since we were recording on Easter evening. Really this was just a way for Blake to talk about an article he wrote years ago the "Easter" segment. It's a good episode and we hope you enjoy it as well.

Also discussed: Easter, Jamison's mom's Easter music, child sleep troubles

Clip: Jamison's son Hazel talking about the benefits of beer.

Sound engineer: Justin Wiechic

Blamison is back and this time we get LITERARY. On this episode we have special guest Seth Wieck who just released his debut collection of poetry Call Out Coyote through Wiseblood Books. We talk about his poetry and what it means to be a poet of place. We then turn our attention to the classic Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke. We discuss the nature of prison films, the all-seeing eye of the state, and even Foucault’s Panopticon. Mostly we talk about why this film is a stone-cold classic.

Also discussed: Seth’s parenting hacks, Seth’s flirting with anarchist thought (maybe) and Christ imagery.

Clip: Seth Wieck reads his poem “The Rest are Missing”

Get the book here: https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p172/Call_Out_Coyote%3A_Poems_by_Seth_Wieck.html

Sound engineer: Justin Wiechic

Blamison are back with a new episode! Blake’s pick this episode is 1975’s Breakout with Charles Bronson and Robert Duvall. We discuss the minor parts of the film that do work (mainly Bronson) and the large parts of the film that are heavy in their cringe factor. We also discuss that there really is no main character in this movie as no one really has a character arc.

Also discussed: tornadoes, rough kid days.

Clip: Greipur’s Icelandic prison joke.

Sound Engineer: Justin Wiechic

Blamison are back with a new episode! On this episode we cover the debut feature from John Hillcoat Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (1988). We discuss the experimental nature of the film and how it achieves is commentary about prison life effectively by way of its pacing, its seeming banality and its indifference to temporal setting. It’s a fun discussion about a pretty inaccessible film.

Other items discussed: Shia Labeouf, Montana music festivals, knitting influencers

Clip: Matt Berry & Peter Capaldi on Letters Live

Blamison are back to discuss Blake’s pick! We dig into the little known (sort of) sci-fi 90s film Wedlock from 1991 starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen and Mimi Rogers. We talk about the utter ridiculousness of the setup to this film and the moments it still gets right nonetheless. Plus, we get to see Rutger Hauer in full dad bod mode!

Also discussed: getting fat from not running and *not* being vegan.

Clip: T-Pain Freakout on Dope-Ass Rappers

Sound engineering by Justin Wiechec.

Blamison is back with a regular episode! Jamison picked the movie for this episode due to living high on the hog as a teen when he purchased a DVD copy of the 2001 German film Das Experiment from a dying Hollywood Video in Paradise, CA. Blake has to settle for a shiny, ripped and AI-translated German language YouTube version of the movie which he found to be oft confusing. Turns out from our discussion, it was likely just as much the movie as the AI translation. We talk about the Stanford Prison Experiment which the book the movie was based on was loosely based on—yeah, read that sentence and make sense of it!

Other items discussed: life, kids, snowfall and injured legs.

Clip: Men in Tights “Welcome…to the Dungeon!”

Sound Engineer & Producer: Justin Wiechec

Jamison and Blake are back with our year-end game and ranking of our podcast film selections! Jamison came up with a most excellent game to achieve our final ranking on the year. It is called Fantasy Celebrity. Here are the rules:

1. We each come with a list of 10 favorite movies from FBF 2025.
2. Flip a coin to see who chooses first.
3. Alternate choosing celebrities untill each person has a team of ten.

Active play:

1. Starting with position 10 and moving down to 1...
2. Draw a question at random from the stack. We read it and each choose a person from our team to battle for dominance.
3. Send the question and options to ChatGPT and have it decide which celebrity is more likely. The person who submitted that celebrity wins that round.
4. The winner of the round gets to place the movie of their choice in the position we are fighting for
5. Retire the celebrity chosen and continue the game moving one position down.

Movie Makers:

1. Will Ferrell
2. Kiera Knightley
3. Jaime Lee Curtis
4. Morgan Freeman
5. Mel Gibson
6. Martin Scorceses
7. Jim Jarmusch
8. Jordan Peele
9. Will Patton
10. Bong Joon Ho
11. LaKeith Stanfield
12. Sinbad
13. Dean Cain
14. Judi Dench
15. Glenn Close
16. Michael Bay
17. Jean Claude Van Damme
18. Kiefer Sutherland
19. Richard Kelly
20. Kelly Reichardt

Question Bank:

1. Who will be uncanceled in 2026?
2. Who will make a terrible cake in 2026?
3. Who will befriend a bird in 2026?
4. Who will be the first to cry by onion in 2026?
5. Who will knit their underwear in 2026?
6. Who will read their first book in 2026?
7. Who will be the first to eat 25 subway sandwiches in 2026?
8. Who will eat an orange and declare it the best orange they have ever had in their life in 2026?
9. Who will be outed as three kids in a trenchcoat in 2026
10. Who will hold the most potato chips in 2026?

AND HERE IS OUR FINAL RANKING FOR FLY BY FILMS 2025:

10. Northwest Mounted Police

9. Joker 2

8. House of Wax

7. The Meteor Man

6. Eureka

5. Horror Express

4. House on Haunted Hill

3. Brute Force

2. Hollywood Shuffle

1. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among Thieves

Clip: "My 3 year old must argue and debate everything!"

Sound Engineer & Producer - Justin Wiechec

Blamison are back just in time to then quit for the year! Jamison did not know it during our last Christmas episode, but he started a trend of subjecting each other to the shittiest films from our past. Blake decided to make him watch the 1995 Disney stunner Man of the House starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Chevy Chase. We try to figure out how this film got made and what kind of audience energy it was trying to conjure. Plus, we now have a producer so the episode should sound significantly better with even less effort from your hosts!

Other things talked about: Chevy Chase is an asshole, duck cakes, and Lasik adventures.

Clip: "News blooper: Anchors can't stop laughing at play with yourself line"

Sound Engineer & Producer - Justin Wiechec