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KYAG #4 - Rocky Jordan - The Strange Death Of Van Dorn

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you. 

KYAG#3 - The Man from Homicide - The Wee Willie Barnes Case

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you. 

KYAG #2 - Jeff Regan Investigator - Theres Nothing Like A Pork Chop When Supper Rolls Around

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you. 

KYAG #1 - Broadway Is My Beat - The Val Dane Murder Case

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you. Hope you're doing okay...

Epilogue: Cremation of Sam McGee

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"when you build a house make sure you can get a coffin out of it"  

Calling All Units - BURN EVERYTHING TRUST NO ONE KILL YOURSELF: Lingua Ignota

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"It was crushing my head and they were using sonic pressure continually. Then when I had three meetings with Ms. Philicorda on it, every meeting I had...

#52 - Author: Richard Stark

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"In [America], nothing is greater or more brilliant than commerce; it attracts the attention of the public and fills the imagination of the multitude:...

Calling All Units - The Reason They Hate Me

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is what they think about you. Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podca...

#51 - Author: Charles Willeford

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"I want to be a vampire. I kind of want to be evil." - Kim Kardashian Miami Blues - 1990 - George Armitage Cockfighter - 1974 - Monte Hellman Sponso...

Calling All Units - Walt Flanagan's Dog

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I was a teenage Kevin Smith fan. Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast...

#50 - Author: Patricia Highsmith

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"But these musings, far from emboldening the mask, had the effect of demonstrating the treacherous impassibility of the deep channel that separated me...

Calling All Units - Nomeansno

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nomeansno

#49 - Author: Kanae Minato

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"There is no syllable one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror, that is not, in one of those languages, the mighty name of a god." ...

Calling All Units - Personal Shopper

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"You realize that to experience the projected figures on the movie theater screen as life-size involves the reduction of your own body to the size of...

#48 - Author: Chester Himes

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"If it's drowning you're after, don't torment yourself with shallow water" - Proverb Cotton Comes to Harlem - 1970 - Ossie Davis A Rage In Harlem - 1...

Calling All Units - Frederick Wiseman And The Documentary

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I talk about some Frederick Wiseman and make some general observations about what the word and form documentary actually means. Sponsor: peoplewatchi...

#47 - Author: JG Ballard

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"They ain't tripping on me, they wanna fuck my car When you look at my chrome and you lick your lips It's just like I'm rubbing my dick between your h...

Calling All Units - I Have No Blood On My Hands. I Have Blood On My Hands.

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A man on Youtube exposed a paedophilia ring operating on the platform on a large scale, right out in the open. Youtubers have spent the last week open...

#46 - Author: Georges Simenon

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter; and, as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purpose, let us treat it aestheticall...

Calling All Units - Sure, Old Time Radio

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A moment of happiness leads me to talk about how old time radio detective stories have given me an embarrassing amount of solace. Sponsor: peoplewatc...

#45 - Author: Maj Sjöwall And Per Wahlöö

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Q: Serial murders have become more prevalent in American Society. Are you very interested in them? Dennis Cooper: To a degree. I don't think that the...

Calling All Units - Vine: Look at all these chickens.

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is why mom doesn't fucking love you. Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/u...

#44 - Author: Ed McBain

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"The abilities of a humble scholar, seeking only knowledge Are crushed by the tyranny of a fool, bent under the weight of his wealth. The proper hiera...

Calling All Units - At Times Inactivity Is Preferable To Mindless Functioning.

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Is [pop star] a feminist? Is MasterCard a queer ally? Is this tv show my friend?" - Annelise Ogaard Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: allunitspodcas...

#43 - Author: Jim Thompson

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"When you bond yourself to suffering you can't live without causing suffering—this way of life can't survive without torture, murder, terror, war an...

Calling All Units - A Memory Is A Loaded Gun And I Remember Everyone (Dorohedoro Part 3 of 3)

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by cultural critic and writer Tara Hillegeist to tackle the enormity of her experience with Dorohedoro and through the lens of her own exp...

#42 - Franchises: Sherlock Holmes

27 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"We also knew that a knife was not found at the scene. We don't know where the knife came from or where it went, so whoever did this took the knife aw...

Calling All Units - Art Resistant To Discussion (Dorohedoro Part 2 of 3)

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by excellent artist and wonderful podcaster Will Simpson to talk about the art, and much more, of Q Hayashida's Dorohedoro. Sponsor: peop...

#41 - Franchises: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

13 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"I never knew how to be scared, just how to handle my infra-red. I love nothing: made my barber write a "Fuck You" in my head." - Z-Ro I am joined by ...

Calling All Units - Not Streaming But Drowning

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Abuse of power comes as no surprise. FilmStruck shut down. What does "just a website" mean? Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: [email protected]...

#40 - Franchises: Battles Without Honor and Humanity

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"But time passed, and my motivations evolved." - Christoper Kemp, Floating Gold Battles Without Honor and Humanity - 1973 - Kinji Fukasaku Battles Wi...

Calling All Units - Introducing Comics (Dorohedoro Part 1 of 3)

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dorohedoro is what it feels like to read comics for 25 years. Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https:...

#39 - Franchises: Penitentiary

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Just as the examples of necessary violence are innumerable, so are acts of brutality; since brutality always steps in to oppose violence-by which I m...

Calling All Units - Three Sex-Repulsed 80s Genre Films

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I'm joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about three genre films from the early 80s that thrum with deep-seated disgust and fear of sex. This kind of thing...

Calling All Units - Three Sex-Repulsed 80s Genre Films

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I'm joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about three genre films from the early 80s that thrum with deep-seated disgust and fear of sex. This kind of thing...

#38 - Systems: Digital

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"It is reasonable to suppose that a society thoroughly committed to making artificial realities would have given a great deal of thought to the nature...

Calling All Units - The Lost Commandments of the Internet

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by Frank Lantz to discuss his wonderful article The Lost Commandments Of The Internet and mourn the kind of communication fostered by mess...

#37 Systems - Bureaucracy

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With guest Mairead "The proper hierarchy has been reversed; How sad that the lion is made servant to the dog" - George N. Roerich, The Blue Annals Sp...

Calling All Units - Some Instances Of Physical Pain I Have Experienced

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"No doubt, leave a rapper in a body cast And wonder what he was doing while we was in a karate class Snotty ass, it's really like he was a white-belt ...

#36 Systems - Patriarchy

04 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With guest Lucy Brady from Wyrd Signal "it's my means of survival" - Bata Motel, Crass Fata Morgana - 1966 - Vincente Aranda Invisible Adversaries ...

Calling All Units - Mandy

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about Panos Cosmatos' Mandy and the many adjectives it seems to attract. Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: allun...

#35 - Systems: Mutually Assured Destruction

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"There's nothing that people rebel more against, I told jacques, than being forced to acknowledge the secret and immediate power their fellow human be...

Calling All Units - All God's Children Will Get Burned

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by Chris to talk about the kind of fan sites that existed before social media websites blended everything into a grey paste. Read the pos...

#34 - Verbs: Haunt

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With guest Rosie (from The Shadow Trap podcast)  "Just heard "Orinoco Flow" in the supermarket, which reminded me of one of my favorite things anyon...

Calling All Units - Parasocial Relationships

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I am joined by video essayist Shannon Strucci to discuss the mammoth second entry in her Fake Friends series: FAKE FRIENDS EPISODE TWO: parasocial he...

#33 - Verbs: Recreate

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With guest Lisa Cassidy "Maps have three basic attributes: scale, projection, and symbolization. Each element is a source of distortion. As a group, t...

Calling All Units - They Are Sitting In A Room

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Similar to the one I am sitting in now.  ​​​​​​​Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https:/...

#32 - Verbs: Investigate

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"To be an alien, to be in exile, is the mark of Christian suffering" - Soren Kierkegaard I As In Icarus - 1979 - Henri Verneuil The Emperor's Naked A...

Calling All Units - Our Playlist Could Be Your Life

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Lofi hip hop mix - Beats to Relax/Study to Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us...

#31 - Verbs: Murder

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"The cinema was not employed to flee reality, but to transform one's encounter with it through its radical juxtaposition with the cinematic." - Andrew...

Calling All Units - The Day Everything Became Nothing

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Zero. Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id1241776225?mt=2

#30 - Verbs: Avenge

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"It was autumn, and we could smell the wine of apples rotting into the ground." - Joshua Weiner Emma Mae- 1976 - Jamaa Fanaka Deadbeat At Dawn - 1988 ...

#30 - Verbs: Avenge

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"It was autumn, and we could smell the wine of apples rotting into the ground." - Joshua Weiner Emma Mae- 1976 - Jamaa Fanaka Deadbeat At Dawn - 1988 ...

Calling All Units - Found out. A nothing player.

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Pie is an inside job. Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/al...

#29 - Verbs: Pursue

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"I have said the map was the most of the plot. I might almost say it was the whole." - Robert Louis Stevenson Vice Squad - 1982 - Gary Sherman Nowhere...

Calling All Units - IF THIS KNOWLEDGE SCARES YOU THE EQUATION IS WORKING

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

RAMMΣLLZΣΣ Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id12417762...

#28 - Performances: Sheryl Lee

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"We know these painted coffins from the engravings of Posada. Our movie screen knows something similar. " - Sergei eisenstein, Memuary Love, Lies, Mu...

Calling All Units - But Why

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What are you trying to organise yourself around? Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple....

#27 - Performances: Nigel Patrick

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is, Curiosity. By curiosity, I mean whatever desire for or whatever pleasure we ta...

Calling All Units - Eat Around It

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ugly delicious.  Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id1241...

#26 - Performances: Sissy Spacek

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"All knowledge, as issuing from reflection, is experimental" - John Dewey Badlands - 1973 - Terrence Malick Missing - 1982 - Costa-Gavras Sponsor: sub...

Calling All Units - Never Trust Anyone Who Makes Up Their Own Nickname

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alliteration is not a political stance. Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/p...

#25 - Performances: Bob Hoskins

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"The mainspring of human activity is generally the desire to reach the point farthest from the funereal domain, which is rotten, dirty and impure. We ...

Calling All Units - Terrible Lie

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Incel: in context.  Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: [email protected] Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id1...

#24 - Navigation: Source Material

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Vernacular postmodernism has dealt with the 'crisis of symbolic efficiency' in a far less intense way than Nick Land, through metafictional anxieties...

Calling All Units - To Make An Idol Of Our Fear And Call It God

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere  Sponsor: subnormality.ca email: [email protected]

#23 - Navigation: Imprisonment

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"But it must not be forgotten that 'politics' has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model...

Calling All Units - Everyone Wants To Play The Guitar, That's Why They Call It The Guitar

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The pulverising mediocrity of the internet of strings. Sponsor: subnormality.ca email: [email protected]

#22 - Navigation: Memory

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"A biography is always constructed from ruins but, as any archaeologist will tell you, there is never the means to unearth all the rooms, or follow th...

Calling All Units - Proust Questionnaire

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Like every single other thing on this podcast and the internet: I tell you it's bad and then do it anyway. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.c...

#21 - Navigation: The Frame

08 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Syllable by syllable, the forgotten vocabulary that they already know: that picture, that knickknack, that painting, that door over there, as if the ...

Calling All Units - A Near Miss

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?" - Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Sponsor: sub...

#20 - Navigation: Confined Space

22 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"I am the idiot who will not be himself: fuck it" - Marilyn Manson, Irresponsible Hate Anthem  Keyhole - 2011 - Guy Maddin The Incident - 1967 - Larr...

Calling All Units - We Have Always Been Here

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It is happening again.  Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gma...

#19 - Navigation: Purgatory

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"I went in; I closed the door. I sat down on the bed. Blackest space extended before me. I was not in this blackness, but at the edge of it, and I con...

Calling All Units - You Fail Me

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A harddrive is dead.  Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail...

#18 - Navigation: Another Place

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information."  ― William T. Vollmann, Lupin the III: The Castle of ...

Calling All Units - How Did You Learn To Be Sick? So Cunning.

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Why Podcasting Sucks In '18: The Money. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: all...

#17 - Navigation: Trauma

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Tragedy is only a way of assembling human misfortune, of subsuming it, and thus of justifying it by putting it in the form of a necessity, of a kind ...

Calling All Units - Manifestation Of Your Sickness

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A YouTuber who caters exclusively to children posted a video of himself giggling beside the corpse of someone who had recently committed suicide.  Sp...

#16 - Navigation: Reputation

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"-I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off. -You read it? -No, he said over his shoulder, but I know the son of a bitch who wro...

Calling All Units - Two E-40 Music Videos

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I talk about two E-40 music videos. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunit...

#15 - Navigation: The Self

14 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"On the screen, love was having its difficulties, its reversals, but it persevered or at least metamorphosed." - The Quick And The Dead, Joy Williams ...

Calling All Units - The Shit In The Air Will Fuck Up Your Face

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

You own things.  Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: [email protected]

#14 - Intoxication: Guns

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed" - Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Plac...

Calling All Units - Sick Day

23 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I'm ill. I could have taken a week off. Instead, I persevered and created this weird ramble which is roughly the same as if I just didn't put out an e...

#13 - Intoxication: Sex

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

" Christ is dead    and the monks are in ecstasy" - Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis Tightrope - 1984 - Richard Tuggle In The Cut - 2003 - Jane Campion Sp...

Calling All Units - Horrorthon Recap

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Capsule reviews of all of the films, around 23?, I managed to catch at this year's horrorthon. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinal...

#12 - Intoxication: Alcohol

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"All of us, in some part or another, are loathsome. We all harbour a crime we've committed, or a crime our soul is begging us to commit" - The Book O...

Calling All Units - Elio Petri Special

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Friend of the podcast Jools (@Joolsd on twitter) joins me to discuss several films from the career of Elio Petri, the underrated Italian director resp...

#11 - Intoxication: Drugs

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"The style of this film is not that of a thriller. Using image and sound, the filmmaker strives to express the nightmare of a young man whose weakness...

Calling All Units - Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise, Tarantinocore, Green Room

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I talk about the Harvey Weinstein stories coming to light, the uselessness of ranked lists, my final ever comment about Tarantino and why I think gree...

#10 - Work: Office Culture

05 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state". —Giacomo Leopardi Outrage - 2010 - Takeshi Kitano Investigation Of A Citizen Above Sus...

Calling All Units - Haunting Maleness, Pervasive Misogyny, Some Nudity Required

28 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A listener's question about the role of masculinity in the thriller and much of the media I tend to cover lead to this episode. As part of the questio...

#9 - Work: Career Opportunities

21 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Various disguises are regrettable but necessary if you're going to make it through the day. " - Rob Wright, Nomeansno Perfect Blue - 1997 - Satoshi ...

Calling All Units - Vigilante, John Carpenter's Command Of Space, Crime Fiction

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I talk a little about a grim Bill Lustig classic before discussing what information struck me anew while embarking on a John Carpenter marathon last w...

#8 - Work: Peter Yates Special

07 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"That is to say: Toward the accomplishment of an aim which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgme...

Calling All Units - TV VS ADHD, Book Recommendations, Favourite Non-All Units Films

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I answer questions about dream logic, adhd impacting on working habits, book recommendations, my favourite films of all time that don't fit into All U...

#7 - Work: Start-Ups

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks." - Stokely Carmichael The Enforcer - 1951 - Bretaigne Windust [Raoul Walsh] T...

Calling All Units - Depressing Media, Keeping Up, Depicting Fists Connecting

17 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I answer some questions about depressing media, watching habits and ways to watch before discussing the technology that is the fight scenes in Destruc...