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Golden Boy #8: The Eighth Academy Awards from 1936! (Escapism Invades Hollywood!)

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2197617/open_sms] Welcome to Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast! Join Moronic Logic monthly as Kenny enlists a rotating co-host from an assemblage of interesting and unique voices to watch every movie nominated for Best Picture in a given year and decide who SHOULD have won the Golden Boy. We do EVERYTHING in chronological order at Moronic Logic, so Episode 8 takes us to the Eighth Academy Awards, held in 1936, where Golden Boy host Kenny Cahoon and guest host Brendan Bell must decide which of 12 films is the actual Best Picture. This episode features a discussion on Nazi's and escapism invading Hollywood as Adolph Hitler gains power in Europe.  Join us and join in on the discussion! By the end of the episode only one movie (or more depending on how the discussion goes) will prevail and take home the actual Golden Boy. Brendan Bell is a professional Graphic Designer, shape-shifting musician, artist, and amateur cinephile. In the late 90’s, he left art school to pursue a career in unpopular music. He cut his teeth and other body parts as a singer/percussionist in the (mostly) confusing genre bending band Grüvis Malt, and later played drums in an offshoot project, the action/adventure, garage-prog band Ebu Gogo. He released one album as leader of the sub-regional Gameboy Pop supergroup Jonny Classic and the Classic Johns, and a handful of music including a puppet-based music video with rapper Romen Rok, before going totally solo. He has since released a pair of instrumental albums under the moniker Belll. He received a BFA in Graphic Design in 2009 and started a professional career soon after as an in-house and freelance Designer and Illustrator.  During the Covid lockdown, he realized that the he had been neglecting his love of cinema, and committed to watching as many films as possible moving forward. Since deciding to watch at least a film a day in November 2021, he has seen over 1000, logging and writing reviews of varying length and quality for each of them on the Letterboxd app. What began as a hobby has become a life-affirming mental-health practice. Follow Brendan on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1h5Vv [https://boxd.it/1h5Vv] Listen to music here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UAMzqSkvbK3Z0txoWbQDc?si=20GMUOnYSDWySeLsO4L86A [https://open.spotify.com/artist/4UAMzqSkvbK3Z0txoWbQDc?si=20GMUOnYSDWySeLsO4L86A] https://open.spotify.com/artist/2EYP0ch4BOXIWKJpjnQxng?si=o33mDimBR2aDtNBM4Hkc4w [https://open.spotify.com/artist/2EYP0ch4BOXIWKJpjnQxng?si=o33mDimBR2aDtNBM4Hkc4w] https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xpF42nTpSMC2orAgxYnR5?si=_irc-LnAT6SCi-oxPw47Rw https://youtu.be/sJPTG6YDb1Y?si=YENH0A7yHeRRCv_1 [https://youtu.be/sJPTG6YDb1Y?si=YENH0A7yHeRRCv_1] https://open.spotify.com/album/3lzrOpAi0LqXgHDajMx71w?si=oACwye9NSWe1_PzOOKZfig Golden Boy Soundtrack Intro Music: "Let the Light Shine Through by Reynard Seidel Outro Music: "Through The Light" by Reynard Seidel "Auld Lang Syne" (Piano Version) by Megan Woffard "ottos visa" by bomull "flyttfågel" by bomull "Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125: Ode To Joy" by Traditional Music through Epidemic Sound Did you know this show also has a video version on Youtube where you can see our actual looks of disappointment? It's true- support Moronic Logic here with a like and subscribe- Send Kenny your cat pictures, fan mail, and unsolicited advice here! Also, any other things you think of- WITHIN REASON!  kennycahoon@moroniclogic.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197617/support]

Golden Boy #7 The 7th Academy awards from 1935 (The Taming of The Shrew)

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2197617/open_sms] Welcome to Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast! Join Moronic Logic monthly as Kenny enlists a rotating co-host from an assemblage of interesting and unique voices to watch every movie nominated for Best Picture in a given year and decide who SHOULD have won the Golden Boy. We do EVERYTHING in chronological order at Moronic Logic, so Episode 7 takes us to the Seventh Academy Awards, held in 1935, where Golden Boy host Kenny Cahoon and guest host Sarah Louise Reiter must decide which of 12 films is the actual Best Picture. This episode features a discussion on Hollywood's implementation of the Hays Code, women being taken down a peg, and the rise of the romantic comedy.  Join us and join in on the discussion! By the end of the episode only one movie (or more depending on how the discussion goes) will prevail and take home the actual Golden Boy. Sarah Louise Reiter [https://www.instagram.com/reiterquawriter/] Well educated, unemployed and unemployable Sarah Louise Reiter is the author of "7 Dances for a Secret Self" available on Model City Press. [https://modelcitybooks.com/7dances/] It's a book of memoir, essay and history, an instructional dance memoir designed to summon spirits with a series of traditional popular dances performed in a prescribed order. Part nostalgia, part alchemy. 52 pages perfect bound, color, text and images. Intro Music: "Let the Light Shine Through by Reynard Seidel Outro Music: "Through The Light" by Reynard Seidel "Auld Lang Syne" (Piano Version) by Megan Woffard Music through Epidemic Sound Did you know this show also has a video version on Youtube where you can see our actual looks of disappointment? It's true- support Moronic Logic here with a like and subscribe- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqvLttG0ALeEjnvYfwrNxg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqvLttG0ALeEjnvYfwrNxg] Send Kenny your cat pictures, fan mail, and unsolicited advice here! Also, any other things you think of- WITHIN REASON!  kennycahoon@moroniclogic.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197617/support] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197617/support]

Golden Boy #6 The 6th Academy Awards from 1934 (Depression Strikes Hollywood!)

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2197617/open_sms] Welcome to Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast! Join Moronic Logic monthly as Kenny enlists a rotating co-host from an assemblage of interesting and unique voices to watch every movie nominated for Best Picture in a given year and decide who SHOULD have won the Golden Boy. We do EVERYTHING in chronological order at Moronic Logic, so Episode 6 takes us to the Sixth Academy Awards, held in 1934, where Golden Boy host Kenny Cahoon and guest host Jeff Somerville must decide which of 10 films is the actual Best Picture. This episode features a discussion on who actually should get credit for coming up with calling the awards Oscars, the effects of the Great Depression on Hollywood, and the end of the pre-code era and the beginning of Hollywood censorship.  Join us and join in on the discussion! By the end of the episode only one movie (or more depending on how the discussion goes) will prevail and take home the actual Golden Boy. Jeff Somerville [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgK0FXrnWcE] For over a decade Jeff Somerville was a judge and then director of a screenwriting competition for a New England based film festival. After reading some good, and many, many bad scripts it was time to focus on his own work. One semester of an MFA in a Screenwriting program was quite enough of that for him so he decided he'd rather spend his remaining days educating the youth of America, or at least the youth of a moderately sized town in New England. Jeff also operated a small independent movie theater that prided itself on opening the Best Picture Oscar winner, whether that film deserved to win or not, for the better part of a decade. Today he coaches his daughters' softball teams and finds it a much more fulfilling experience. PS: The one best man speech our fine host Kenny is not proud of is the one he attempted at my wedding. He was co-best man and the plan was for one speech.  He performed admirably given mere seconds to prepare a speech of such magnitude. Intro Music: "Let the Light Shine Through by Reynard Seidel Outro Music: "Through The Light" by Reynard Seidel "Auld Lang Syne" (Piano Version) by Megan Woffard Music through Epidemic Sound Did you know this show also has a video version on Youtube where you can see our actual looks of disappointment? It's true- support Moronic Logic here with a like and subscribe- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqvLttG0ALeEjnvYfwrNxg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqvLttG0ALeEjnvYfwrNxg] Send Kenny your cat pictures, fan mail, and unsolicited advice here! Also, any other things you think of- WITHIN REASON!  kennycahoon@moroniclogic.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197617/support]

The Hitchcock Challenge #5: Easy Virtue (1927)

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2197617/open_sms] Welcome to the fifth episode of The Hitchcock Challenge!  Episode 5 features a deep dive into Hitchcock 's hard to find 5th film, Easy Virtue. This film was restored in 2012 by the BFI but is still UNRELEASED, at least in the states, in that form. But even the restored version is in pretty rough shape, so we are lucky to have what we do of it. The fella's break all of that down in detail in the episode. This episode was made for our YouTube channel MoronicLogic [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiOufC8PY98&list=PLp1n_jwBcHll779NN2HitnE-HiGfR9zJ8&index=5] and is presented here as it originally premiered. Join Kenny, Sam, and Lantz as they watch every movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in chronological order and break them down in extreme detail.  The first ten episodes, covering Hitchcock’s silent career originally premiered (or will premiere) on YouTube as Presenting Alfred Hitchcock. Future episodes will be made with the podcast in mind. This series is about reviving the excitement for these old movies, looking at them through a modern lens and actually challenging ourselves to step away from Netflix and corporate TV we normally love and consume. We do the research on the behind the scenes gossip, break down iconic and less than iconic scenes, give Maguffin reviews and talk WAY longer than anyone else you'll find online. Hitchcock history is discussed and we will add relevant research materials to the episode bio’s for your own further reading! New episodes of The Hitchcock Challenge will appear on the 15th of every month! Recommended Reading! 1. Dan Auiler's Book "Hitchcock Lost The Lost Silent Hitchcock and Frenzy 67 [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hitchcock-lost-the-lost-silent-hitchcock-and-frenzy-67-dan-auiler/1117497859]" available at the link. 2. The Hitchcock Zone.com [https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/The_Mountain_Eagle_(1926)] is THE site for Hitchcock fans looking for comprehensive collections of scholarship and primary sources on all of Hitchcock's films. We love and recommend that site! in particular it will link you to the work of JL Kunhs one of the best and earliest Hitchcock Scholars! (Link to the Mountain Eagle page) 3. "Hitchcock/Truffaut, The Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock" by Francois Truffaut  and  4. Taschen's "Alfred Hitchcock: The Complete Films" edited by Paul Duncan are the two books we lean on the most and should be in the collection of every Hitchcock mega fan! Check out Golden Boy! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOiAIf450SU&t=407s] our Academy Awards retrospective show that premieres new episodes on the first of every month for updates on all things Moronic Logic!  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197617/support]

Golden Boy #5 The Fifth Academy Awards from 1932! (The End of the Jazz Age)

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2197617/open_sms] Welcome to Golden Boy: An Academy Awards Podcast! Join Moronic Logic monthly as Kenny enlists a rotating co-host from an assemblage of interesting and unique voices to watch every movie nominated for Best Picture in a given year and decide who SHOULD have won the Golden Boy. We do EVERYTHING in chronological order at Moronic Logic, so Episode 5 takes us to the Fifth Academy Awards, held in 1932, where Golden Boy host Kenny Cahoon and guest host Toni Fellela must decide which of 8 films is the actual Best Picture. This episode features a discussion on the first tie in Oscar's history, the end of the Jazz Age, and the second to last oscars before the Hays Code kicks in.  Join us and join in on the discussion! By the end of the episode only one movie (or more depending on how the discussion goes) will prevail and take home the actual Golden Boy. Toni Fellela has been teaching college writing for many years now. She has also taught African American literature, the Literature of Fantasy and Imagination and even Business and Technical writing during some rather desperate semesters.  Her major academic interests include American-working class literature and the bildungsroman.  Future goals include becoming a Scrabble hustler and seeing the Northern lights.   She'd like to take this opportunity to promote her son's youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianNestor/videos [https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fc%2FSebastianNestor%2Fvideos&data=05%7C01%7C%7C24d5f97ffd914288318b08dbc8f8b8d4%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638324742796410659%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WxrnhygnY%2Fax2rJLgcgobgqCJ%2B%2F8shzEOGP43qL2Z%2Fk%3D&reserved=0].  Intro Music: "Let the Light Shine Through by Reynard Seidel Outro Music: "Through The Light" by Reynard Seidel "Auld Lang Syne" (Piano Version) by Megan Woffard Music through Epidemic Sound Did you know this show also has a video version on Youtube where you can see our actual looks of disappointment? It's true- support Moronic Logic here with a like and subscribe- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqvLttG0ALeEjnvYfwrNxg [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqvLttG0ALeEjnvYfwrNxg] Send Kenny your cat pictures, fan mail, and unsolicited advice here! Also, any other things you think of- WITHIN REASON!  kennycahoon@moroniclogic.com Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2197617/support]