La Plancha
formerly ’The Panini Press’. now the internet's pre-eminent ethel cain/bruce springsteen/bong joon-ho podcast.
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Episodes

Jan 20, 2026
Jan 20, 2026
1 hr 45 min
holy fucking fuck
00:00:00 - timmy & michael & bruce & d’angelo & club chalamét
00:09:26 - things kinda suck
00:11:49 - Songs About Jane
00:19:14 - Must Get Out
00:23:21 - The Sun
00:28:16 - Harder to Breathe
00:33:41 - Sunday Morning
00:37:19 - “we’ll ruin it in the mix”
00:41:23 - This Love
00:48:13 - She Will Be Loved
00:55:43 - Shiver
01:06:34 - Tangled
01:12:47 - Secret
01:19:32 - Through With You
01:24:15 - Not Coming Home
01:28:36 - Sweetest Goodbye
01:34:02 - the reason andrew chose this album: idk seemed fun
01:35:36 - ratings
01:41:26 - allison’s pick for next time (Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”)

Dec 24, 2025
Dec 24, 2025
2 hr 32 min
does anyone know how to get logic to stop giving me the disk too slow/system overload error message? i already have the buffer size cranked, please help!!!!
00:00:00 - HEY BAND! Y’ALL KNOW WHAT TIME OF YEAR IT IS???
00:21:53 - the end of the thin white line
00:23:57 - andrew’s album ranking
00:28:17 - allison’s album ranking
00:31:16 - trevor’s album ranking
00:36:07 - allison’s top 10 songs
00:44:11 - andrew’s top 10 songs
00:49:06 - trevor’s top 12 songs
01:00:17 - kitty’s brack (round of 64)
01:40:30 - there’s a bracket on the edge of town (round 32)
01:52:47 - ne-bracket (sweet 16)
02:01:38 - wild billy’s bracket story (elite 8)
02:06:59 - bracklands (final 4)
02:14:56 - brackstreets (championship round)
02:21:26 - the next series
02:26:04 - goated with the boss

Dec 3, 2025
Dec 3, 2025
1 hr 42 min
the one where nancy reagan takes us higher (within the first 2 minutes)
00:00:00 - nancy get yr gluck
00:05:15 - pussy flowers
00:08:01 - Magnolia
00:19:51 - paul thomas allison
00:26:57 - the battered soul and the christian cop
00:33:38 - so much love to give
00:36:30 - the cruise missle
00:40:57 - playing matchmaker
00:44:07 - PSH = GOAT
00:46:46 - maxing out yr blank check
00:58:53 - dancing monkeys on a game show
01:08:30 - trim the fat (i.e. fire all the fat people)
01:18:54 - allah teen akbar force
01:25:35 - tooth talk
01:29:03 - aimee aimee aimee
01:31:06 - ratings
01:36:54 - the sex talk
01:38:21 - andrew’s pick for next time (Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane)

Nov 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025
2 hr 36 min
i watch poooooooorn with the keyword "gay"
the little girl counter's final tally is 26
00:00:00 - donald trump fellated bill clinton
00:02:13 - eye contact or no eye contact?
00:05:34 - the story so far
00:19:54 - Born in the USA
00:28:23 - an album of multitudes
00:33:40 - the future is now old man
00:38:17 - nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to go
00:55:20 - promise me, baby, you won’t let them find us
1:01:26 - today’s yr lucky day for sure alright
1:08:08 - someday mister, i’m gonna lead a better life than this
1:15:07 - all it ever does is rain
1:26:16 - is he good to you? can he do to you the things that i’ll do?
1:32:59 - close yr eyes and follow yr dreams down
1:38:30 - i miss you, baby. good luck, goodbye.
1:48:32 - when we kiss I can feel the doubt
1:54:16 - in the wink of a young girl’s eye
2:00:54 - have a laugh on me
2:09:48 - there was nothing you could do
2:19:00 - ratings
2:25:53 - the aftermath

Nov 17, 2025

Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025
1 hr 28 min
ho-in' around again
00:00 - the durxie churx
06:49 - The Host
21:26 - stupid people, good people
28:48 - the self aware shuffle
33:48 - a killer vagina in broad daylight
42:40 - one man’s trash is another man’s kino
48:36 - bong joon-ho, action maestro
52:10 - designing the killer vagina
56:19 - the real virus was the friends we made along the way
1:02:11 - a musical comedy of errors
1:05:18 - the most unsettling white man
1:11:18 - committing to the bit
1:23:40 - ratings

Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025
2 hr 30 min
even the boss goes through it sometimes
the little girl counter remains at 21
00:00:00 - in this darkness i will disappear
00:12:18 - an alarming number of little girls
00:13:55 - the story so far
00:32:17 - Nebraska
00:40:30 - i will try to fix you
00:47:56 - they declared me unfit to live
01:00:14 - suicide is badass
01:02:16 - gonna be a rumble out on the promenade
01:09:52 - going electric (43 years later)
01:16:29 - there’s a beautiful full moon rising
01:23:51- prison for 98 and a year
01:29:39 - nothing feels better than blood on blood
01:40:06 - out where the great black rivers flow
01:45:43 - sounds echoin’ all down michigan avenue
01:50:40 - new jersey in the mornin’ like a lunar landscape
01:54:56 - where our sins lie unatoned
02:05:03 - the sun sets behind a weeping willow tree
02:12:35 - ratings
02:19:17 - what happened next: from the edge of the void to the top of the world

Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025
1 hr 40 min
i’m going down to fargo gonna have myself a time
00:00:00 - when trevor met fran
00:06:00 - Fargo
00:23:51 - daring you to have fun
00:28:01 - do you wanna see the (mid)west with me?
00:34:42 - joel and ethan and marge and nietzsche
00:42:31 - howcatchem
00:47:12 - evil wears a vikings jersey
00:56:04 - how do you do fellow kids? *gets brutalized repeatedly*
01:02:38 - move bitch get out da wade
01:10:14 - never met a jerry worthy of respect tbh
01:15:55 - a woodchipper and a funny looking fella
01:21:26 - a 3-minute argument about how to pronounce “bagel”
01:24:20 - the reason allison chose this film: no place like home
01:25:38 - ratings
01:34:58 - trevor’s pick for next time (Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia”)

Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
2 hr 37 min
the chris christie of springsteen albums
the little girl counter currently stands at 20
EDIT: upon further review the little girl counter currently stands at 21
00:00:00 - midpoint vibe check
00:07:06 - the story so far
00:17:14 - The River
00:20:11 - that garage sound
00:28:06 - ride me to the junkyard in my cadillac
00:33:05 - if they put up a roadblock, I'll parachute in
00:38:18 - must be a lonely life for a working girl + mess around, and you'll end up in dutch, boy
00:50:29 - 5 days a week, girl, loading crates
01:04:07 - we're running now, but, darling, we still stand and fight
01:10:13 - it's the last time that she's gonna be riding with me
01:13:18 - the cool of the night takes the edge off the heat
01:16:46 - grow up to dream again
01:19:58 - at night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone
01:32:42 - everybody needs a place to rest, everybody wants to have a home
01:38:38 - she probably got a lousy personality
01:42:45 - bang, bang, baby you're dead
01:44:44 - there's a cute little chapel nestled down in the pines
01:47:02 - i just wanna sleep tonite again in yr arms
01:52:18 - down to where the fields were green
02:03:47 - the restless pull of the price you pay
02:15:27 - i just lay there awake in the middle of the night thinking about...
02:22:47 - ratings
02:30:02 - what happened next: “now i am become woke” and you can’t go home again

Sep 19, 2025
Sep 19, 2025
48 min
would hate for y'all to starve without us so here's some nonsense. bon appetit.


