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

Jun 1, 2025
Jun 1, 2025
1 hr 16 min
*stares into yr eyes for all 76 minutes and 34 seconds of this episode*
00:00:00 - devil went down to jersey
00:04:07 - Memories of Murder
00:09:17 - the 3 stooges but they’re korean cops
00:19:18 - our best friend song kang-ho
00:25:03 - when violence isn’t enough
00:31:56 - an ordinary killer
00:39:08 - the eeriness of peace and quiet
00:45:32 - jumpscares are cool now
00:57:01 - remember to breathe
01:02:20 - a shark in denim
01:05:00 - the american remake
01:10:23 - ratings

May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025
1 hr 41 min
ooooooh flimsy steve, where did you go, what have you seen
00:00:00 - the time i had dinner with lou reed
00:03:55 - the andrew help hour
00:06:54 - a gorillaz history lesson
00:13:43 - Demon Days
00:19:27 - the right album at the right time
00:27:45 - Dirty Harry
00:33:02 - gorillaz on a balancing beam
00:37:37 - taylor swift, goddess of bridges
00:48:19 - Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
00:50:59 - this could be the start of something new
01:00:48 - Don’t Get Lost In Heaven / Demon Days
01:06:22 - flimsy steve’s flimsy politics
01:14:36 - All Alone
01:15:41 - White Light
01:18:08 - Dare
01:21:26 - Fire Coming Out of the Monkeys Head
01:25:14 - El Mañana
01:28:44 - the reason andrew chose this album: the opening of the musical eyes
01:32:45 - ratings
01:39:21 - allison’s pick for next time (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins)

May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
1 hr 47 min
we call to order the first meeting of this male feminist's support group (no girls allowed)
00:00:00 - daaaaa pope
00:02:51 - the british must be stopped
00:05:56 - wallace & gromit & ralph
00:08:16 - sinners
00:09:16 - a Hole/Courtney Love history lesson
00:16:07 - Live Through This
00:18:30 - artist as subject
00:28:27 - more hooks than a bait shop
00:33:53 - the new girls
00:37:20 - Plump
00:39:55 - riot grrrl
00:54:51 - Rock Star
01:05:52 - Miss World
01:07:47 - where are youuuuuuuu?
01:10:30 - Asking For It
01:20:41 - Jennifer’s Body
01:22:56 - Doll Parts
01:30:08 - could you milk me?
01:33:17 - She Walks On Me
01:37:40 - the reason trevor chose this album: an overdue fascination
01:39:19 - ratings
01:42:42 - andrew’s pick for next episode (Gorillaz - Demon Days)

May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025
1 hr 29 min
y'all mind if a white boy speak a lil KO-REAN?!?!?
00:00:00 - fascism comes to our old neighborhood
00:05:28 - trevor predicts the 2028 election
00:11:45 - trump’s je ne sais quoi
00:15:50 - the beginning of bong
00:22:46 - Barking Dogs Never Bite
00:28:54 - laughing through it
00:39:56 - signature bong rips
00:49:18 - homeless, asian michael myers
00:54:34 - actors acting actorly
00:58:24 - conspiracy vs. stupidity
01:01:13 - capitalist malaise
01:07:53 - my bitch wife*
01:13:19 - my sympathetic wife*
01:14:44 - a true first film
01:21:54 - ratings

Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025
1 hr 31 min
he doesn't wear a thong in this one
00:00:00 - inside you there are two jazz wolves
00:01:01 - james murphy: the third menendez brother
00:02:33 - allison’s cat, chairman meow
00:04:42 - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
00:05:10 - schrödinger’s tim burton
00:08:19 - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (for real this time)
00:25:57 - aesthetic superficiality vs. thematic intent
00:32:32 - biblically accurate squidward
00:34:19 - pinocchio covers nine inch nails
00:38:00 - trevor derails the conversation to mock italians
00:42:22 - pinocchio’s james dean phase
00:49:23 - respecting an imperfect vision
00:58:50 - when the whimsy breaks
01:03:13 - dream casting
01:10:56 - yo, who invited the fuckin cricket?
01:15:45 - stop motion glazing
01:20:32 - marcel the shell curb stomps pinocchio
01:23:22 - the reason allison chose this film: a weeb is born
01:25:19 - ratings
01:28:58 - trevor’s pick for next episode (Hole - Live Through This)

Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
1 hr 38 min
pull on yr wife beater, crack open a monster energy drink, and dive into these diamond eyes
CW: this episode contains references to and discussions about suicide. See below for timing if you wish to avoid.
00:00:00 - neil young tries to kill trevor
00:02:12 - kenny g and the jazz wolf
00:08:16 - faux real: the menendez brothers of pop
00:13:57 - a deftones history lesson (and a sound city detour)
00:21:53 - Diamond Eyes
00:26:07 - you will absolutely literally never escape yr own humanity
00:31:07 - 976-EVIL
00:33:22 - slut metal
00:36:40 - CMND/CTRL
00:41:36 - finding music through video games
00:44:25 - dynamic whiplash
00:47:09 - You’ve Seen the Butcher
00:51:26 - Beauty School (feat. Mike Shinoda)
00:54:21 - Risk
00:59:09 - traversing the metal minefield
01:02:14 - Prince
01:06:50 - Sextape
01:10:46 - forgetting how this podcast works
01:13:45 - the reason andrew chose this album: overthinking/under-being (CONTENT WARNING)
01:22:57 - ratings
01:28:19 - allison’s pick for next episode (“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnochio”)
01:31:42 - glazing 2017
01:35:18 - leftists vs. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Mar 31, 2025
Mar 31, 2025
1 hr 36 min
todaytodaytodaytodaytoday
i consider myselfmyselfmyselfmyselfmyself
the luckiest podcasterodcasterodcasterodcasterodcaster
on the face of the earthearthearthearthearth
00:00:00 - who let the…cats?…IN??
00:02:24 - sneaking into canada
00:05:53 - crash landing revisted
00:10:57 - Eephus
00:18:09 - omnes films: when new englanders discover arthouse
00:22:23 - baseball: america’s greatest export
00:31:06 - the new baseball
00:36:21 - as real as fiction gets
00:44:22 - the rhythm of the game
00:48:20 - dudes rock
00:55:24 - how can you not be romantic about baseball?
00:57:46 - period with purpose
01:01:57 - dissolving the individual into the whole
01:03:57 - livin la vida local
01:07:41 - it’s a beautiful day for a beautiful game
01:11:47 - 2 little things
01:15:32 - picking for nits and coming up empty
01:19:49 - the reason trevor chose this film: the pain of remembering
01:28:23 - ratings
01:34:10 - andrew’s pick for next episode (Deftones - Diamond Eyes)

Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
1 hr 30 min
allison: "...and so ya, that's the story of my 5 year journey to repair my broken relationship with my parents and deprogram them from the cult they'd joined that was brainwashing them into believing in alternative medicine, qanon, and the notion that hitler's art wasn't trash. we've genuinely never been closer and i honestly want to cry just thinking about the fact that after all the pain we went through we came out on the other side closer and stronger than ever before. i'm so excited for what's ahead between us and making the most of the time we're lucky enough to spend together"
andrew: "...hell ya."
00:00:00 - andrew’s edible experience
00:01:38 - when the intro is way shorter than you expect
00:04:15 - why would you ever be a filthy, useless, smooth-brained vikings fan?
00:10:25 - skip to this chapter for andrew being a dumbass in public
00:11:05 - Song One: “Girl Can’t Help It” by Journey
00:14:57 - growing up meen-uh-soht-uh
00:20:53 - Song Two: “He Lives In You (Reprise)” by Jason Raize, Tsidii Le Loka, Ensemble - The Lion King
00:26:35 - an allison history lesson
00:33:57 - Song Three: “You Learn” by Alanis Morissette
00:37:43 - people talk in the background of this chapter, direct yr complaints to allison
00:43:39 - Song Four: “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac
00:45:09 - Film: “Pride and Prejudice” by Joe Wright
00:49:45 - Book: “Babel, or the Necessity of Violence” by R.F. Kuang
00:56:13 - off to fantasyland
01:02:51 - Song Five: “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman
01:03:34 - the pop science lab
01:08:58 - Song Six: “8 (circle)” by Bon Iver
01:11:08 - surviving the hellscape and coming out better (as a lady)
01:17:58 - Song Seven: “My My My!” by Troye Sivan
01:19:09 - you can go and love yrself
01:22:39 - “Inbred” by Ethel Cain
01:25:23 - Luxury Item: soap
01:27:18 - You can only save one…

Mar 17, 2025
Mar 17, 2025
1 hr 20 min
the one where we go back to the cluuuub
00:00:00 - meteorological edging
00:02:07 - francis ford-shadowing coppola
00:03:46 - killing off shia labeouf
00:06:03 - an fka twigs history lesson
00:10:35 - EUSEXUA
00:14:52 - inventing words and operating on yr own terms
00:23:00 - meet the producers
00:26:37 - anger gardner
00:29:57 - Eusexua / Girl Feels Good
00:32:48 - Perfect Stranger
00:35:32 - Drums of Death
00:37:48 - pacing back and forth
00:40:16 - Childlike Things
00:45:30 - Room of Fools / Sticky
00:51:29 - Keep It, Hold It
00:56:17 - 24hr Dog
00:58:22 - when the girl next door tries to be freaky
01:01:20 - stephen a. twigs
01:02:49 - Striptease
01:06:56 - Wanderlust
01:14:11 - the reason allison chose this album: the artist as subject
01:15:46 - ratings
01:18:31 - trevor’s pick for next episode (Carson Lund’s "Eephus")

Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025
1 hr 49 min
the pizza is deep and so is the sadness...
00:00:00 - keep yr woke away from my beer
00:04:26 - dragoons n’ roses
00:06:06 - take 2 (it’s really allison’s fault)
00:08:45 - the betrayal of the chicago bears by the coward andrew gardner
00:14:47 - Song One: “Route 66” by Depeche Mode
00:19:46 - the youth of the south side
00:23:04 - the land of julie delpy
00:25:02 - Song Two: “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder
00:29:43 - music as a superpower
00:36:42 - Song Three: “Message In a Bottle” by The Police
00:43:52 - seems i’m not alone in being alone
00:50:24 - Song Four: “Feel Good Inc.” by Gorillaz
00:53:26 - finding yr own taste
00:56:34 - Book: “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (5th Anniversary Edition)” by Hanif Abdurraqib
00:59:19 - Film: “The Grand Budapest Hotel” by Wes Anderson
01:06:48 - Song Five: “Satellite” by Guster
01:09:48 - going broke for concerts
01:13:10 - Song Six: “Clocks” by Coldplay
01:17:29 - a dose of the stalg
01:22:42 - Song Seven: “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure
01:26:48 - politics for third graders
01:30:34 - the state of protest music
01:32:51 - Song Eight: “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar
01:44:47 - Luxury Item: a laptop (no wi-fi)
01:46:10 - You can only save one…


