Escape Hatch (formerly Dune Pod)

Latest Episodes:

Inherent Vice (2014) Jun 14, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the co-host, producer, and editor of the 70mm Podcast, Slim. We discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s bizarre paranoia noir, Inherent Vice, starring Dune (2021)’s Josh Brolin. We cover the importance of good hygeine, how the current era has us on edge, and debate appropriate drug use.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:56)
Roundtable Discussion (00:12:22)
Your Letters (01:04:09)

Notes and Links

Read the episode transcript! Our transcript is available here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Dune Pod: your one stop shop to get fully prepared for the new Dune movie by delving into the books, as well as the films directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring the cast and crew of the new film. Dune neophytes and historians alike are welcome to join our tribe.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Jun 07, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by co-host of the 70mm Podcast SLASH famous artist, Danny Haas. We discuss the other seminal, ecological sci-fi masterpiece, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. We cover the power of art, the interconnectedness of nature, and how the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:45)
Roundtable Discussion (00:10:55)
Your Letters (01:03:25)

Notes and Links

Check out Danny’s Ferris Bueler Art Print. See the work Danny did for the John Hughes Exhibit here.
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

I Love You to Death May 31, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by cartoonist and co-host of the Film Hags podcast, Melissa Mendes. We discuss the 1990 dark comedy starring Keanu, River Phoenix, Kevin Kline, Tracy Ullman, and William Hurt, I Love You to Death. We cover monogamy in long term relationships, the appeal of true crime, and the enduring legacy of religion in our lives.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:08:38)
Roundtable Discussion (00:18:48)
Your Letters (01:05:24)

Notes and Links

Check out Mel’s webiste. On the site, you can read her comics and buy here artwork. Check it out at mmmendes.com
Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) May 24, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the crew of the Lost Light podcast, Jim Lind and Caleb VanDeren. We discuss the 1986 classic animated sci-fi film, The Transformers: The Movie (1986). We cover the importance of succession planning, debate hair metal, and wrestle with mortality following the traumatic deaths of our beloved icons.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:05:45)
Roundtable Discussion (00:11:37)
Your Letters (01:06:38)

Notes and Links

Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! Dune Pod is a member of TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe comic miniseries. Here’s the miniseries we were discussing with art by the phenomenal Jae Lee! Check it out on ComiXology.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) May 17, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by visual effects superstars from Industrial Light & Magic: Todd Vaziri and Lorelei David. We discuss the 2014 science fiction/time travel banger starring Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow. We cover the time travel sci-fi masterpiece Edge of Tomorrow, including out of control marketing departments, complex interconnected storytelling, and why everyone is wrong about CG.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:06:13)
Roundtable Discussion (00:14:53)
Your Letters (01:26:51)

Notes and Links

Join the Dune Pod Discord Server! Our server is live, and this is the place to hang out with Haitch, Jason, guest hosts, and other friends of the pod. It’s a spot to hang out, talk movies, books, games, whatever. Check out the invite here.
Dune Pod is now a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn! As of the launch of this episode, we’re thrilled to announce that Dune Pod is joining TAPEDECK Podcasts, a collaboration of podcasts, featuring tons of talent you have heard on Dune Pod, including: 70mm (a podcast for film lovers), Bat & Spider (low rent horror and exploitation films), Cinenauts (exploring the Criterion Collection), Lost Light (Transformers comics and movies), Will Run For (obsessing about running), and launching soon, Film Hags (a podcast about movies hosted by four hag friends). Check these pods out!.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher
Dune Pod is a TAPEDECK Podcasts Jawn
Dune Pod is a production of Haitch Industries

Blue Velvet (1986) May 10, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Steph Colbourn and Sophie Shin, from the podcast production studio, editaudio. We discuss David Lynch’s direct follow-up to Dune, his 1986 surreal thriller starring Paul Atreides himself, Kyle MacLachlan, Blue Velvet. We cover the seedy underbelly of Americana, the ways standards have changed since 1986, and how this film inspired the generation of directors that came after it.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:05:39)
Roundtable Discussion (00:13:37)
Your Letters (01:19:31)

Notes and Links

WARNING: this episode includes discussion of sexual assault and violence. Blue Velvet, is an important film, but it does feature sexual assault and violence. We have a serious discussion about that topic, so we wanted to warn you in advance. If you need resources around sexual assault, visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization at RAINN.org or call 800-656-HOPE. You are not alone and we stand with you.
TikTok kids are using Parappa the Rappa to understand consent. They are using the track Parappa the Rapper: Instructor Mooselini's Car Rap.
What if Blue Velvet was a Rom Com? Find out via this awesome trailer.
Blue Velvet film critique article. The article Jason was referring to can be found here.
The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.
Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Excalibur (1981) May 03, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by the Founder and CEO of the online game organizing platform Warhorn, Brian Moseley. We cover Gurney Halleck himself, Sir Patrick Stewart’s very first movie, 1981’s epic sword and sorcery film, Excalibur. Topics include the power of a score to make a movie, the dangers of casting your own children as actors in your movie, and we recite the Charm of Making.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:07:17)
Roundtable Discussion (00:10:51)
Your Letters (00:56:08)

Notes and Links

The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.
Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Interstellar (2014) Apr 26, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Internet thought leader and General Partner at Google Ventures, M.G. Siegler. We tackle Paul Muad’dib himself, Timothee Chalamet’s very first film, Christopher Nolan’s 2014 epic, Interstellar. We discuss the dangers and responsibilities of being a parent, Jason gives a 4 part symposium on the Physics of Interstellar, and we consider just how alike Chris Nolan and Denis Villeneuve truly are.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:05:43)
Roundtable Discussion (00:12:11)
Your Letters (00:56:08)

Notes and Links

Come on TARS! One of the best videos on the Internetz
Check out the truly insane Dune (1984) coloring book. In one of the craziest marketing products ever, someone created a kids coloring book based on Lynch’s movie. Totally inappropriate and bizarre. Images here.
Read Dylan Thomas’ poem, The force that thru the green fuse drives the flower. This is Jason’s favorite poem by Thomas. Read the full poem here.
Read Kip Thorne’s book The Science of Interstellar. Kip explains all of the science of the movie. Buy the book here.
The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.
Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

Malcolm and Marie (2021) Apr 19, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by 2021 podcast rookie sensation and co-host of the Cinenauts Pod, Boom. We discuss our kween, Zendaya, and her sensational performance in the black and white 2 person drama, Malcolm & Marie. We discuss unreliable narrators, aggressive food eating acting, and the dangers of filmmakers tussling with critics.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:05:43)
Roundtable Discussion (00:12:11)
Your Letters (00:56:08)

Notes and Links

This week was the 1 year anniversary of the first Dune image, of Paul walking on Caladan. How far we’ve come! Relive the magic of Timothee’s tweet.
Great interview with Eric Roth on co-writing the Dune (2021) script. Roth said he’d worked with Denis on Arrival and Denis asked him to take a crack at Dune, “And I did, and I wrote a big, full, overwritten Eric Roth draft that had certain things special to me. It needed to be, honestly, cut down and sort of harnessed, and Denis did some of that, and they eventually brought in a writer — I was busy, so they brought in a writer named Jon Spaihts, who is a wonderful writer, who I think kept it grounded. And I think he... I don't want to say Lord of the Rings, but I think it's really pretty spectacular. He’s a visionary of his own kind, Denis.” Read the full interview at Collider.
The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.
Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.

Follow @dunepod on Twitter and Instagram
Music by Tobey Forsman of Whipsong Music
Cover art by @ctcher

True Grit (2010) Apr 12, 2021

Show notes

In our latest episode, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by Product Manager and investor, Merci Grace. We discuss Dune 2021’s Gurney Halleck himself: Josh Brolin, in the Coen Brothers and Roger Deakins’ 2010 western masterpiece, True Grit. We cover complicated Civil War era dynamics, the power of being able to admit you’re wrong, and the dangers of frontier era dentistry.

Chapters

Introduction (00:00:00)
Dune News (00:04:26)
Roundtable Discussion (00:13:28)
Your Letters (01:06:54)

Notes and Links

Hawkeye comic by Matt Fraction & David Aja. This legendary comic run is beautiful and hilarious and the inspiration for the new Hawkeye TV show starring Jeremy Renner [CUE his scat clip!] and Hailee Steinfeld. Get the digital comic here.
Check out the John Milius documentary. It follows the wild man of Hollywood, writer of Apocalypse Now and director of Conan the Barbarian. Also the inspiration for Walter from The Big Lebowski?!? Check out the documentary’s IMDb page.
Godzilla vs Kong did $49M opening weekend ($285M total so far worldwide)! Huge box office hit even with HBO Max Day & Date. A Dune redditor said the trailer for Dune before Kong said, ‘Only in Theaters’, so stay tyuned. Read Deadline’s full story here.
The Skree Dune issue is available now! Pick up this amazing work of loving art now at The Grumpus.
Bushido’s Dune Spotify Playlist. Friend of the show Rich (aka Bushido on Spotify) has built an awesome chill Dune inspired playlist.
Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
See the movies we’ve watched and are going to watch on our Dune Pod Set List on Letterboxd
Dune Pod’s Breaking Dune News Twitter list
Rate and review the podcast to help others discover it, and let us know what you think of the show at letters@dunepod.com or leave us a voicemail at +1-415-534-5211.