S4E28: Bicycle Thieves
Added 2025-12-12 11:59:54 +0000 UTCIt's our final heist movie of the year, and it's time to flip the script a little. A union man in immediate postwar Italy is assigned a job putting up posters. The pay is enough to finally give his family some stability, but it requires a bicycle. When his bike is stolen on his first day, he and his remarkable young son search through the markets and back alleys of Rome to find it.
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FREE PALESTINE
Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can.
-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine
https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity
-Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla
https://www.waterislifegaza.org/
-Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also
https://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848
-Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza
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Comments
I am reminded of this line from Synecdoche, New York: “There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They’re all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.”
NowhereMan661
2026-01-14 00:47:25 +0000 UTCUhhh, did anyone else catch November's "Why didn't I think of that" line when they joke about Bruno just saying no to the pedophile? An I overthinking this?
NowhereMan661
2026-01-14 00:31:16 +0000 UTCCan't believe I'm about to go all "as a black person" but I just don't think this movie deserved a 2 for omission on cultural insensitivity, especially since you gave it a 1 for misogyny (where I think Nova had a point)
untitledearth
2025-12-23 23:55:10 +0000 UTCI need kjb bad lieutenant 2 in the new year
ConkedCrete
2025-12-19 00:20:30 +0000 UTCthank y'all so much for exposing me to a bunch of movies i would have never seen without this podcast. Sexy Beast and Topkapi were absolute bangers. now, i am _pleading_ with y'all, before Heist Season ends, please do David Mamet's 2001 _Heist_ with Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Danny DeVito and a bunch of other guys you love to see, walking through a bizarrely intricate plot and spouting the most head-scratching unnatural and yet utterly ingenious dialogue at each other. it's so good. you have to see it. Tim Rogers loves it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cliSJ5splwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaJlaK_dg_E&list=PLLBxmuPY0SHlo7fDl2DLOWRVG91IzBuj1&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9cvJie4yFc
postrodent
2025-12-17 04:00:38 +0000 UTC
