HeyJaredThe Story Punk Podcast
A weekly deep dive, script to screen analysis of everything from streaming gems to current theatrical disasters. We break it all down!Content warning: podcast contains subjective humor, wry sarcasm, and strong opinions.Story Matters!
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Interstellar (2014) with Scott and Drew (opens the original)
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Episode 055: This week on Story Punk, we continue our recent Christopher Nolan streak by going back to his 2014 science-fiction epic starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, and John Lithgow. Earth is slowly becoming uninhabitable, humanity is running out of options, and former NASA pilot Cooper is asked to leave his family behind and travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for the human race. Simple enough, except every d
The Odyssey (2026) PART 2 with Scott and Drew (opens the original)
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Episode 054 (PART 2): Our journey through Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey continues, and this time we’re getting into the technical aspects and theatrical presentation. In Part Two, we pick up where we left off and dig into how Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema pulled off a movie of this scale, including the decision to shoot the entire feature with IMAX cameras. We talk about what that actually adds to the experience, how the movie feels different on a standard screen, and whether you
The Odyssey (2026) PART 1 with Scott and Drew (opens the original)
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Episode 054 (PART 1): How do you take a story people have been telling for thousands of years and turn it into a Christopher Nolan movie? This week on Story Punk, we start a two-part deep dive into The Odyssey, Nolan’s massive 2026 adaptation of Homer’s epic, with Matt Damon as Odysseus. After ten years at war, Odysseus is finally trying to get home to Ithaca, his wife, his son, and the life he left behind. Of course, this is The Odyssey, so getting home involves monsters, temptation, violence,
Rebel Ridge (2024) with Scott and Drew (opens the original)
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Episode 053: This week on Story Punk, we kick off a new season and celebrate one year of the podcast with Rebel Ridge, Jeremy Saulnier’s tense, tightly constructed 2024 thriller starring Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, and Emory Cohen. Aaron Pierre plays Terry Richmond, a former Marine riding into the small town of Shelby Springs with a single purpose, post bail for his cousin before it is too late. But when local police seize his cash through civil asset forfeiture, Te
Normal (2026) with Scott and Drew (opens the original)
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Episode 052: This week on Story Punk, we close out Psycho Summer with Normal, Ben Wheatley’s 2026 action thriller starring Bob Odenkirk, Henry Winkler, and Lena Headey. Odenkirk plays Ulysses, an interim sheriff assigned to the quiet town of Normal, Minnesota, a place that seems peaceful, friendly, and almost aggressively ordinary. But after a botched bank robbery exposes something hidden beneath the town’s polite surface, Ulysses discovers that Normal is not just a name, it's a performance. And
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