For our final episode discussing films about Ernest "Che" Guevara, we watched Walter Salles 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries, an acount of Guevara's eye-opening journey through South America that inspired the revolutionary ideals Che would soon bring to all of Latin America. Also: Other recent watches: Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Dune II (2024), Bones and All (2022), Jodorowsky's Dune (2013), and RATS! (2024); packing the supreme court; Craig celebrates a personal achievement;p and vanguardism and its importance to a revolution.

Hal and Craig watched Steven Soderberg's Che: Part Two (2008), chronicling Che Guevara's time fighting in the Bolivian Revolution and his eventual capture and execution. Discussion also includes:

• Craig's recent trip to Chicago (lots of Cubs and White Sox talk!);

• The Black Panther Cubs and Fred Hampton's legacy of community action;

• Hal's letterboxd list of movies about artistes; 

• Our recent movie watches: IN A VIOLENT NATURE (2024), MARAT/SADE (1967), SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY. (2024);

• Why the Bolivian Revolution failed, where the Cuban Revolution did not.

Hal and Craig watch Steven Soderbergh's Che: Part One (2008), chronicling the life of Argentine Revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his time leading guerilla fighters in the Cuban Revolution. Discussions also include:

• Kendrick Lamar's Pop-Out Concert;

• Yorgos Lanthimos' new film KINDS OF KINDNESS;

• Paul Schrader and his sad, broken men;

• Hal breaks down some troubling new legislation regarding SNAP benefits and food access;

• Book talk! (TENDER IS THE FLESH by Augustina Bazterrica & WHEN THE CLOCK BROKE by John Ganz)