Shut Up I Love It

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 36: A tense situation during the first Super Mario Bros movie. "Is this show is any good?"

To Jared Culp, LONG-DISTANCE RUNNING is painful -- you can't catch your breath, it is hard on your knees and hips -- but once you get that euphoria, you become addicted and have to do it again. "It's a discipline thing." Jared is a designer, writer, and educator whose work explores modern life and Black domesticity. He directed the short film Cicadas and creates projects across film, design, and writing that examine everyday life. Episode Links: Jared's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website.

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 35: The worst birthday ever. The vaguest biggest life changes you've ever heard about. Discussing writers using AI.

Writer, filmmaker, and comedian Kat Kvas defends SMALL TALK, something that just might be the solution to our lack of connection -- and it doesn't always have to be about the weather. Kat's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Onion, McSweeney’s and more. Her comedic short film, The Interns, premiered at HollyShorts last year and she most recently worked as a Creative Director at Netflix. Episode Links: Kat's IG, Kat's TikTok Kat's Website Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website.

Bryan Chamchoum brings us one of the greatest shows of all time: Genndy Tartakovsky’s PRIMAL Season 3, with the craziest premise ever. Bryan is a game designer and writer who bridges the gap between storytelling and interactive design. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Hayley Gruenspan is an LA-based comedic screenwriter here to shine a spotlight on ANGIE TRIBECA, an insanely hilarious show that came out too early, back when not-very-funny dramedies ruled the television landscape. Episode Links: Hayley's (Private!) IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 34: Meeting up in person for the first time in years. The origin of "Big D". The issues with Partiful. Joe's biggest trophy.

When she’s not writing her first novel or reviewing restaurants around the country for The Infatuation, writer and journalist Anne Loreto Cruz joins us to defend THE LEGEND OF KORRA. An evolution of Avatar: The Last Airbender, TLOK was seen by some as its ugly stepchild and had to prove itself every season just to get another one. Episode Links: Anne's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Shawtane Bowen makes a strong argument as to why Ari Aster's EDDINGTON is the best film of 2025, even if it has left you pissed on ReddIt. Shawtane is a writer, performer, director and a founding member of the comedy group, Astronomy Club. He teaches theater at a small liberal arts college in the middle of Vermont. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 33: Sasha's FIRST and LAST confession at a Russian church. A shocking backlash to Joe's promotion of his Jean Jacket Club.

Writer and Army veteran Rachael B has us rewatch RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (2008), a micro-Dogme (bless us) starring Anne Hathaway that is decidedly not a romcom. Episode Links: Rachael's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 32: Sasha recounts the humble beginnings of Shut Up I Love It & Joe talks about his Jean Jacket Club.

Margaret Kim is a stand-up who’s performed at Westside Comedy Theater and Flappers. She takes a lot of classes -- but her greatest comedy education is the ’80s TV series NEWHART, starring Bob Newhart. Episode Links: Margaret's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Ese Atawo is a Canadian actor and improviser who misses the days when friends told each other the truth -- no matter how uncomfortable. Episode Links: Ese's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 31: Mental health episode. Yoga next to Colin Farrell. Jacuzzi training conference.

Comedian Ken Breese is back to profess his love for the late ’70s, early '80s phenomenon of Japanese ANIME Americanized for U.S. audiences: dubbed and reeditedinto things like Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Turn on TV (or Cameo) and you’ll see David Danipour all over the place -- acting, improvising, thriving. One thing you will not see him do? Deliver a coherent logline for one of his favorite movies, PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006). Episode Links: David's Website David's IG David's YouTube Channel David's X Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Jay Hunter is back to propagate a fascinating theory that the Egyptian Pyramids were actually CHEMICAL PLANTS. The idea comes from Geoffrey Drumm of The Land of Chem. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Thanks to Steven Cohen, we choose to be HOPEFUL ABOUT THE FUTURE, even if it's dumbest thing we'll do all year. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Enter our TOP 5 MOVIES of 2025, with your cinema reviewers Nate Ballard, Joe Cabello and Sasha Feiler. Expect overlaps. Expect surprises. Episode Links: Thread Corner Honeymoon Improv Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Actor David Rodgers and one of the hosts spar over whether Die Hard (1988) is a Christmas movie -- or simply one of the greatest movies ever made. Episode Links: Sasha's Writing Class Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 30: On fleek. 6-7. Not getting the whole eyebrows thing. Great hair, terrible personality.

Holiday spirit courtesy of Jay Hunter -- enter a rewatch of MANDY (2018), a hallucinatory nightmare directed by Panos Cosmatos, starring the one and only Nic Cage. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 29: The Predator Badlands pin that got away. Five long hours at the Apple Store and the disillusion that comes with it.

Disgraced reporter and alleged criminal Damiana Garcia is back with one of the most disturbing episodes yet. Is it about LOUNGE SINGING -- or an idea that will haunt your nightmares? Only one way to find out. Episode Links: Michael Lucid's IG Michael Lucid's TikTok Sasha's Writing Class Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 28: Sasha once again boasts about her yoga mastery. Then we discuss some gruesome health issues.

Actor, writer and improviser Macklen Makhloghi takes us for a swim in the vast ocean that is the web series ON CINEMA AT THE CINEMA starring Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington. Episode Links: Macklen's IG Macklen's Twitter Thread Corner Honeymoon Improv Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 27: Joe's Murder Mystery dinner party. Sasha's first experience drawing a naked human body.

Jay Hunter, a famous cinematographer and director person, is also a domesticated man who loves HOME IMPROVEMENT (NOT the TV show). Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 26: Sasha and Joe explore the nature of love and friendship, suckling on one's aunt and get in a heated debate about an instagram video.

Actor and improviser David Danipour is here to love K-PAX -- not a Korean ab workout, but a 2001 film that lulls him to sleep within ten minutes, no matter the scene. In a good, soothing kind of way. Episode Links: David's Website David's IG David's YouTube Channel David's X Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Actor, voice over artist and production extraordinaire Alyssa Appleton is here to share how BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER gave her a voice when she needed it most. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website Alyssa's IG

What exactly are LEGACY SEQUELS, and why would anyone love them? Filmmaker and comedy writer Wahab Shayek is here to explain -- using LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (2007) as his prime example. Wahab wrote Playmates, a short heist comedy that was selected to screen at the Tasveer Film Festival. He is also a proud (self-proclaimed) Cabello Bro 4 Life. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

In this final SHUT UP I SCARE IT episode, actress Tessie Herrasti recalls the time when an EVIL ENTITY latched onto her trapezoid. Episode Links: Tessie's Website Tessie's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Actor, writer and improviser Macklen Makhloghi wants us to SHUT UP AND SCARE about the wonderfully surface-level Stephen King film SILVER BULLET (1985) -- a movie where nothing really pays off, but no one cares that it doesn’t. Episode Links: Macklen's IG Macklen's Twitter Thread Corner Honeymoon Improv Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 25: Killing things in your script. He was a Gilmore boy all along. Believing a cartoon when a turtle crawls out of its shell.

Producer and comedy man Gil Baron is back ​for a SHUT UP ​I SCARE ​e​episode about THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, the animated spin-off of the 1984 classic film that he calls “a perfect intro to horror.” Nostalgia for it has even struck people who grew up in Siberia. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Actor and comedian Shane Hartline (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Station 19) is back for our very first SHUT UP I SCARE IT! Shane’s heart forever belongs to Sam, the pumpkin-headed trick-or-treater from the spooky cult favorite T​RICK'R TREAT (2007). Episode Links: Shane's TikTok Shane's IG Shane's X Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 24: Alien: Earth. The inner workings of the podcast. Covid and throwing up.

Welcome to our first ever SHUT UP I REWATCH IT! Writer and Army veteran Rachael B joins us to revisit MOONLIGHTING, the hit ’80s TV series starring the feuding Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. Note: this show is *NOT* BOSOM BUDDIES. Episode Links: Rachael's IG Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 23: In this episode Sasha talks about the superhuman powers that being a parent can give you.A little backstory: During the LA fires, Joe was near the Eton fire, Sasha was right by the Kenneth fire, and we were checking in on everyone -- each other, our friends, anyone who crossed our minds. This is when we remembered something important: we’re old friends with a lot of ridiculous history. So we decided to make it a thing—a weekly check-in where we catch up, talk about all the stuff outside the usual episode topics, reminisce about the Golden Age of Improv, spill the hot goss, and share whatever pop culture or art has us hooked that week.These weekly check-ins are now living over on Patreon. If you love the podcast and can’t get enough of this undeniable chemistry, come hang out with us there.

After years of anxiety about his imminent BALDNESS, Evan Kananack finally shaved his head—and it turned out to be the best decision of his life... except for those times he gets mistaken for other bald guys. Evan is a writer, director, champion of the Hero's journey, and marketing agency creative director for branded content, nationally televised commercials, and documentaries. Episode Links: Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

When filmmaker and producer Julian Vargas first saw F FOR FAKE (1973), Orson Welles’ film/essay/doc, he immediately had to watch it again. A story about an art forger and a lying biographer, it’s ultimately a window into the heart of one of cinema’s greats. Come to the screening of Julian's two films at Coaxial Arts, 1815 S Main Street, Sunday, October 19th from 7PM - 10PM (@coaxialarts) Episode Links: Julian's IG Julian's Production Company Film & Fabric Joe's Patreon Mr. Owl's Website

Here’s a FREE PREVIEW of our latest Check-In Episode, aka "Shut Up Sasha and Joe." To hear more, head to https://www.patreon.com/c/ShutUpILoveItPodcastCheck-In Episode # 22: Coffee's for (jacuzzi) closers. The not-wet dream about Nathan Fielder....and an announcement of SHUT UP I SCARE IT!A little backstory: During the LA fires, Joe was near the Eton fire, Sasha was right by the Kenneth fire, and we were checking in on everyone -- each other, our friends, anyone who crossed our minds. This is when we remembered something important: we’re old friends with a lot of ridiculous history. So we decided to make it a thing—a weekly check-in where we catch up, talk about all the stuff outside the usual episode topics, reminisce about the Golden Age of Improv, spill the hot goss, and share whatever pop culture or art has us hooked that week.These weekly check-ins are now living over on Patreon. If you love the podcast and can’t get enough of this undeniable chemistry, come hang out with us there.