THIS IS THE TICKET

Saving for a Custom Van - the tribute album to Adam Schlesinger

Fountains of Wayne's Tiny Desk Concert

Miley Cyrus' cover of "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica

Miley Cyrus' mashup of "We Can't Stop" and "Where is My Mind" by the Pixies

Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande's cover of "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House

Brian K. Vaughan's Private Eye, available for free!

Interview with Darius Rucker where he says he's forming a supergroup with Mike Mills (of R.E.M.) and Steve Gorman (of the Black Crowes)

brattyxbre - great YouTuber that covers all things zines

Spotify has changed! They have finally garnered a profit. (Also what Casey read was inaccurate, 98% of Spotify users are long-term.)

Andre 3000 performing a song (with a really long title) from his last album, New Blue Sun

Lady Gaga's "Disease" - her return to form

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Ali Abassi is a director. His 2022 film, Holy Spider, is quite good!

Ali Abdaal is the self-help YouTuber. His videos are also good!

IF you have the emotional bandwith to learn about microplastics.

"Rainwater is No Longer Safe to Drink"

Consumer Reports on mercury in tuna

(Not on directing at all) the time Cassavetes, Peter Falk, and Ben Gazzara drove Dick Cavett up the wall

Peter Bogdanovich interview for Casey's favorite film, They All Laughed

Interview with Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino - they briefly touch on their classic inspirations.

Nicole Holofcener's BAFTA Lecture (editing is annoying but she drops some gold...)

The greatest romance film of the 21st century

Ari's a simp and loves this video essay about Billy Wilder

UGH ARI CHECK YOUR FACTS! Billy Wilder moved to Hollywood in 1934

Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man - A Billy Wilder Doc

Hitchcock/Truffaut, BABY

Willem Dafoe by: Kristoffer Borgli

Kristoffer Borgli's short reminded Casey of this Dustin Guy Defa short

Scanners (1981)

A Patrick Willems' video essay on Streets of Fire

Thank you so much to everyone that listens, we appreciate you.

Take a walk on the wild side and memory lane and take a gander at the first ever episode of This is the Ticket. We didn't have a name back then. Look how far we've come.

Haim's "Summer Girl" music video (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)

The final scene of Wreck it Ralph - obviously don't watch it if you have't seen it, but if you have and want to cry today, go forth.

Patrick H Willem's video essay about trains that's also about Steven Seagal

Find Marie Osterman, here! She Rocks!

Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile's Tiny Desk Concert

I'm Not There - the already good Bob Dylan movie

How to pronounce Barry Keoghan

The supposed casting of The Beatles biopic

Miles Ahead - Don Cheadle's cool as hell Miles Davis biopic

Wiki excerpt on George Melford's Mexican Dracula film

Ari was wrong - it's the Stairs of Cirith Ungol not Bara Dur lol

Ari was wrong again! They shot Sean Astin's coverage first and then Elijah Wood's coverage a year later.

Ari's new YouTube Channel, Morons <3

Dumb & Dumber and Speed came out the same year. Wow.

Pygmalion (1938) on Criterion

"Champagne" from In the Heights - it always makes Casey cry.

News of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE!

Jake Gyllenhaal and Cary Fukunaga being Sondheim nerds

How Talking About Your Goals is Destroying Your Life

Clark Rhee! Composer extraordinaire

In Defense of Taste - CASEY'S SUBSTACK!

Fiona Apple - LADIES!

Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better

Rhianna - Same Old Mistakes

Interview with Nancy Olson, academy award nominated actress from Sunset Boulevard

The whole The Blob for free on YouTube BABY

Sorry, George Miller was just another physician, not a dentist lol

EPISODE 27! HELL! DREAMS! DRUGS! MOVIES! MARRIAGE!

Episode will be released Friday, September 20, 2024. Get excited!

75 Hard

Let Shaun talk to you about Harry Potter

Great Alien piece by Joe Mayall

Ari's fitness journey really took hold when he finally encountered these resources: 1. Tim Ferriss - 2021 reset 2. Tim Ferriss - The Kettlebell Swing (supplementary read The 4 Hour Body) 3. kboges YouTube Channel

Horse Stance Video

The Benefits of High Rep Squats Video

His pull-up mastery program - it's free!

His paused rep mastery program - also free!

4. Peter Attia on protein consumption - ignore the actual title it's an annoying title lol - overall I think Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman are good resources if you want to do really really intense deep dives, but this is a good intro.

CRITERION CASEY - Bill Duke's Deep Cover, the greatest crime thriler of all time

How to keep glasses from fogging up under your mask, CASEY! lol

James Acaster's Repertoir - he becomes an undercover cop. it's delightful

Bernie Mac on Def Jam

CAN I HAVE YOUR NUMBER?

Barcelona from Stephen Sondheim's Company <3

Bombshell trailer - the makeup was good!

Mary Jane, the play with Rachel McAdams, written by Amy Herzog

Rachel McAdams audition tape for The Notebook

The Black Sabbath song Casey sings is actually "Paranoid"

Lorenzo's Oil - GREAT movie, with Peter Ustinov, who played Hercule Poirot

Baby Ada!

Money by: Pink Floyd, Casey.

This is Carly Rae Jepsen's best song

Corny dancey candy music that Ari is a sucker for: Supernatural ft. Carly Rae Jepsen

Our episode with Mallory Corinne, the reason Casey & Ari met. Or rather, Mallory is the reason Casey & Ari met and then eventually they made a podcast and then they had Mallory on it and that link above is the episode. lol

Phantom of the Paradise is half a Faust adaptation and Paul Williams wrote great music for it, including the song, "Faust"

Kevin Smith's anniversary text

CRITERION CASEY - Elia Kazan's 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd

Ari and Casey talk about emotional unavailability, the Olympics, and Criterion's 40 year box set.

Watch episode 25 on YouTube! Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Ilona Maher's TikTok

USA Women's Gymnastics video

Aly Raisman's video on gymnastics scoring

Men's Canoe Slalom 2024

COOL RUNNING'S, MAN!

Nodar Kumaritashvili - the luger who died in 2022

Top Banned Gymnastics Moves lol

The banned move Casey refers to is a Thomas Salto, the Russian gymnast he refers to is Yelena Shushunova - here is her at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she successfully completes the Thomas Salto at 1:05

Why do these people run for 24 hours in a basement?

Fast may allow you to reset your circadian rhythm faster according to this 2016 article lol

In Defense of Taste - CASEY'S SUBSTACK BABY!

She Came to Me Trailer

Casey's review of She Came to Me

TOXIC AVENGER WITH OUR BOI DINKLAGE!

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore trailer

Peter Dinklage Peter Dinklage Peter Dinklage

The Emotional Bank Account

Start paying attention to the bids in your relationship

The video Ari watched that mentioned Limerence

As cliche as it is now, James Clear was a huge influence on Ari after college.

Criterion 40 is upon us

Malia Obama is 26. She was born on Independence Day.

The critical reception of Last Man Standing is hilarious

VHS vs Laserdisc Star Wars

Article on Hezly Rivera's gold medal win

Article on Kerri Strug's 1996 injury

Ian Gunther's video on the Men's Gymnastics selection

Pommel Horse Guy lol

Japan won gold in men's artistic team all-around, China won silver.

Casey said "Matthew Brody," his name is Brody Malone

Aly Raisman's last Olympics was 2016.

"Why is Team USA so bad at 3x3 basketball?"

Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter doing Waiting for Godot

Ari is full of lies! Steve Martin & Robin Williams doing Waiting for Godot video!

Pauly Shore being annoying about Richard Simmons

Ramon Novarro, pioneering Mexican actor

Casey's Criterion 40 SPREAD SHEET FOR YOU NERDS!

Casey’s favorite SNL sketch

Casey’s 2nd favorite SNL sketch

Can Sha’Carri Richardson run on water?

Jennifer Lopez cancels her tour

Kyle Buchanan’s piece on JLo’s Oscar snub (because she WAS snubbed)

The “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” challenge

Marry Me Marry Me Say Yes (the Marry Me trailer, good movie!)

Casey loves Charlie’s Angels (2019)

Twelfth Night! 2025! NYC!

Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas starring Brad Pitt BABY

Apparently it's hard to find the original The Matrix teaser from the 1999 Superbowl?

HE GOT GAME

Spike Lee on Michael Mann's Ali

Denzel does Shakespeare BABY!

The mother fucking Fugitive, guys.

Inland Empire Technical Specs - you could buy this camera!

David F. Sandberg explains 32 bit float audio

Paul Thomas Anderson meets Kubrick

Michael Crichton's Congo - a novel about a gorilla who can sign

Indeana Underhill - an incredible DP

Animal Rehoming programs via spcLA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles)

Beyond Words: What Animals Think & Feel by: Carl Safina

The NASA funded Dolphin study that went wrong in a weird way

The secret to using egg rings

JK Rowling's friends

Perlego Study Guide on "Queer Temporality"

Kiss Me Kate trailer - a Taming of the Shrew musical about making a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew

Senses of Cinema piece on John Cassavetes’ directing style

Alien: Romulus teaser - best movie ever incoming

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe… because Errol Morris finished Gates of Heaven

Criterion Casey - 3 Women

Roger Ebert's 1980 interview with Shelley Duvall

Roger Ebert's analysis of 3 Women

We did it live! A couple days ago!

Laurie Berkner Lullabies

Ari was wrong - The Climate Clock is counting down from 5 years...not 25.

And then there's the Doomsday Clock, which Ari doesn't entirely understand.

UGH WAIT - Antarctica does actually have landmass (-__-)

Dr. Rena Malik - Get Better Erections & Stronger Orgasms with a Healthy Pelvic Floor ft. Julie Sarton

Dr. Kegel for pelvic floor health

Kapil Gupta & Naval - Conquering the Mind

Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies

Safdie Brother's Closet Picks - they talk about Mean Time

Trailer for Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner

ANNIE BAKER'S CRITERION CLOSET PICKS!

Talk Easy Pod with pulitzer prize winner, Annie Baker