Burritos And Other Less Important Things

Burritos And Other Less Important Things

Burritos And Other Less Important Things is a podcast about movies, and sometimes music, and occasionally other things, all of which are decidedly less important than burritos.

Episodes

July 9, 2025 101 mins

Inspired by the most recent (final?) addition to the Mission: Impossible franchise, The BAOLIT buds chat about Tom Cruise, corroded dynamite, white dreads, pressure psychosis, and other highlights of some of our favorite impossible missions in cinema history.


Films Discussed:

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckonning 

Gone In 60 Seconds 

The Abyss

Sorcerer 

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How much clearer could a title be? 

Movies discussed: 

-A History of Violence 

-V for Vendetta

-Sin City

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BAOLIT (and their one true Gabe, Gabe) wraps up their 2024 movie coverage with a recap of the 2025 Oscars, and then fixes all of the show's mistakes by crowning their own set of winners in the big categories. 


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The first of BAOLIT's annual Oscars pods, continuing their tradition of wagering the functionality of their livers on their ability to predict the whims of Academy member, as well as  discussing the upcoming ceremony, and making their personal picks of the nominees. 


Guest: Gabe Hayes

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January 22, 2025 88 mins

The BAOLIT boys kick off a new season with a look back at the last year in movies.

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September 25, 2024 79 mins

BAOLIT talks summer movies! 

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August 7, 2024 98 mins

Coming off simultaneous parental and migratory leaves, the BAOLIT buds return to talk about four of their favorite comfort watches: 

-The Last of Sheila
-Back To The Future
-Men In Black
-Moneyball 

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BAOLIT Season 7 Is Here! And to celebrate, Nate and Zach chat about four movies with very little thematically in common. 

Films Discussed: 
Monkey Man  (2024)
Pretty Woman 
(1990)
Bubble Boy
(2001)
Showgirls 
(1995)

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BAOLIT and their one true Gabe Gabe reunite to talk all things Oscars, first doing some predictions ahead of the telecast, and then recapping and handing out some awards of their own. 

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The BAOLIT buds reunite to talk a few of their all-time favorite movies and cope with the self-imposed panic attacks they suffer while trying to redo the Oscars for the 2013 film year. 

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It might be 2024, But we're still talking 2023 with the BAOLIT hosts and a bunch of pod friends, handing out fake awards to the highs, lows, and shoulder shrugs of the year in movies. 

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Nate and Zach (and briefly their good friend Lauren) revisit the cinematic highlights of their middle school years with the latest edition of their annual retrospective awards show, The 2003 LOTTIES! 

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November 29, 2023 49 mins

The BAOLIT buds get ahead on their 2013 Lottie's prep with a double feature of two 2013 Black And White features. 

Films Covered: 
Frances Ha
Nebraska

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November 15, 2023 108 mins

In celebration of Martin Scorsese's latest release, Killers of the Flower Moon, Zach and Nate discuss (and hand out a few awards to) some of the highlights of the storied director's filmography. 

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Longtime on-and-off-pod friend Kapil Easwar joins BAOLIT to talk movies with alternate endings, his new youtube channel, evolving newsroom ethics, their coastal elitism, and Nate's William Hurt obsession.

Featured Films:
-Clue
-Broadcast News
-Election

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October 4, 2023 65 mins

A BAOLIT double feature of one of 2023's best new movies and an 80s Art-House classic.

Featured Films:
-Past Lives
-Paris, Texas

 

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September 13, 2023 111 mins

Zach and Nate talk summer movies in all their endless, sweltering glory, and hand out their new summer-movie-specific awards, The SWEATIES.

Featured Films:
-Stand By Me
-Adventureland
-Mystic Pizza 

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BAOLIT takes on the summer movie event of the summer, Barbenheimer! And also a few other summer movies!! Summer!!!

Featured Films:
-Barbie (feat. Lauren Marchioni)
-Oppenheimer
-Mission Impossible: Dead Reckonning
(feat. Ivy Olcott) 
-Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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Ever find yourself wondering what early 1940s rural Austria and early aughts seedy and sex-crazed New York City have in common? Then this is the episode for you! Zach and Nate exchange two of their respective favorites, Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life and Jane Campion's In The Cut , and the results are totally normal, thanks for asking! 


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June 28, 2023 107 mins

...In which a multiversal collection of BAOLIT hosts come together to celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and chat about a few other films featuring multiple actors portraying the same character.

Featured Films:
-Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
-Freaky Friday
-I'm Not There
-Synecdoche, NY

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