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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
A BAOLIT double feature of one of 2023's best new movies and an 80s Art-House classic.
Featured Films:
-Past Lives
-Paris, Texas
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
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
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!
...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
Inspired by the most recent Ari Aster release, the BAOLIT buds stretch the limits of their linguistic capabilities by constructing an episode theme entirely based on other movie titles they can mash up with Beau Is Afraid. and the results are predictably unhinged.
Featured films:
-Beau Is Afraid (2023)
-Beau Travail (1999)
-Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
-Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
In celebration of the release of John Wick 4, Zach and Nate are joined by celebrated Keanu-ficionados Ivy Olcott and Gabe Hayes to discuss the life and career of one of modern cinemas brightest shining stars, The Babayaga himself, Keanu Reeves. The four hosts talk through their personal histories with Reaves, the qualities that make him so exceptional, the grandeur of his most recent release, and finally, in quintessential BAOLIT s...
In the 4th episode of BAOLIT season 6, Zach and Nate hop on the pod to chat about a few of our favorite coke-filled crucifixes wearing, jazz whitesplaining, bad-hair-dye-job having, unrepentant child-murdering villain turns from historically heroic actors.
Featured films:
-Collateral (2004)
-Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
-One Hour Photo (2002)
-Cruel Intentions (1999)
Zach, Nate, and perennial guest Gabe return to settle their outstanding Oscar bets, debrief on this year's ceremony, and hand out their own set of awards to their personal favorites from the year 2022 in movies.
The BAOLIT gang and frequent guest/only listener Gabe put their livers on the line wagering shots on the upcoming 2023 Oscar winners, with results being recorded immediately after Sunday's ceremony.
In celebration of the latest installment in the Gerard Butler Expanded Universe, "Plane," Zach and Nate take a journey into the world of all things cinematically vehicular and/or vehicularly cinematic to discuss and award a few vehicle-movie all-stars.
Films Featured This Episode:
-"Plane" (2023)
-"Strangers On A Train" (1951)
-"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"...
The always marvelous Lauren Marchionni joins Zach and Nate to debrief their respective watches of one of the most chaotic, confounding, triumphant, and at times misguided films of 2022: Damien Chazelle's Babylon.
Warning: Spoilers Abound for BABYLON!
The Baolit Buds are joined by a "smattering" of guests (Zach's words, blame him) to hand out some awards to the best and worst films of 2022.
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