Blank Check — Patreon: A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free)

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Alex Ross Perry.

Subject films: A Clockwork Orange.

On the transcript: Automatic transcript with no speaker labels, frequent mis-hearings of names and film titles, and merged or mis-timed lines; speakers are inferred and often uncertain. Quoted dossier and interview passages are read aloud by a host.

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Full first names for Milena Canonero, Cary Fukunaga, Peter Hyams, Paddy Chayefsky and Michel Ciment, and corrected titles (The Wanting Seed, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Sunday Bloody Sunday, In Good Company, Kotch) were supplied only to repair mangled transcript names; no facts were added.

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unmapped (star vehicle): Malcolm McDowell → Lindsay Anderson. McDowell became a cultural avatar across the Lindsay Anderson movies of 67 to 73.
“where he becomes like sort of a cultural avatar. across like the Lindsey Anderson movies in this, right?”
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what-if (casting what-if): Malcolm McDowell → Brian Cox. The speakers wonder whether X2 called McDowell after Cox said no.
“They must have called Malcolm for X2.”
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career (career arc): Fear and Desire → 2001: A Space Odyssey. An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001.
“So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire.”
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theme (location myth): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones.
“it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works”
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people (repeat actors): Peter Sellers → Timothy Carey. They are the two actors Kubrick gave leads to more than once.
“Peter Sellers and Timothy Carey.”
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people (live-wire actors): Malcolm McDowell → Jack Nicholson. Both are called insane live-wire actors, chaos Kubrick knew how to control.
“But like, McDowell and Nicholson are both like insane live wire behavioral uncontrollable actors.”
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unmapped (trilogy claim): Dr. Strangelove → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ciment suggests a future trilogy; Kubrick, as quoted, rejects any deliberate pattern.
“There is no deliberate pattern to the stories I have chosen to make into films.”
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theme (theme: man vs machinery): Dr. Strangelove → A Clockwork Orange. Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall.
“Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure.”
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theme (theme: killing at a distance): Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket. The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances.
“Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?”
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theme (theme: Ludovico as 2001): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course.
“And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much”
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theme (theme: human error): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there.
“What's the human error in the Ludovico technique.”
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people (director): Jon Ronson → Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. The documentary short on Kubrick's archive is credited to Jon Ronson.
“It's like a documentary short that I think John Ronson did.”
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career (career sequence): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. After the grandest film he moves to a punk movie within two years.
“It just feels so exciting to be like, you just made 2001.”
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contrast (Oscars contrast): A Clockwork Orange → 2001: A Space Odyssey. This film was nominated for best picture while 2001 was not.
“Wild that a clock recording was nominated for best picture in 2001 wasn't.”
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people (writer): Paddy Chayefsky → The Hospital. The Hospital is called a Chayefsky movie.
“It's a Shayevsky movie.”
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career (next film): A Clockwork Orange → Barry Lyndon. After the violent X-rated hit, Kubrick makes a three-hour candlelit film about a loser scamming into high society.
“To make a 3 hour movie about just like a foolish loser who scams his way into Uppercrust society and it'll all be lit by candles.”
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unmapped (scale envy): War and Peace → Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). Kubrick is imagined looking at Bondarchuk's War and Peace and thinking he could stage battles like that.
“He's just looking at that and being like, I could do this.”
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unmapped (attached star): Jack Nicholson → Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). Nicholson was going to play Napoleon.
“Jack Nicholson was going to play Napoleon, obviously.”
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career (offered a project): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Burgess. While working on this film Kubrick asked Burgess to take a swing at Napoleon.
“He even like said to Anthony Burgess like, hey, do you want like to take a swing at Napoleon?”
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unmapped (roman a clef): Stanley Kubrick → Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel). Southern's novel Blue Movie is the book of a writer who worked with Kubrick.
“there's these books like Terry Southern's blue movie where people are like, I worked with Kubrick.”
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people (co-writer): Terry Southern → Dr. Strangelove. Terry Southern wrote Dr. Strangelove and worked on Lolita.
“Terry Southern Road, Dr. Strangelove.”
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lineage (origin of an idea): Terry Southern → Eyes Wide Shut. A conversation Southern had with Kubrick about an erotic film that looks like a film is called a kernel of Eyes Wide Shut.
“he basically had a conversation at one point with Kubrick that is a kernel of eyes wide shut.”
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unmapped (grudge): Anthony Burgess → Stanley Kubrick. Writers Kubrick adapted ended up enraged and obsessed with him, as Burgess did on stage.
“whenever he adapted someone's work, they sort of were like simultaneously enraged and obsessed with him in the wake.”
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unmapped (book vs film): Anthony Burgess → A Clockwork Orange. Reading the novel again, the speaker finds it almost the same as the film, dialogue and all.
“The dialogue is, it's just unbelievable how little he changed”
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unmapped (earlier attempt): The Rolling Stones' planned adaptation (unmade) → A Clockwork Orange. The Rolling Stones wanted to make the book first, with Jagger as Alex.
“the Rolling Stones were the original people who wanted to make this book, right?”
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unmapped (earlier attempt): Ken Russell → A Clockwork Orange. Ken Russell was planning to make the book before Kubrick got it.
“Ken Russell, who's very logical at time, was planning on making this intro.”
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lineage (adaptation): Anthony Burgess → A Clockwork Orange. The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little.
“Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much.”
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lineage (parallel adaptation): Vinyl → A Clockwork Orange. The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book.
“Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book.”
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lineage (earlier adaptation): Andy Warhol → Anthony Burgess. Warhol's Vinyl is an adaptation of the same book, which the speaker calls lightly inspired by it.
“I think it's lightly inspired.”
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people (solo writer-director): Steven Spielberg → Stanley Kubrick. Written and directed by is rare for Kubrick; A.I. was the same for Spielberg later.
“It is, the rare written and directed by, yeah, much like AI later for Spielberg.”
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career (career type): Malcolm McDowell → Eric Roberts. McDowell's IMDb is compared to Eric Roberts: endless work, still capable of a real performance.
“he is in that weird Eric Roberts zone where it's like, he does so much schlock.”
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unmapped (role inheritance): Malcolm McDowell → Donald Pleasence. McDowell as Dr. Loomis in the remakes is called a valid inheritor of Pleasence.
“He's a valid inheritor of the Donald Pleasance mantle.”
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theme (compared character): A Clockwork Orange → Richard III (play). Kubrick compares Alex to Richard III: a monster we are still somewhat sympathetic to.
“He compares him to Richard III.”
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lineage (inspiration): A Clockwork Orange → Her Smell. The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell.
“This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell.”
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people (composer): Wendy Carlos → A Clockwork Orange. The electronic score is called a ten out of ten before the movie even begins.
“it's already a 10 out of 10, the electronics score.”
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people (shared composer): Wendy Carlos → Tron. Carlos's discography is just three films: A Clockwork Orange, Tron, The Shining.
“And I looked up the Wendy Carlos discography and it's like, uh, Cockwork Orange, Tron, the Shining, and that's it.”
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people (shared composer): Wendy Carlos → The Shining. Carlos scored A Clockwork Orange, Tron, and The Shining; each indelibly iconic.
“and each one is like indelibly iconic, even though some, you know, shining has very little music.”
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unmapped (improvised use): Malcolm McDowell → Singin' in the Rain. McDowell says he began singing the song when Kubrick asked if he could dance, and Kubrick bought the rights at once.
“And so I began to sing a singing in the rain, and Stanley burst out laughing.”
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unmapped (song over credits): Gene Kelly → A Clockwork Orange. The Gene Kelly version of Singin' in the Rain plays over the end credits.
“especially when they play the Gene Kelly version over the end credits.”
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unmapped (self-reference): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
“but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
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theme (self-reference analogy): A Clockwork Orange → Armageddon. The record-store 2001 sleeve is compared to Michael Bay referencing Armageddon in Transformers.
“It's like Michael Bay referencing Armageddon in Transformers.”
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craft (classical-music villain): A Clockwork Orange → Sleeping with the Enemy. The speakers ask whether this was the first film to make a love of classical music a mark of evil; then joke about Sleeping with the Enemy.
“Is this the 1st movie to make, like, for classical, like a love of classical music, this person is actually really evil.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:53:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (other credit): Michael Bates → Last of the Summer Wine (TV). Bates is best known in Britain for the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
“He was in last of the summer wine, which is just another hilarious where you're like, last of the summer wine”
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unmapped (anticipates): A Clockwork Orange → Michel Foucault. The film's prison debate predates Foucault's Discipline and Punish by four or five years.
“which is exactly what the government comes and says in this movie that predates this Foucault book by like 4 or 5 years”
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unmapped (vibes): A Clockwork Orange → Stanley Milgram. The Ludovico setup gets Milgram experiment vibes.
“Uh, Scott Milgram, experiment, vibes.”
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unmapped (parodied): A Clockwork Orange → The Simpsons (TV). The Simpsons reference this film a lot.
“But the Simpsons reference is clockwork orange. a lot.”
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people (shared actor): David Prowse → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Prowse, the bodyguard in this film, played Darth Vader.
“He played Darth Vader.”
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people (casting world): A Clockwork Orange → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The British casting looks like Star Wars casting six years later.
“this just feels like it lives in the same world of casting at Star Wars to me.”
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lineage (sequel): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2010. Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books.
“But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?”
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lineage (sequel): The Shining → Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
“There's also Doctor Sleep.”
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theme (shared theme): Anthony Burgess → The Wanting Seed (novel). Burgess's earlier novel is another dystopia, about overpopulation and food scarcity instead of violence.
“the Anthony Burgess novel before a Clockwork Orange is very similar in that it's a dystopian future”
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unmapped (violence wave): A Clockwork Orange → Dirty Harry. The same weeks of 1971-72 saw Bonnie and Clyde, Dirty Harry and A Clockwork Orange in a rush of screen violence.
“Well, especially because like Bonnie Clyde, Dirty Harry, Clockwork Orange.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Alex Ross Perry's parents took his name from a movie credit, and for years he told people he was named after Alex in this film.
“I told people I was named after Alex and the Clockwork Orange.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Alex Ross Perry first saw it at 13, rented from Blockbuster in his grandparents' basement in June 1998, two weeks after the AFI 100 list came out.
“And I remember sitting in my grandparents' basement and they took me to Blockbuster, I guess.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: A girl fainted and hit her head on a desk when David's class watched it; they had to call an ambulance.
“A girl in my class when we watched it, fainted and hit her head on the corner of a desk, and they had to call the ambulance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:15:18 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Kubrick pulled the film from Britain a year after release and it stayed out until his death; it was banned in Ireland until 1999.
“Kubrick withdrew this film from Britain.”
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fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's box maker says he sent a 40-page document and months went into the micron of card for a perfect lid.
“And he's just like, Stanley came to us with a 40 page document.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Three years after 2001 missed a best picture nomination, the Oscars put this X-rated film in the race.
“is this movie too violent to exist? and the Oscars are like, eh, best picture.”
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fun, about Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film): Itemized Napoleon needs included 200,000 gallons of blood and 40,000 infantry; Kubrick asked France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania for armies.
“We were going to need 200,000 gallons of blood.”
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fun, about Anthony Burgess: When Burgess adapted the book as a stage play, an actor dressed as Kubrick sang Singin' in the Rain and got beaten up on stage.
“get an actor dressed like Stanley Kubrick with an umbrella, singing, singing in the rain, and they beat the shit at him on stage.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Kubrick dismissed the book's final happy chapter: had he known it existed he would have ignored it anyway.
“if I had known this had existed, I would have ignored it anyway.”
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fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In the Ciment book Kubrick says on the opening zoom: save cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the place.
“It's important to save your cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the actual place you're going to film it.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The milk bar is one of only four built sets; the fiberglass furniture was made, not found.
“And this is one of the 4 built sets.”
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fun, about Singin' in the Rain: McDowell says the song was his idea in the writer's-house scene; Kubrick phoned New York and bought the rights at once.
“He went to Bournwood Studio, telephoned New York, and purchased the rights to the music immediately.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The graffiti on the lobby poster in Alex's building is written in the book.
“Weirdly, the graffiti on that poster is written in the book.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The record store scene puts the 2001 soundtrack on the rack, like a director saying I made that movie.
“Didn't he pull out the 2001?”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The cat lady scene uses one editing trick that never recurs in the film: a visit condensed over the shot of her doing yoga.
“there's a trick he does here once that never occurs elsewhere in the movie”
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fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick shot the handheld shots himself in all his movies, which the speaker calls an underanalyzed strength.
“That he did all the handheld stuff himself.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The eyedrop man was a real doctor, given a line by Kubrick, and fumbled the drops because he fixated on the line.
“And then the guy was so obsessed with the line.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:15:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about A Clockwork Orange: McDowell scratched his cornea during the eyedrop scenes and the numbing wore off in the car; a speed bump felt like a razor blade.
“And then he had scratched his cornea.”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The post-treatment demonstration scene has Michael Bates giving all-time reaction shots to the naked woman.
“The series of of reaction shots of him watching her are just like all time reaction shots.”
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fun, about David Prowse: Told to carry the wheelchair down stairs repeatedly, Prowse said his name was not one-take Kubrick; they got it in six takes.
“And Prow says, yeah, I am, but your name's not one take Kubrick, is it?”
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fun, about David Prowse: Prowse did all the Darth Vader dialogue on set in a thick west country accent, expecting his voice to be used.
“He's got this lovely west country accent.”
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fun, about Warner Bros.: The Kubrick estate and Warner were so protective that Alex DeLarge merchandise stayed at bay until a recent flood of products.
“Part of it, by the way, was just that like Warner Brothers even was so respectful to the Kubrick estate”
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fun, about A Clockwork Orange: It opened at number nine at the box office in January 1972; Diamonds Are Forever was number one.
“And it's opening on number nine.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:54:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about House of Wax: It was the first major studio 3D movie, with a two-minute paddleball bit aimed at the camera.
“just fucking paddleballs the camera for like 2 minutes”
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Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves Kubrick's looseness and humor and wants to demolish the cold-genius myth. Resents the mythology built around him and the attitude of Kubrick guys. Is a sucker for comedy bits, Simpsons-grade jokes, and cinema trivia like the box-office game.
David Sims (host): Plays the show's running Brit, leaning into a bit that he grew up in England and is the only one who can speak to the film's culture. Brings the research dossier and keeps trying to steer back to the movie. Jokes that he sympathizes with the authority figures like Mr. Deltoid. Is the target of the hip hop Sims joke.
Ben Hosley (host): The producer in the room; reacts strongly to Barry Lyndon and to Burgess's other novels. Drinks the milk and adds trivia about Burgess and the Prodigy. Straight-edge about the drugged milk.
Alex Ross Perry (guest): Calls A Clockwork Orange the favorite film of his life and the number one on his Sight and Sound list. Loves the five-act structure, the handheld work, Kubrick's looseness, and the book's syntax. Is a sucker for Simpsons quotes, the prodigy, and seeing it on 35mm.

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

Michelle Cement / Michelle Siement / Michelle Simon → Michel Ciment (French critic whose Kubrick interview book is quoted)
Melina Cananera / Melina Ken O'Nera → Milena Canonero (costume designer)
Peter Himes → Peter Hyams (director of 2010)
Keith Flynn → Keith Flint (vocalist of The Prodigy)
Bonderchuck → Sergei Bondarchuk (War and Peace, 1967)
Kerry Fukanaga → Cary Fukunaga (Napoleon miniseries)
David Prowz / Prow / Prowls / Browse → David Prowse (Darth Vader in the suit)
Shayevsky / Hifsky → Paddy Chayefsky
Scott Milgram → Stanley Milgram (obedience experiment)
Wanting see / wanting scene → The Wanting Seed (Burgess novel)
Sunday Buddy Sunday → Sunday Bloody Sunday
Lindsey / Liz Anderson → Lindsay Anderson
Ryan O'Neill → Ryan O'Neal; Dnofrio -> D'Onofrio; Modine -> Matthew Modine
Cooper / Cubric / Hubrick / Kubert → Kubrick; Shane Kubrick -> Stanley Kubrick
Drews / Drew / drugs (the gang) → droogs
Mary Steenberg → Mary Steenburgen; Alexander Sidig Fadil -> Alexander Siddig El Fadil
Candace LeBron James → Candice Bergen (probable)
Mark Magolis → Mark Margolis; Top all -> Topol; Anne Margaret -> Ann-Margret
Bednogs and broomsticks → Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Conch / Kaja → Kotch (Walter Matthau film)
Mr. Alexander named 'F. Alexander' in the transcript; Chaplain / Chaplin → the prison chaplain

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