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Season 6, Episode 13 (#165):

“Do Not Be Distracted”

Lionel & Jim

Topics: a look at Kundun and Hugo by Martin Scorsese

Thursday, December 11, 2025
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Tibetan Oracle in the movie Kundun

We begin with an embarassing discussion of Jim's relationship with his bidet without being overly disgusting. Somehow, we move to Martin Scorsese’s 1997 movie Kundun and each of our reactions to it. We transition to his movie Hugo (2011) and we should warn you, that this movie is full of surprises and we give them all away, hence, there is a huge SPOILER WARNING with this episode.

Afterwards, we openly plan for upcoming episodes and talk about Jim's experience at the Northeastern Regional Folk Music conference he went to in Albany back in early November. This episode was recorded November 14.

For those interested in watching it, Jim mentions Janis Ian’s keynote address at the conference which can be viewed here: https://janisian.com/videos/janis-ian-keynote-speech-at-nerfa-2025/