Brazil with Andy Nelson
October 26, 2026
Andy Nelson brings Mandy his all-time number one film, a 1985 dark satire about bureaucracy, ducts, and torture that turns out to be a documentary about this week.
Andy Nelson brings Mandy his all-time number one film, a 1985 dark satire about bureaucracy, ducts, and torture that turns out to be a documentary about this week.
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Author Rick London hands Mandy the goriest thing she’s ever agreed to watch, and there’s a Peter Pan retelling hiding inside it. She squirms, she theorizes, and she may never unsee the slug.
Mandy watched all four hours of the official Grateful Dead documentary so you don’t have to — though Jeffrey Nicholas Brown, 27-show Deadhead and returning champion, would very much like you to. One of them ends the episode inventing a new word.
Mandy avoids anything with aliens, death, or unanswered questions, so of course JJ Jaeger handed her all three at once. It’s Arrival, and there may be a lump in her throat.
Mandy has never seen Psycho, which is a bit like admitting you’ve never heard of birds. Jesse Pfister — voice actor, day trader, owner of an alarmingly convincing prop knife — is here to fix that, one shadow-drenched Adam’s apple at a time.