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Welcome to Kicking the Seat!

Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar NoéRachel BrosnahanAmy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Ep188: Prepare to Believe

Much like the rainbow, today's Kicking the Seat Podcast is a promise fulfilled! In honor of 137 Films' goal-shattering Indiegogo campaign for their Ark Encounter documentary We Believe in Dinosaurs, friend of the show Bill Gudmundson joins Ian to recount their 2008 odyssey to Kentucky's Creation Museum. The guys talk preconceptions, impressions, and souvenirs in this irreverent assessment of a truly unbelievable place.

Also, Ian shares some info on tonight's one-of-a-kind Fathom Events screening of Woody Harrelson's Lost in London, and kicks off the show with a thematically appropriate clip from Bill Hicks' 1993 album, Arizona Bay (this is why we have the "Explicit" tag, folks).

No matter your place on the spiritual spectrum, Episode 188 is guaranteed to boost Creation Museum ticket sales by at least thirty pieces of silver!

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Ep189: Fathomable

Ep187: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN on THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN