Puma Thurman guitarist Brian Noll sits in for Brian Pritchard as he and Nicky P look back on the band’s first actual tour, from homesickness and brutal heat to getting better every show and Brian’s verdict: a laughing contest everyone won. Plus villain dance scenes, Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, and a Devil’s Night show preview.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard trace how Hollywood careers get built on people vouching for each other: Heath Ledger’s open house, Robert Pattinson backing Cronenberg, Johnny Depp backing Gilliam, Jonah Hill’s roommate break. Then they argue over nepotism. Also: Doug Liman’s Go, Willy’s Wonderland’s silent Nic Cage, Mandy, Baron Munchausen, and Viggo Mortensen aging on screen.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard ask why bands can’t build audiences the way stand-up comedians did on podcasts. The conversation takes in virality, the relaunched wecamefromcelluloid.com, High Fidelity’s lovable-loser problem, Ghana’s hand-drawn movie posters, mom-and-pop video store curation, journaling, and how one word can mean different things to different people.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard open with Alex Garland’s Devs miniseries and a lament for shows vanishing from streaming, then dig into why owning something, a Blu-ray, studio time, your own gear, changes how you value it, unpacking what “return on investment” really means. They close with Puma Thurman’s Devil’s Night show and December tour plans.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard start with music nostalgia, Presidents of the USA, Polyphia’s Tim Henson, and Dream Theater’s post-Portnoy comeback, before the conversation turns personal: Fight Club, nu-metal, and Nicky’s own brush with the incel mindset, and the libertarian philosophy that pulled him out of it. They close out with a TV and movie catch-up.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard talk band business: cracking Cleveland’s east side, conventions like Oddmall and Con on the Cob, a “minimum viable product” acoustic duo, writing a Halloween III song on request, Brian’s voice-memo backlog, how “Labor Day” became As Long As the Snow Falls, and a Point Break riff nicknamed Bodhi.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard talk about Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, The Orphanage being designed as Peter Pan from the parents’ point of view, how a mumbled lyric in Brian’s old band Dome became “Emilio, he’s no Sheen at all,” the Nights in White Satin idea behind Puma Thurman’s “1212,” Weezer’s Africa cover vs. Between the Buried and Me’s cover album, and learning phrasing from Sinatra.

Nicky P and Brian Pritchard react to the rough cut of the documentary Brian’s son Ben made about Puma Thurman’s first tour, including the New Haven show and a slow-motion callback to the band’s first show in 2005. They also talk about adding video to live shows, getting Max ready for December, and friendships like Jay Bombalicki’s that last 30 years.

First Tour Post-Mortem: Setlists, Shaky Hands, and Becoming the New Version of Us | We Came From Celluloid 021 Back from Puma Thurman’s first tour, five gigs in rooms from a Chicago bar to an apartment balcony in Denver, Nicky P and Brian Pritchard debrief: what one…

Recorded a week before Puma Thurman’s first tour, this episode has Nicky P and Brian Pritchard on tour prep, chasing the “right now we’re the best band in the world” feeling, Brian being the weakest player in Third World Leader, Nicky’s ’70s prog tribute Hot City Symphony, why effort is the pleasure, and Pat Smear leaving the Foo Fighters.