Vishy and Bosco, two best friends since high school and lovers of art, talk about their favourite pieces of media.
From Movies to Albums to Books, they dive into the influence and impact that each piece of media has had on their lives and creative endeavors.
The world is already filled with enough negativity, why not focus on the things we love?
This is For The Love Of Media.
Vishy and Bosco party hard while discussing the over-the-top, raucous, and high energy party album: Andrew WK's I Get Wet!
Get ready to die while we party 'til we puke because this will be a fun night for all as the two best friends talk one of Bosco's favourite albums of all time!
Now, everybody let out a cathartic yell and party hard!!
I Get Wet (2001)
By Andrew WK
20 May 2026
For The Love Of Media: Mad Max: Fury Road
Vishy and Bosco dive into one of the most action-packed, high octane films of the last decade!
They discuss dystopian landscapes, car chases and complex character studies!
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) was directed by George Miller and written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris.
Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult.
4 Oct 2024
For The Love Of Media: The Brave Little Toaster
Vishy and Bosco take a trip back to their childhoods and talk about the wonderful yet surprisingly dark children's animated film, The Brave Little Toaster.
The two friends discuss existential crises experienced by objects, hauntingly beautiful animation, dissect the topics of each song, how Brave Little Toaster was a pre-cursor to Pixar and Toy Story and dive into the influence and inspiration the movie has had on their own work, specifically when it comes to children's media.
The Brave Little Toaster (1987) is directed by Jerry Rees, and written by Jerry Rees and Joe Ranft.
6 Jul 2024
For The Love Of The Media: 10 Favourite Songs
Vishy and Bosco take a little detour from their usual discussions about specific media to do a little feature where they talk about their 10 favourite songs!
With 5 picks each, they discuss the influences these songs have had on them, some personal history with the songs and their love for all things dissonant and macabre.
Vishesh's Picks:
God's Away On Business - Tom Waits
Death, Death (Devil, Devil, Evil, Evil, Song) - Aurelio Voltaire
Holiday In Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against The Machine
Bosco's Picks:
Ready To Die - Andrew WK
Race Of Doom - Devo
Dog Like Sparky - Cardiacs
Music For A Found Harmonium - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Because You're Frightened - Magazine
27 Jun 2024
For The Love Of Media: The Seventh Seal
Vishy and Bosco revisit the philosophical and profound Ingmar Bergman film from 1957, The Seventh Seal.
A movie that explores the human search for answers in the face of despair, with examinations of life and death, and a nuanced take on beliefs and faith when knocking at death's door.
Vishy and Bosco dissect the film's themes and discuss the philosophical approach to life and death, while also talking about iconic moments and contrasts of light and dark.
They laughed, they cried and had an existential crisis!
4 Jun 2024
For The Love Of Media: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Vishy and Bosco return and talk about one of Bosco's favourite albums: Dead Kennedys' debut album from 1980, Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.
The two friends discuss a handful of songs from the album and dive into topics such as Media Literacy, Satire, Use of words, Critical Thinking, the Housing Crisis and many more!
Note: Bassist, Klaus Fluoride, is accidentally called Florian Fluoride in episode.
1 Oct 2023
For The Love of Media: Wild Tales
Vishy and Bosco are back and this time talk about the Anthology Dark Comedy, Wild Tales. Six shorts that explore the extremes of human behaviour in very relatable situations.
Vishy and Bosco discuss their love for dark comedies, world cinema and their favourite segments from the movie.
Wild Tales (2014) - OG Title: Relatos Salvajes. Directed by Damian Szifron
14 Oct 2021
A Very Special Vishy and Bosco Episode: OCD Awareness
In this very special episode of Vishy and Bosco, the two friends discuss a topic that has been a big part of Bosco's life: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
For OCD Awareness week, Bosco talks candidly about what life with OCD is like as Vishesh prompts him with questions. They talk about what OCD is, the many complex factions, the various themes, what it feels like, busting myths surrounding OCD, media's portrayal of OCD and even take a dip into the dark side of having a mental disorder.
Vishy and Bosco set aside the laughs to bring a more serious episode with the hopes of bringing awareness, squishing the stigma surrounding it and sharing knowledge about the disorder known as OCD.
For more information check out IOCDF (International OCD Foundation) as a resource.
3 Oct 2021
For The Love Of Media: The Goonies
HEY YOU GUYS!
In this episode of For the Love of Media, Vishy and Bosco talk about one of Bosco's favourite movies: The Goonies. They discuss their favourite characters, memorable lines, and dive deep into the caves of the themes of friendship found throughout.
Put down that map, throw your pinchers of death and take a seat on one-eyed willie's ship as we play a piano made of bones, do the truffle shuffle and run from the Fratellis, it's an adventure you wouldn't want to miss.
Smell the ice cream, Sloth will be grateful.
6 Sept 2021
Two Halves of One Idiot #6: Theatre
In this episode of Two Halves of One Idiot, Vishy and Bosco talk about one of their biggest passions in their lives: Theatre.
They share stories about how they got into Theatre, funny mishaps that have happened on stage, their favourite roles and in their most explicit conversation to date talk theatre and sex.
Load in the set, turn on the lights, sit through a full day cue to cue, do a quick change and be ready for your curtain call because the show must go on!
11 Jul 2021
For The Love Of Media: Swordfishtrombones
In this episode of For the Love of Media, Vishy and Bosco talk about one of Vishesh's favourite albums: Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones.
They discuss the cabaret aesthetic of Tom Waits, his storytelling skills and even try out their own interpretations of Tom Waits singing a variety of different tunes.
Let's explore the dark, twisted world that Tom Waits vividly paints, enter the minds of shell shocked soldiers, broken people and lonely humans, and take a walk through dilapidated neighbourhoods. Misery is the river of the world in this universe and there's no way out.
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27 Jun 2021
Two Halves of One Idiot #5: Veganism
In this episode of Two Halves of One Idiot, Vishy and Bosco discuss the very topical and divisive topic of Veganism.
They dive into their personal views and experience, express their disdain for extremists (both vegans and carnivores), and make their best attempt to have a nuanced discussion about the ever strongly opinionated world view of Veganism.
Sit down, have a vegan dish and meet a 600-pound Texan with a hankering for meat, this should be a wild ride.
15 Jun 2021
For The Love Of Media: Oh No! It's Devo!
In this episode of For the Love of Media, Vishy and Bosco dive head first into Bosco's favourite album from his favourite band, Oh No! It's Devo! by Devo (1982).
They discuss the band's philosophy of De-Evolution, dissect each song and the themes of the album, and occasionally go on tangents trying to find meaning in this otherwise meaningless world.
Take some Time Out For Fun and have a mini Explosion of joy before entering your Deep Sleep and take a listen! Just make sure you're not Out of Sync when you do, otherwise it'll end in a Big Mess.
What happens when a band sets out to make an album as Fascist Clowns? You get people yelling Oh No! It's Devo!
30 May 2021
Two Halves of One Idiot #4: Animal Kingdom
In this episode, Vishy and Bosco discuss the animal kingdom. They talk about their favorite creatures as well as some of the most terrifying. They delve into the various mating habits of odd animals, share personal stories of crazy creature encounters and get introspective with their inner animal.
Since nature itself is not particularly family-friendly, you might want to skip over this if you're uncomfortable with talk of certain mating rituals or certain parts of animal anatomy.
16 May 2021
For The Love Of Media: The Left Hand Of Darkness
In this episode of For the Love of Media, Vishy and Bosco delve into one of Vishesh's favourite books: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.
They get more philosophical and analytical, digging deep into the book's themes, characters and impact it had on both Vishesh and Western Society. They discuss Individualism vs. Collectivism, Worldbuilding in fiction, the complexities of Sci-fi novels and Identity.
No Shifgrethor to be found here.
2 May 2021
Two Halves of One Idiot #3: Minimum Wage Jobs
Vishy and Bosco hand in their CVs, throw on some old uniforms and take a trip down memory lane at some of their old minimum wage jobs they had.
They share stories of toxic work environments, fun shenanigans, absurd customers, terrible managers and their experiences working through minimum wage.
19 Apr 2021
For The Love Of Media: Airplane!
When people hear about this episode, the shit's going to hit the fan.
Vishy and Bosco become excited school children as they gush about their favourite gags from this 1980 Comedy classic. Chosen as Bosco's all-time number 1 film, they talk lessons in comedy, what makes Airplane! work so well and go off on Tangents about other unrelated movies.
Surely you can't be serious? I am serious and don't call me Shirley.
4 Apr 2021
Two Halves of One Idiot #2: Aliens
In this episode of Two Halves of One Idiot, Vishy and Bosco pick the topic of Aliens at random from their tiny tupperware of topics. In the search for an answer to the question, Are Aliens Real? They discuss aliens amongst us, aliens in media, the X-Men, and delve into a new theory about octopuses.
If you'd like to suggest a topic for future episodes, share them with us on our Instagram: @vishyandboscopodcast
21 Mar 2021
For The Love Of Media: Pan's Labyrinth
In their first episode of For The Love Of Media, Vishesh makes the pick of one of his favourite movie of all time: Pan's Labyrinth.
Vishy and Bosco discuss Twisted Fairytales, Big Moral Dilemmas, Dark Fantasy, other movies that deal with escapist fantasies and what makes Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo Del Toro's best piece of work.
As always, Spoiler warnings as they talk about everything and anything about the movie.
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