Fletcher Powell
@fletcherpowell.bsky.social
Program Director, producer, host, and movie critic at KMUW Wichita.
Co-host of the PMJA award-winning public radio show and podcast You’re Saying It Wrong.
“Pearl-clutching" - Forbes.com
Co-host of the PMJA award-winning public radio show and podcast You’re Saying It Wrong.
“Pearl-clutching" - Forbes.com
The kids have all of a sudden become obsessed with CARS and now I’m wondering if it’s too early to show them THE COLOR OF MONEY
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The kids have all of a sudden become obsessed with CARS and now I’m wondering if it’s too early to show them THE COLOR OF MONEY
I talked to Lexie Helgerson about her documentary AGE GROUP WINNER and her father, who once held a world record by running (more than) a marathon a week for an entire year
Running on legacy: A filmmaker's journey to understand her record-breaking father
Lexie Helgerson's documentary, "Age Group Winner," plays this weekend at the Tallgrass Film Center. Her dad, Jay Helgerson, once held a Guinness World Record for running a marathon a week for an entir...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I talked to Lexie Helgerson about her documentary AGE GROUP WINNER and her father, who once held a world record by running (more than) a marathon a week for an entire year
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Honkballer Ohtani
Honkballer Ohtani van Los Angeles Dodgers voor de vierde keer MVP #sport
Honkballer Ohtani van Los Angeles Dodgers voor de vierde keer MVP
LOS ANGELES ANPAFP Honkballer Shohei Ohtani van Los Angeles Dodgers is voor de vierde keer uitgeroepen tot meest waardevolle speler MVP in zijn divisie van de MLB. Het was de tweede keer op rij dat de 31jarige Japanner werd gekozen tot MVP van de National League. Eerder kreeg hij als speler van Los Angeles Angels twee keer de prijs in de American League.
www.rtl.nl
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Honkballer Ohtani
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TRAIN DREAMS is out in limited theatrical release today. It will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks, but here's the thing: If you are at all able to, you really should see it on a big screen. You will not regret it.
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
Train Dreams Is a Staggering Work of Art
Netflix is releasing one of the best films of the year but please, for the love of God, don’t watch this masterpiece on your phone.
www.vulture.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
TRAIN DREAMS is out in limited theatrical release today. It will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks, but here's the thing: If you are at all able to, you really should see it on a big screen. You will not regret it.
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
www.vulture.com/article/sund...
I was shown this in an intro film class in college and the two things I remember are how much our professor talked about Robert Mitchum’s butt and also how much the movie just knocked my socks off.
Watching Our of the Past. So much beauty, in the actors' faces & bodies as well as in the photography & staging (as in a fistfight that plays out partly in the shadows combatants cast on a wall). Very adult in its understanding of attraction and how one choice can trap you for life.
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I was shown this in an intro film class in college and the two things I remember are how much our professor talked about Robert Mitchum’s butt and also how much the movie just knocked my socks off.
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As someone who spent 7 years on NPR's digital desk rewriting/editing radio stories for the website, this is incredibly disappointing. I understand the financial strains they are under post-rescission, but this is not the way.
"Last week, NPR’s leadership proposed testing the use of artificial intelligence to produce digital versions of radio stories, to make the middle of the editorial process more efficient."
Please DM/email/signal me if you know something about this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Please DM/email/signal me if you know something about this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Who Wrote That Headline? Maybe a Robot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
As someone who spent 7 years on NPR's digital desk rewriting/editing radio stories for the website, this is incredibly disappointing. I understand the financial strains they are under post-rescission, but this is not the way.
And here’s one more!
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
And here’s one more!
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Again, 3 looks at game speed then decide. Play the damn game.
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Again, 3 looks at game speed then decide. Play the damn game.
Really far from the point, but since he mentioned it, one of the best movies ever made is from Lesotho
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Really far from the point, but since he mentioned it, one of the best movies ever made is from Lesotho
Just discovered I get really excited when I find out David Krumholtz is in a movie
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just discovered I get really excited when I find out David Krumholtz is in a movie
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The culmination of a lifelong dream…or nightmare? What a pleasure to cook this up with @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social (with an uncredited assist from Jay C); special thanx to Aliza at the Channel…
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The culmination of a lifelong dream…or nightmare? What a pleasure to cook this up with @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social (with an uncredited assist from Jay C); special thanx to Aliza at the Channel…
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This isn't Twitter or Facebook.
Links don't count against you.
We like to read.
Links don't count against you.
We like to read.
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This isn't Twitter or Facebook.
Links don't count against you.
We like to read.
Links don't count against you.
We like to read.
Another day, another game of “Who said it: Labour, Republicans, or Democrats?”
(I sometimes have to go three or four posts deep in a thread to find the answer.)
(I sometimes have to go three or four posts deep in a thread to find the answer.)
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Another day, another game of “Who said it: Labour, Republicans, or Democrats?”
(I sometimes have to go three or four posts deep in a thread to find the answer.)
(I sometimes have to go three or four posts deep in a thread to find the answer.)
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I tried to walk a fine line on this topic. I don't want people panicking in the streets about having their SSRIs taken away. But I do want people to realize that we may already be in the "Colin Powell at the UN" stage of this potential war.
I, for one, am pretty damn troubled by it all.
I, for one, am pretty damn troubled by it all.
Pretty important show this week, to be brutally honest.
It's about whether the U.S. government will take away your antidepressants.
Upshot: they absolutely want to. Will they? Well... not YET.
Don't panic. But pay attention. War may be coming.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
It's about whether the U.S. government will take away your antidepressants.
Upshot: they absolutely want to. Will they? Well... not YET.
Don't panic. But pay attention. War may be coming.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
Is the U.S. Government Going To Take Away Your Antidepressants? | Maximum Fun
Maybe not yet but the fact that it’s an issue is reason to learn a lot more and fast.
maximumfun.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I tried to walk a fine line on this topic. I don't want people panicking in the streets about having their SSRIs taken away. But I do want people to realize that we may already be in the "Colin Powell at the UN" stage of this potential war.
I, for one, am pretty damn troubled by it all.
I, for one, am pretty damn troubled by it all.
I grew up with the idea that ABBA was “bad” (not my parents’ fault, just one of those stupid cultural misunderstandings) and then my middle school friend-turned-college roommate made me listen to ABBA GOLD and I said, “wait, what the fuck, this is amazing”
Anyone who says they don’t like ABBA… I just feel sorry for them
third, you say this like Nile Rogers, infamously of the disco band Chic, doesn’t think ABBA are brilliant. i have video evidence of this. also watch this if you want to get your mind blown by how ABBA invented modern pop music
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I grew up with the idea that ABBA was “bad” (not my parents’ fault, just one of those stupid cultural misunderstandings) and then my middle school friend-turned-college roommate made me listen to ABBA GOLD and I said, “wait, what the fuck, this is amazing”
I’ve been watching a documentary about historical American-Japanese baseball relations tonight, good thing I haven’t missed anything in the meantime
October 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I’ve been watching a documentary about historical American-Japanese baseball relations tonight, good thing I haven’t missed anything in the meantime
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There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
October 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.
All advertising is so embarrassing
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
All advertising is so embarrassing
As someone who has no dog in the Dodgers-Phillies fight, I am enjoying fans of both teams assuming their team is absolutely going to lose this game
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
As someone who has no dog in the Dodgers-Phillies fight, I am enjoying fans of both teams assuming their team is absolutely going to lose this game
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"I need you to ban a usage that's been usaging since 1847."
That'd be: No.
That'd be: No.
October 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"I need you to ban a usage that's been usaging since 1847."
That'd be: No.
That'd be: No.
Well this interview with Newt Gingrich is about as helpful as you'd expect
September 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Well this interview with Newt Gingrich is about as helpful as you'd expect
Hello from Wichita
really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu
the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me
September 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hello from Wichita
Wtf that’s not what a flapjack is
September 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Wtf that’s not what a flapjack is
As someone who just started watching the series and thought, “this could be good but it could also go REALLY wrong,” I’m glad everyone’s letting me know I don’t need to continue.
the thing about alien earth is that peter pan is itself a very rich very fucked-up text and slapping its superficial trappings onto an already dense mythology without considering what those two stories actually mean to one another was an alarming sign from the jump
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
As someone who just started watching the series and thought, “this could be good but it could also go REALLY wrong,” I’m glad everyone’s letting me know I don’t need to continue.
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For your consideration: TRAIN DREAMS.
I think there are four certainties to get Best Picture nominations:
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet
Sentimental Value
The other six slots are WIDE open, and a lot will depend on box office/ public reception.
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet
Sentimental Value
The other six slots are WIDE open, and a lot will depend on box office/ public reception.
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
For your consideration: TRAIN DREAMS.