Junk Filter

Jesse Hawken

jessehawken@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

A niche film, music, and popular-culture criticism podcast featuring external writers, podcasters, political commentators, and specialized cultural voices. Agencies could credibly pitch critics, journalists, filmmakers, music writers, podcasters, and knowledgeable commentators with distinctive perspectives on overlooked works; the accessible-professional guest profile suggests relatively low booking difficulty.

Metrics

Episodes: 209

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

jessehawken@gmail.com

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Host

Jesse Hawken - Host of Junk Filter, a podcast examining strange and overlooked artifacts from film, music, and popular culture through criticism, humor, and political commentary.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Writers, podcasters, political columnists, film critics, music specialists, and knowledgeable commentators with a strong perspective on distinctive or overlooked works in film, music, and popular culture.
Required Achievements:  

Recent Guest Discussions

Jeb Lund - Ella Mccay, Political Filmmaking, Liberal Hollywood, The West Wing, Hillary Clinton, And Popular Music.

Jared Bailey - Prefab Sprout’s Jordan: The Comeback, Album Structure, Songwriting, Production, And The Band’s Musical Influences.

Gus Lanzetta - Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures Of Ghosts And The Secret Agent, Brazilian Film, Recife, Memory, Family, And Resistance.

Recent Topics

Film, Music, Popular Culture, Politics, Film Criticism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Junk Filter
:

231: Ella McCay (with Jeb Lund)

July 10, 2026

Veteran political columnist Jeb Lund (@mobute) returns to the podcast to dissect Ella McCay, the baffling film that marks James L. Brooks’ return to the director’s chair after 15 years.Set in 2008, the film stars Emma Mackey (no relation) as an idealistic young lieutenant-governor vaulted by circumstance into the governor’s seat, only to be immediately dragged down by a political scandal involving her dim, manipulative husband (Jack Lowden) who hopes to "co-govern" the state with he...

TEASER - 230: Prefab Sprout: Jordan: The Comeback (with Jared Bailey)

April 01, 2026

Access this entire 161-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Prefab Sprout series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! https://www.patreon.com/posts/230-prefab-with-154429820On the fifth episode of the Junk Filter miniseries exploring the work of the cult UK band Prefab Sprout, Jared Bailey, the cohost of the Southern Accents pod, returns from Columbia, South Carolina to discuss their magnum opus, 1990’s Jordan: The Comeback.Conceived by frontman Paddy McAl...

229: The Secret Agent (with Gus Lanzetta)

March 13, 2026

CW: Spoilers for The Secret Agent.Writer and podcaster Gus Lanzetta joins us from São Paulo for a deep dive into two recent works of the great Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho.We explore how the northeastern coastal town of Recife serves as a lifelong muse for the director, starting with his 2023 personal "audio-visual essay," Pictures of Ghosts, which maps the fading movie palaces of his youth.That film sets the stage for his newest period piece, The Secret Agent, a “hangou...

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