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“People think we’re nice guys,” Fournier says, “but we’re going to prove (we’re jerks) with that show.”

The two admit they’re nerds, and as Gramiak notes over a rooftop beverage, “nothing makes a nerd happier than correcting someone else.”

We start by looking back four years and a bit.

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Q: How did it all get going?

Gramiak: It came about because we would bring movies to movie nights at friends’ places and expose them to all these horrible, horrible films and get our rights to bring films revoked.

Fournier: Banned!

Q: Can you give us an example?

Fournier: Men Behind the Sun. It’s a Japanese film the government sponsored, and that wanted to show the atrocities they did toward war victims. They show an actual body implode. There’s an actual autopsy in it. They actually had people donate their bodies to the film.

Gramiak: Irreversible got my privileges revoked. It’s notorious for a graphic rape scene and a guy getting his head bashed in with a fire extinguisher.

Q: Uh, why do guys like this stuff?

Fournier: It’s one of the most intelligent, most important films that’s ever been done. The director did not like that rape in movies is a plot device. The movie is shown (narratively) in reverse to show you what is done cannot be changed. It’s not entertainment.

Q: How did you come up with a live show for the 200th?

Fournier: We want to thank our guests. If people had to listen to just Gramiak and I talk …

Gramiak: Yeah, that got tired after the first 10 episodes, even to us. A guest is the engine. They bring passion into it, and there’s nothing more fun than antagonizing someone who is vehemently on side or opposed to a film. Sometimes we play dumb, just to see how much we can aggravate a guest.