Donnie Smith
@donniesmith.bsky.social
Actor, Voice-Over Artist, Writer, Co-host of “I Like to Watch” podcast, Co-founder of L.A. Camerata (a 501c3 non-profit arts org).
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Episode 103 is now live! The Challenge? Any noir from 1940 - 1959. @donhall.bsky.social goes to the very edge with 1958’s Touch of Evil.
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I Like to Watch Ep. 103 - Touch of Evil (1958) — LITERATE APE
The Challenge? Any noir from 1940 - 1959. Hall goes to the very edge with 1958’s Touch of Evil.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Episode 103 is now live! The Challenge? Any noir from 1940 - 1959. @donhall.bsky.social goes to the very edge with 1958’s Touch of Evil.
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Episode 102 is now live! For the very first I Like to Watch Challenge, @donhall.bsky.social tossed Tilda Swinton to @donniesmith.bsky.social. He chose the bizarre reimagining that is 2018’s Susperia.
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I Like to Watch Ep. 102 - Suspiria (2018) — LITERATE APE
For the very first I Like to Watch Challenge, Don tossed Tilda Swinton Donnie’s way. He chose the bizarre reimagining that is 2018’s Susperia.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Episode 102 is now live! For the very first I Like to Watch Challenge, @donhall.bsky.social tossed Tilda Swinton to @donniesmith.bsky.social. He chose the bizarre reimagining that is 2018’s Susperia.
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@barstoolsport.bsky.social what time are you leaving NYC? Wanna make sure folks can line the streets to flip you off on your way out.
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Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’
Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
@barstoolsport.bsky.social what time are you leaving NYC? Wanna make sure folks can line the streets to flip you off on your way out.
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@carolinerenard.bsky.social My wife & I framed this treasure in our house so that our daughter will always know what’s up. Lil One just spelled the word out the other day - V O T E - and asked what that meant, so we told her, and WILL continue to do so again and again and again.
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
@carolinerenard.bsky.social My wife & I framed this treasure in our house so that our daughter will always know what’s up. Lil One just spelled the word out the other day - V O T E - and asked what that meant, so we told her, and WILL continue to do so again and again and again.
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Episode 101 is our Halloween treat to you! In this second half, the movies get a bit threadbare. @donniesmith.bsky.social then offers up an absolute must-see list of scary films to watch guaranteed to make you wet yourself!
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I Like to Watch Ep. 101—Our Trip to Camp Crystal Lake (1988 - 2009) Part Two — LITERATE APE
Friday the 13th
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October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Episode 101 is our Halloween treat to you! In this second half, the movies get a bit threadbare. @donniesmith.bsky.social then offers up an absolute must-see list of scary films to watch guaranteed to make you wet yourself!
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Episode 100 is now live! @donniesmith.bsky.social levels the ultimate Halloween task: watch all twelve of the Friday the 13th movies and then podcast about all of them! This first episode the boys cover the first six films in the franchise.
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I Like to Watch Ep. 100—Our Trip to Camp Crystal Lake (1980 - 1986) Part One — LITERATE APE
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
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October 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Episode 100 is now live! @donniesmith.bsky.social levels the ultimate Halloween task: watch all twelve of the Friday the 13th movies and then podcast about all of them! This first episode the boys cover the first six films in the franchise.
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Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.
You can’t do this kinda demo/reno when you’re renting. This guy thinks it’s HIS house and he has no plans to move out.
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
You can’t do this kinda demo/reno when you’re renting. This guy thinks it’s HIS house and he has no plans to move out.
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Laugh and laugh and laugh at this pissant little clown; the more we laugh, the better chance he has a fatal stroke or heart attack. Laugh away, my friends!!! He’s not a king, he’s the court jester.
I present to you the thinnest skinned fascist in history.
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Laugh and laugh and laugh at this pissant little clown; the more we laugh, the better chance he has a fatal stroke or heart attack. Laugh away, my friends!!! He’s not a king, he’s the court jester.
Tomorrow I will be carrying this sign that was gifted to me at the first No Kings protest back in June. Show me YOUR signs!!! And if you don’t have one, don’t worry, your presence matters. Who knows, you may be handed a sign while you’re out there. Take it and hold it high.
October 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tomorrow I will be carrying this sign that was gifted to me at the first No Kings protest back in June. Show me YOUR signs!!! And if you don’t have one, don’t worry, your presence matters. Who knows, you may be handed a sign while you’re out there. Take it and hold it high.
First time at the gorgeous Vista for a morning showing. Solid flick.
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
First time at the gorgeous Vista for a morning showing. Solid flick.
Happy Columbo Day to those who celebrate!
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Happy Columbo Day to those who celebrate!
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Episode 99 is now live! It’s Halloween Month, @donniesmith.bsky.social ‘s favorite of the year! This episode @donhall.bsky.social picks one of the greatest horror classics ever made: The Exorcist! Also available on Apple Podcasts.
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I Like to Watch Ep. 99 — The Exorcist (1973) — LITERATE APE
It’s Halloween Month—Donnie’s favorite of the year! This episode Hall picks one of the greatest horror classics ever made: The Exorcist!
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October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Episode 99 is now live! It’s Halloween Month, @donniesmith.bsky.social ‘s favorite of the year! This episode @donhall.bsky.social picks one of the greatest horror classics ever made: The Exorcist! Also available on Apple Podcasts.
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Hey Chicago friends, go see my dumb face in The Midnight Meat Train on the big screen at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social! I never got to since Lionsgate originally dumped it in like 2 theaters. If I were back home I’d go for sure.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Hey Chicago friends, go see my dumb face in The Midnight Meat Train on the big screen at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social! I never got to since Lionsgate originally dumped it in like 2 theaters. If I were back home I’d go for sure.
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What depths of awfulness this administration hath wrought. A man of peace being assaulted for standing up for “the least among us” (Matthew 25). 77.3 million people are irredeemably responsible for this and every single awful act delivered by the monsters they’ve unleashed upon us.
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
What depths of awfulness this administration hath wrought. A man of peace being assaulted for standing up for “the least among us” (Matthew 25). 77.3 million people are irredeemably responsible for this and every single awful act delivered by the monsters they’ve unleashed upon us.
Fuck every one of these chump ass, check-cashing sellouts cunts & pricks for agreeing to, “speech restrictions,” AND for yucking it up for folks who financed 9/11. You took BLOOD MONEY, you fuckin jagoffs. May you & your heirs die of every pain and suffering imaginable.
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Fuck every one of these chump ass, check-cashing sellouts cunts & pricks for agreeing to, “speech restrictions,” AND for yucking it up for folks who financed 9/11. You took BLOOD MONEY, you fuckin jagoffs. May you & your heirs die of every pain and suffering imaginable.
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@donniesmith.bsky.social goes for a Big Swing with a Stacked Cast that improbably is a Great Movie: Con Air!
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I Like to Watch Ep. 98 — Con Air (1997) — LITERATE APE
Donnie goes for a Big Swing with a Stacked Cast that improbably is a Great Movie: Con Air!
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September 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@donniesmith.bsky.social goes for a Big Swing with a Stacked Cast that improbably is a Great Movie: Con Air!
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How did the rapture go? I was cutting my hair. My cats are hungry. The mail came. Hmmm… Did I miss it?
September 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
How did the rapture go? I was cutting my hair. My cats are hungry. The mail came. Hmmm… Did I miss it?
Fuck. These. Jagoffs.
I will give up my First Amendment when you pry it from my cold dead mouth.
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I will give up my First Amendment when you pry it from my cold dead mouth.
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DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement | Homeland Security
Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car a...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Fuck. These. Jagoffs.
I will give up my First Amendment when you pry it from my cold dead mouth.
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I will give up my First Amendment when you pry it from my cold dead mouth.
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When this jagoff eats dust the WORLD will celebrate, and no one will be able to stop it. Mors nos omnes capiet. My only sadness is the guest of honor won’t be at the party.
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
When this jagoff eats dust the WORLD will celebrate, and no one will be able to stop it. Mors nos omnes capiet. My only sadness is the guest of honor won’t be at the party.
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Episode 97 is now live! @donhall.bsky.social likes the weird stuff; @donniesmith.bsky.social not so much. Thus we engage about Julie Taymor’s Beatles juke box epic, Across the Universe.
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I Like to Watch Ep. 97 — Across the Universe (2007) — LITERATE APE
Hall likes the weird stuff; Donnie not so much. Thus we engage about Julie Taymor’s Beatles juke box epic, Across the Universe
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September 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Episode 97 is now live! @donhall.bsky.social likes the weird stuff; @donniesmith.bsky.social not so much. Thus we engage about Julie Taymor’s Beatles juke box epic, Across the Universe.
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How about that? A country actually doing the right thing to punish an appointed official linked to Epstein. Wish we could do the same here as opposed to having a cult that supports sex offenders.
NEW: UK Ambassador to US has now been fired in light of new, additional information regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. This information came to light after the publication of the Epstein Birthday Book.
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U.K. ambassador to U.S. fired over Epstein links
Veteran politician Peter Mandelson has come under scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How about that? A country actually doing the right thing to punish an appointed official linked to Epstein. Wish we could do the same here as opposed to having a cult that supports sex offenders.
“Hate is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
~ Alexandre Dumas
~ Alexandre Dumas
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“Hate is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
~ Alexandre Dumas
~ Alexandre Dumas
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Episode 96 is now live! The pod’s good friend George Gallo pulls out all the stops with his choice of Sydney Pollack’s Castle Keep. Listen at the link below or on Apple Podcasts.
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I Like to Watch Ep. 96 — Castle Keep (1969) w/ George Gallo — LITERATE APE
The pod’s good friend George Gallo pulls out all the stops with his choice of Sydney Pollack’s Castle Keep.
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August 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Episode 96 is now live! The pod’s good friend George Gallo pulls out all the stops with his choice of Sydney Pollack’s Castle Keep. Listen at the link below or on Apple Podcasts.
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