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3: “Harmonious and Productive” – Election
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Movies, Music, TV and More… Nothing is Safe. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG takes a look back at beloved parts of pop culture from our formative years (1980-2000) and decides if they hold up today.
Episode 3 of WHEN WE WERE YOUNG assesses the candidates and votes unanimously for the 1999 Alexander Payne film ELECTION, starring Reese Witherspoon as overachieving high school honor student Tracy Flick, Matthew Broderick as moralistic and egotistical high school history teacher Jim McAllister, Chris Klein as polite and sweetly simple jock Paul Metzler, and Jessica Campbell as his rebellious and punk as hell lesbian sister Tammy Metzler.
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Trump Isn’t Just Trump
Pointing to Trump as The Crazy Guy, and not the embodiment of an entire ideological worldview America needs to actively reject for good, is really hurting every effort to stop him. Donald Trump is like all the bad ju-ju of America converging in one pulchritudinous host.
Trump is the bilge emanating from hundreds of years of fundamental American racism and warmongering, 60 years of The Southern Strategy (GOP appealing to racism to win elections), and over 30 years of Reaganomics (drown the government in the bathtub) and reactionary right-wing radio and television.
He’s not just Donald Trump. He’s Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones and Gordon Gekko and Jesse Helms and Sarah Palin and Drudge and Breitbart and Ann Coulter… We are all ultimately the characters we play, but Trump’s become the perfect distilled essence of everything that has always held America back from fulfilling itself – and humanity back from healing itself.
Fear and loathing. Greed and bloodlust.
Please observe what we’re being asked in this election: we’re only being asked to reject this one face of it. Don’t be fooled by the clown. We’re not actually being asked – being challenged – to reject this set of values for good and build a society that no longer rewards them.
2: “A Serious Cackling” – The Blair Witch Project
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In October of 1994, three podcasters disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland. Police were baffled by the podcasters’ vanishing… mostly because podcasting had not been invented yet. A year later the MiniDisc player they recorded to was discovered. 21 more years later, that recording is released here.
Just in time for Halloween (and yet another sequel), WHEN WE WERE YOUNG’s second episode tackles 1999’s unlikely horror hit THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Is the ultra-low-budget thriller still as groundbreaking as it was in the pre-smartphone era, or does it deserve to be banished to the woods? Kick your map in the creek, apologize to everyone’s moms, and follow us on this audible journey… because Becky totally knows where we’re going! Right, Becky? …Becky?
When We Were Young is a new podcast devoted to the most beloved pop culture of our formative years (roughly 1980-2000). Join us for a look back to the past with a critical eye on how these movies, songs, shows, and more hold up now.
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1: “We Got Cows” – Twister
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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG takes a look back at different beloved parts of pop culture from our formative years (1980-2000) and decides if they hold up today.
Strap yourself down to a pipe with us and enjoy our first episode as we revisit TWISTER, a 1996 Jan de Bont action thriller starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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By That I Mean – Episode 40: He’s Protecting That Squash!
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Happy 40th! The By That I Mean podcast issues our 40th episode before our 38th and 39th (which will be a double-episode with Chris Godwin!) because reasons.
Asia Coleman rejoins us to address the unintentional hiatus, the rise of #BlackLivesMatter, the need for more new political movements to push legislative change, the inadequacy of body cameras to stop police killing innocent black men, and the right-wing viciousness that won’t stop devolving as we enter the 2016 Presidential election cycle.
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