Episode Details

Nathan and Ryan dive into Protocol (1984), the Goldie Hawn–led political comedy where a well-meaning Washington D.C. tour guide accidentally becomes an international diplomatic incident. The hosts unpack the film’s fish-out-of-water humor, Cold War–era politics played for laughs, and how Hawn’s charm carries a movie that lives somewhere between satire and mainstream ’80s studio comedy. From embassy etiquette to media spin, this episode looks at Protocol as both a lighthearted star vehicle and a strange time capsule of Reagan-era optimism and political simplicity.