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#514 - Sit Down, Sit Down
For seven weeks in 1936 and 1937, workers at the General Motors plant in Flint Michigan held a risky sit-down strike. A true David vs. Goliath story,…
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #513 - The Parallax View
Imagine a world where shadowy forces completely disconnected from democracy control everything. Friends, you don't have to imagine, because this worl…
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #512 - Walking Tall Speed Run
We follow up our recent episode on a 1973 law-and-order semi-classic by examining its Bush-era remake. We found a gentrified and sandpapered WALKING …
2 years, 6 months ago
#511 - All the President's Hot Dogs
In 1939, King George VI visited President Roosevelt to gain his support in the coming war. Some years later, it happened. As the Bill Murray vehicle …
2 years, 7 months ago
PREVIEW - #510 - 2017-core
Our Superdelgate patron tier has tasked us with discussed the sitcom THE GOOD PLACE, and it leads us down a dark and scary path of remembering cultur…
2 years, 7 months ago
#509 - Kung Fu Bicycles
For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and for a fee, they'l…
2 years, 7 months ago
PREVIEW - #508 - Spice World
An anti-imperial saga dreamed up by a Nixon-supporting conservative... a White Saviour narrative adapted to a time skeptical of White Saviours... fol…
2 years, 7 months ago
#507 - Fresh Prince of Persia
In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf …
2 years, 7 months ago
PREVIEW - #506 - Merchant Prince
Remember. Every day here, you're selling. Every thing you do, every interaction you have, every breath you take needs to be in the service of selling…
2 years, 7 months ago
#505 - The Party's Over
Against the backdrop of the incredibly boring 2000 election, the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman went on a cross-country journey to see if George …
2 years, 7 months ago