This week the guys try as vainly as they can to not yell at the Anti-Vaxxer crowd, and instead seek answers into how the country got where it is today, especially when it involves sympathy regarding dead anti-vaxx conservatives.
And so we begin, with a massive look at Seduction of the Innocent, the history of moral panics circa the 1950s, Frederic Wertham being a crappy researcher and Batman being a crappy boyfriend.
We may not be experts on the subject, but the least we [ought] do is recount our own experiences with the September 11 attacks and the 20-year aftermath. … More Are We Post-9/11?
This week the guys talk martial arts, with the look forward in a post-Shang Chi MCU and backward at a post-Enter the Dragon film genre. Surrounding the film commentary are discussions on the immediate aftermath of Bruce Lee’s passing, successors to his throne, “Brucesploitation”, Asian stars, and how things might’ve been different had Lee lived.
*CW*: child sex abuse and pedophillia. At the end of August 2021, frequent guest of the show Noah Berlatsky was cancelled online for partnering up with Prostasia, an organization whose goals and methods for realizing those goals inflame passions to say the very least. The guys pull apart the discussions of harm reduction, fostering allies, … More How Do You Know You Are Doing the Right Thing?
Battling tech issues, Stella returns along with a new angle on the conversation of Cancel Culture, analyzing specific case studies for examples of “good” and “bad” behavior. Do we leave those we used to love behind? Is it helpful to look up to others as aspirational? Comics, Sports, Comedians and Confederates are all discussed!
Funds, petitions, information, and who to follow on the latest tragic chapter of Afghanistan’s ongoing postcolonial crisis … More Afghanistan
On a rare daytime recording of QNA, Donovan and Harrison reconsider a late 20th-century “classic,” The Matrix. Does it hold up after all these years? Long ago, we were saturated by Matrix imitators and parody — but times have changed. Maybe old wounds have healed, and indeed, we’re seeing more Matrix on the horizon. Is this reality? … More [Don’t] Dodge This! The Matrix Commentary
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