I used to love it as a kid but I watched it a few years ago and I found it to be boring. The action scenes weren't exciting, Nic Cage was pretty reserved and it was way too long.

so perfect that David A R White is the image for this ep, as he is the Kevin Bacon of the Christian cinematic universe. Hey, Scotty! Jesus, man!

You never know. I've heard what a lot of these people have to say about Catholics

It's pretty much the plot of a Jack Chick pamphlet, albeit with more of a focus on evolution than on God himself: https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0055

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/state-audit-says-film-companies-got-millions-they-shouldn-have/ZkxHDK2WQ2VfUcj0S1ZtUJ/

State audit says film companies got millions they shouldn’t have https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/state-audit-says-film-companies-got-millions-they-shouldn-have/ZkxHDK2WQ2VfUcj0S1ZtUJ/

Steve Harvey is "sassier" than that in any episode of Family Feud.  How are those characters racist?

phil

In this public News Brief we analyze the new Democratic nominee's "shift in tone" and whether more sophisticated Empathy-Speak and continued appeals to bogus "ceasefire negotiations" signifies a meaningful break from Biden.

News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot

In this public News Brief, we discuss a new, detailed media survey by Zach Siegel that shows how news outlets mindlessly parrot police "accidental fentanyl overdoes" misinformation.

                              

News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

In this public News Brief, we examine rightwing media's shameful incitement campaign against Haitian migrants and J.D. Vance's smarmy, grating rhetorical tactic of blaming nameless "constituents" for his stoking of a hate mob.

Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes

The boys catch up on the news events of the last two weeks

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Episode 360: On The Interregnum

Covering all the latest news this week!!!

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Episode 361: Biscoff Hijackers

In this News Brief, we discuss the Democratic nominee's overt embrace of conservative policy and politicians and the widespread, unchecked assumption that tracking right has zero electoral trade-offs.

News Brief: Harris' Mid 2000s Neocon Re-Brand and Centrist Voters as Free Real Estate

"An inflation conspiracy theory is infecting the Democratic Party," The Washington Post frets. "'Greedflation' is a nonsense idea," The Economist insists. "Harris' plan to stop price gouging could create more problems than it solves," CNN warns.

Over the last few years, as the prices of groceries, cars, and other necessities have risen, often dramatically, leading news outlets and influential pundits have claimed that these rising prices are simply a matter of supply and demand. Corporations aren't taking advantage of inflation, we’re told; they're simply responding to it. If materials are in short supply, or if there’s a surge in demand, retailers have no choice but to raise prices to control production flows and costs. Likewise, if prices of goods are significantly higher, then the people who want those goods enough to pay higher prices can still have them.

But these pat arguments don't hold up to scrutiny. Since the most recent round of inflation began, multiple studies have shown that corporations are indeed taking advantage of inflation, using tactics like price gouging to boost profits while creating barriers to quality food, medication, and other essentials. So what explains this discrepancy?

On this episode, we examine the tendency of media to defend corporate price-gouging and other inflationary maneuvers, how high status pundits and Serious Economists critique the White House from the right on this issue and condescend to anyone who might be even slightly suspicious that corporations are animated by something other than just the Invisible Hand, painting them as wacko conspiracy theorist who simply need to take the vaulted "Econ 101."

Our guest is the Revolving Door Project's Dylan Gyauch-Lewis.

Ep 210: Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "Greedflation" "Conspiracies"

We made an honest attempt to do Ethicist: Election Edition, but it quickly devolved because of our poor grasp on ethics. 

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Episode 365: Please Don't Feed The Alligators

Trillbillies Halloween Special 2024

Our long national nightmare is finally over. Wait...

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Episode 366: This Is How I Lose

On this episode we dive into America's first overseas war of Empire and how two racists from Nebraska started a war.

**Corrections**
Andres Bonifacio did not receive an education in spain and was not summerly executed. He was tried for a plot to overthrow the government and executed.

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Sources:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/06/102497181.pdf
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990801.2.111&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
https://books.google.com/books?id=fW_aeCJJ9J0C&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=N6nkB_PDdXcC

Episode 79 - Philippine American War Part 1: Thanks a lot Nebraska

The American Philippines War begins in earnest. America sets up a series of concentration camps and attempts to brutalize the Philippine people into submission. 

Enter the Machete of Freedom. 

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Episode 80 - Philippine American War Part 2: The Machete of Freedom

At the conclusion of our series on the Philippines American War we dive into the Moro Rebellion and American war crimes so prolific they are turned into things of legend in the modern day. 

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Episode 81 - Philippines American War Part 3: War Crimes and Misdemeanors

Clint Lorance killed two unarmed Afghan civilians in 2012.  

Clint Lorance is a free man. He walked out of the United States Army Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth at the order the President Donald J Trump on November 15, 2019.

This is the story of the war crime he committed. 

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Sources: 
https://taskandpurpose.com/think-lt-clint-lorance-murderer
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/01/army-officer-convicted-of-murder-in-afghanistan-to-get-another-look-by-civilian-court/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/without-a-doubt-in-my-mind-soldier-who-testified-against-clint-lorance-thinks-hes-guilty-despite-trump-pardon
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/us/jailed-ex-army-officer-has-support-but-not-from-his-platoon.html

Episode 82 - Clint Lorance is a Murderer

The last two decades have seen the release of a number of explicitly Christian movies which tell stories of believers navigating the trials and tribulations - both literal and figurative - of a perceived non-Christian world. In this universe, followers of Christ are constantly under siege by secularists, swarthy Muslims, gay and trans agenda-pushers, feminists and a hostile, out-of control federal government. 

While the media usually lumps these movies into a generalized “faith” category they are best viewed not as earnest meditations on religion and “faith,” but a political project on behalf of the Republican party, with a distinct protestant flavor. 

Today, we are going to focus on the biggest and most influential players in the “Christian cinema” space: production company and distributor PureFlix and Affirm, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Worldwide. Pureflix and Affirm embody the core ideological tropes of the U.S. conservative base: a promotion of US militarism, anti-Muslim racism, pro-capitalist messaging, hostility to LGBTQ populations, anti-Semitic Zionism and a runaway contempt for women.

On this episode, we’ll discuss how the Christian cinema industry is not just low-budget schlocky propaganda that’s fun to dunk on (though it certainly is), but something more deliberate, sinister, and corrosive––a state-subsidized, far-right messaging machine for American reactionaries and imperial interests. 

We are joined by author, artist and filmmaker Frank Schaeffer.

Episode 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex

Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind. 

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Episode 99 - French Invasion of Russia Part 5: Moscow is Decadent and Depraved.

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