It's an extremely discouraging political moment for our neighbors in the United States, so we decided the time was right to finally examine one of the quintessential cinematic articulations of American exceptionalism, FORREST GUMP (1994). Is life, in fact, like a box of chocolates? We investigate.

"The Man Who Loved Presidents: On John Meacham" by Thomas Frank - https://harpers.org/archive/2021/07/jon-meacham-thomas-frank-soul-of-america/

"Tom Hanks Explains It All" by David Marchese - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html

Michael and Us

#345 - At Long Last, the Forrest Gump Episode

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Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about the war in Ukraine, endless war, America's gun fetish, abortion, the fascists in our midst, and the Democrats, who enable them.

Chris Hedges (https://chrishedges.substack.com/) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He was the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact and now has a show at The Real News. 
Find all of his work at https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Relevant articles:

Fascists In Our Midst (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fascists-in-our-midst)

Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jesus-endless-war-and-the-rise-of)

America's Gun Fetish (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/americas-gun-fetish)

The Triumph Of Death (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-triumph-of-death)

No Way Out But War (https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war)

Chris Hedges On Christian Fascism And Democrats' Hypocrisy

Anders debates the JFK assassination with Professor Robert Buzzanco from the Green and Red podcast. Also Alex and Jake discuss roller coasters for 10 minutes.

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Anders Lee on Kennedy w/ Professor Robert Buzzanco

Charles and Alex check in on Akon's utopian crypto cities in Senegal and Uganda.

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127 - Return to Akon City

Abby and Robbie catch up on the last few weeks, including Robbie's
special visit to the last Shulgin BBQ before Anne passed away, "The
Boys" show bad and good empire babydom, the killing and political
legacy of Shinzo Abe, the insidious co-optation of the left into
reactionary politics, and the historic shift in Latin America from
countries like Chile and Colombia throwing off their neocolonial
chains.

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The Boys, Co-Opting the Left, Latin America Throws Off Neocolonial Shackles

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Ben Norton talks about China, Russia, Ukraine, NATO and a multipolar world. 

Ben Norton is a journalist, the editor of Multipolarista (https://multipolarista.com/) and a former editor at The Grayzone.

Ben Norton on NATO, China, Russia & A Multipolar World

Unlocked Patreon episode!
Bryan is back watching movies... but this time its all about reboots!
On this episode we talk about the  2012 remake of  Red Dawn.
Our special guest is the sweet boy himself Brett Pain

UNLOCKED: Street Fight Reviews the MCU: Rebooted - Red Dawn (2012)

Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the source of the problem in the corporate world. The Superdelegate patron tier has voted for us to watch one of the most beloved screen satires of all time, and we were happy to oblige.

See cohost Will introduce a screening of Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You (2013) at Toronto's Fox Theatre on August 23 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/dont-let-the-riverbeast-get-you-10th-anniversary/

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#355 - Omni Consumer Products

Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and discovered that Howard Beale's famous speech isn't even the most important speech in the movie.

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#357 - A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company

Sometimes we have to die.

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The new documentary ALEX'S WAR (2022) seeks to "look past the caricature" of the Infowars gadfly Alex Jones. Your hosts find themselves disagreeing on the usefulness of this nonjudgmental profile of the notorious conspiracy theorist.

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#359 - Alex's War

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