Luke Savage is on a last name basis with his boss, Yevgeny Pringlescan. Glad he kept his Russia Today takes to a relative minimum rather than going full Alex Jones-esque denial of social medias influence on elections as if the Rohingya genocide didn't occur and Cambridge Analytica didn't exist. So at least that didn't happen. They haven't invited someone literally from RT on the show in a few years, so that is a sign of improvement. They still sound like weiners though.

The mysterious monument known as the Georgia Guidestones — "America's Stonehenge" — was recently destroyed. We cover how it was built in 1980 on a grazing pasture, why it created controversy, and its eventual bombing. Then we broach Bobby Crimo III, the recent mass shooter in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. To help us understand his digital footprint, we speak to Emmi Conley, an independent researcher of far-right extremist movements, digital propaganda and online subcultures. She discusses "schizoposting", "gore" forums and what happens when white supremacist ideology isn't a straightforward key to understanding a mass shooter's actions.

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Biden’s administration used an Air Force F-22 Raptor jet fighter and Raytheon’s Sidewinder missile, to shoot down a meandering Chinese balloon on Saturday. Republicans in Congress called the balloon a “show of force,” and Biden canceled Secretary of State Blinken’s trip to China.

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Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin Magazine's Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic for a roundtable discussion of EMPIRE RECORDS (1995). We proffer some theories about why this attempt to hit the Gen X zeitgeist actually resonated more strongly with millennials, and how its depiction of alt-culture proved life-changing for at least one of the panelists.

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#405 - Empire Records: A Michael & Us Symposium (w/ Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic)

We discuss the man with a beard under his fist: Chuck Norris.

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Charles and Alex debate the best instruments starting with Z and Alex goes track by track reviewing Lana Del Rey's latest album. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

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Did Tetris bring down the USSR? That's the implication of TETRIS (2023), a highly fictionalized account of the beloved video game's journey from the Soviet Union to your phone. We examine what anti-Communist kitsch looks like in the year 2023. PLUS: Russian coups, disappearing subs, and further thoughts on the movie on everyone's lips, The Flash.

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#438 - In Soviet Russia, Game Plays You

Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) hit the zeitgeist by consciously going against the 2019-era cultural grain. Tarantino looks back on the winds of change that greeted the movie business in the late 1960s and lands firmly - but not uncomplicatedly - on the side of the old guard. PLUS: Bluesky vs Twitter, wrapping up the Toronto mayoral election, and checking in on a man by the name of Lights Camera Jackson.

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#440 - Deaths of Cinema

Andrew, Lucy and Theo bring you: Americans who can't stop showing Instagram Live to gorillas, a stolen alligator, a garbage man who has simply had enough, the world's slowest police chase and more

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Reports of God's death remain greatly exaggerated in GOD'S NOT DEAD 2 (2016), in which Evangelical Christianity is put literally on trial. We welcome back Alex Shephard (staff writer for The New Republic and expert in the blockbuster Christian film franchise), and discuss how this instalment's relentless focus on Facts and Logic situates it in a recent but very different era of the culture war. PLUS: Ron DeSantis continues to have no juice.

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#444 - He's Surely Alive (w/ Alex Shephard)

Writer Miles Klee joins Lucy, Andrew and Ben to discuss: An egg reunion 72 years in the making, a $10 million ham, a mystery sound in Pennsylvania, and interacting with the public art in Geneva.
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