5 Star Tossers

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This podcast we're discussing and dissecting Tiger, a 2021 HBO mini-series about the rise and Fall of Tiger Phallus.. sorry, I mean Tiger Woods.
Tiger's superhuman abilities are analyzed from an Oedipus Complex angle, leading us to speculate about how Earl (and his wife) had tweaked its mechanism to create the perfect golfing machine; the kind that plays golf in a manner closer to that of a machine or a person in the throes of a PTSD symptom. Something similar can be said of his "womanizing," another repetition of the/his father (but Jake disagrees, the nerve).
The golf club appears as the ultimate magic wand in this unholy alchemy, as we likened it to the phallic wedge which, in one of Lacan's analogies, keeps open the jaws of the crocodile (symbolizing the mother's desire). Of course, in his symptomatic identification with the club, with the game, with the drive(r), Tiger achieves both security and emptiness/alienation.
We tried to keep this one civilized, but you know how it is, someone says Freud and then it's just a penis joke away from the Patriarchy swamp...

The Stars that were tossed this time were Pervs 'R Us and Beast and Sovereign.

Oh boy. Jack introduced us to To Catch A Predator. So we try to define Perverted Justice, which is the name of the STING company that catches the predators. Jesus makes a cameo, there's some Derrida, and a whole bunch of Americana sanctimony.  We try not to spend too much time imitating Chris Hansen's voice. 

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In this slightly longer episode we tackle Gillian Flynn's and David Fincher's Gone Girl (2014), as a heteronormative woman's violent breakaway from a 'type' that she feels pulled towards in her marriage - unusual, impolite, homicidal, spectacular.
Channeling Valerie Solanas' Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM) - allowing this monstrosity to unfold on its own terms - reveals an inversion to existing 'types' and power dynamics in modern western heteronormative marriages. The male's distance-fantasy, when literally traversed by Amy's monstrosity, exposes many of Solanas' tropes in Amy's "husband" Nick: the masculine flirtation with death, hetero-men's shallow stake in life and experience, their deep-seated yearning for passivity, and, not least, the way all these find encouragement, indeed a "home," in the 'married couple.'
Also note Sagi's performative (and constative!) stupidity (in a rare shitshow of a disclaimer that we hope you survive).

This episode features the Beast and Sovereign and Pervs R' Us Stars, with some grudging Marx in the margins.

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We thought to explore various kill-shots in the video arena. Come one come all and listen as serious discussions of Freud's death-drive and Japanese Orientalism devolve into a mayhem of body parts and Semen. We tried to go beyond the pleasure principle, where no man had gone before, but some of us gripped firmly unto the edge and would not release. It all spun out of control Pervs R' Us style. Jake had a blast though. Pun?.. What pun?! 

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Sagi introduces us to the world of scambaiting, where YouTube content creators scam scammers. We discuss the dubious ethics of these scambaiters and compare it to the Hacker Ethos of free information. We defend the honor of the Indian scammers who get scammed and the Grandmas who these scambaiters often pretend to be.  We also fess up about some scams we have fallen for.  There's lots of Marx Grudge and Beast and Sovereign here, Enjoy!

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In this glorious installment we will be continuing our actor/acting thematic, this time thinking of Franz Kafka's 1922 short story Ein Hungerkünstler. 
Slog along as we  tarry a bit over the slim, somewhat Marxist contribution of the character's Pathos with regards to the reactionary-soporific functions of the Theater.  But then, rejoice with the tragic overabundance of life, as we  broach the fracking of Mount Sinai, interrogate false prophets of Dionysian intoxication, and Babel the shiznit out of trickless magicians and their monological art. 
The two stars being tossed (upon) today are "What Would Jesus Do" and "Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais".

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The Tossers obsess over the final scene of a Seinfeld episode (Season 6, Episode 23), where an actor bombs on stage and begs the audience to let her start again. Why, we wonder, is it impossible for her to start again? Why is the audience so cruel? Maybe she can start again? Along the way, we discuss Shakespeare, Hannah Gadsby, Aristotle's Catharsis, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, and Nietzsche's fear that actors now rule the world. 

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5 Star Tossers throw up their first video game toss, focusing on Bioshock Infinite, the 3rd installation of the Bioshock series. They debate whether there's racism in the way the Black uprising is portrayed. They also get lost in the pleasure they take in gameplay, wondering whether a video game's story is all that important. 

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Tossers turn to Julia Kristeva's abject to think about how repellant Megan Fox actually is in the 2009 film Jennifer's Body. Does she upset the hipster male gaze of the band Low Shoulder, or does she confirm its innermost secret? We also reference the SNL clip called The Librarian with Margot Robbie.

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5 Star Tossers throw some Hegel and Isaiah Berlin at you, in the name of freedom.  There's Positive Freedom, Negative Freedom, Absolute Freedom, and then the Good Ole' U.S. of A brand: don't tread on my property. Oh yeah, this is all framed around the Always Sunny in Philadelphia Episode entitled "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Asses"

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