Does This Still Work?

He's half man and half vampire but all Wesley Snipes. Join the boys as they go back to 1998 and chat about the very first entry in what would one day become the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

https://riverside.fm/studio/253-blade-1998?t=3c5d9df1520f042d1442

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Wikipedia on Blade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(1998_film)

Facts about Blade

https://screenrant.com/blade-facts-didnt-know-about-franchise-movie/

This film is described as loosely based on the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics. But the word, loosely, is doing a lot of work there. Regardless of that though, does this picture still hold up?

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Interview with two of the REAL 1988 Jamaican Olympic Bobsledders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQkCemE_Xs

In popular culture the term Family Values originated with George W. Bush Administration and was used in the 1990s as shorthand for morally upright but really meant, no social safety net and "let's discriminate against The Gays." Fortunately, this movie has nothing to do with that so that's a point in its favor. But does it offer anything more?

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The Bobbitts

https://www.newspapers.com/image/980598140/?match=1&terms=Lorena%20Bobbitt%20

Lobster Boy

https://www.newspapers.com/image/738906479/?match=1&terms=Lobster%20Boy

Grady Stiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Stiles

Ojibwe - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe

It's our 250th episode! Join the boys in celebration by listening to them do what they do every week. But just because it's not out of the ordinary doesn't mean this episode isn't special. On today's show we look at a Japanese horror classic that is considered both feminist and anti feminist at the same time.

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Audition (The Movie) @ Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Audition_201702

Japanese Recession

https://www.newspapers.com/image/617859816/?match=1&terms=Japan%20

Dioxin

https://www.newspapers.com/image/618869283/?match=1&terms=Japan%20

Nuclear

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald/160444727/

Random facts

https://www.roughguides.com/articles/facts-about-japan/

Were this a drama, this would be the story of someone suffering from severe psychopathy but it's a comedy so when a kid sets up a blow torch to fry someone's scalp it becomes a laugh riot.

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High School Break In

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-breese-journal/159599925/

Big bucks

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times/159603091/

This story of a slaughterhouse employee living in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the late 70s certainly has it's fans but will the boys be among them?

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Watts Festival 1978

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/159070441/

Killer of Sheep Press Kit

https://www.killerofsheep.com/images/KOSfinalPK.pdf

Judas Goats: Agriculture's Bizarre, Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled the Killing Floor

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/beef/judas-goats-agricultures-bizarre-drug-addicted-masters-deceit-once-ruled-killing-floor

At one time in America you couldn't be a convicted felon and rapist and still get to be President of the United States. The boys take look at a film from that bygone era.

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Nixon defeats McGovern

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/09/archives/new-jersey-pages-president-won-49-states-and-521-electoral-votes.html

Real Reason for War On Drugs

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11278760/war-on-drugs-racism-nixon

Don't you forget about this movie. Don't, don't, don't, don't don't you, forget about this movie. Join the boys as they discuss this popular John Hughes flick otherwise they'll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby.

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Summer jobs

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/26/nyregion/summer-jobs-are-there-so-is-teen-ager-shortage.html

Teen preg

https://www.newspapers.com/image/340386956/?match=1&terms=teens

We pop back a mere 10 years ago (doesn't it seem longer than that?) and check out this film about black college students on a predominately white campus and the tensions that went along with it.

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Brock University Blackface

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard/158285707/

Arizona Blackout

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic/158286515/

Baby faced Randy Quid gets led to the hoosegow by a mustachioed Jack Nicholson and a not- as-famous-as-those-two-Otis Young. And that's it. That's the movie. Could a story this basic not work? Have a listen and find out.

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Sailors Smoke The Ganja

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal/156979164/

Black Sailors Complaints

https://www.newspapers.com/article/independent/156978658/

Sailor Given Prison Time

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/157018457/