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EPISODE 195: An American Original! – No apologies, no half-measures, all fire. (ft. Joe Buttice)
Episode Description:
Strap in for manifest destiny, surfboard theology, Cimmerian steel, and teenage guerrilla warfare.
Films Ranked:
Dillinger (1973) – Milius’s directorial debut, mixing gangster cool with mythic Americana.
Big Wednesday (1978) – A lyrical, wave-soaked ode to brotherhood and the end of an era.
Conan the Barbarian (1982) – Barbarism, Nietzsche, and epic vengeance in the Hyborian Age.
Red Dawn (1984) – Wolverines! Teenage insurgents defend America in a Cold War fever dream.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Joe defends Red Dawn as both fantasy and prophecy
Jason meditates on Big Wednesday as the most personal of war films
The complicated politics, masculine myth-making, and the man behind the bombast
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EPISODE 195: An American Original! – No apologies, no half-measures, all fire. (ft. Joe Buttice)
Episode Description:
Strap in for manifest destiny, surfboard theology, Cimmerian steel, and teenage guerrilla warfare.
Films Ranked:
Dillinger (1973) – Milius’s directorial debut, mixing gangster cool with mythic Americana.
Big Wednesday (1978) – A lyrical, wave-soaked ode to brotherhood and the end of an era.
Conan the Barbarian (1982) – Barbarism, Nietzsche, and epic vengeance in the Hyborian Age.
Red Dawn (1984) – Wolverines! Teenage insurgents defend America in a Cold War fever dream.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Joe defends Red Dawn as both fantasy and prophecy
Jason meditates on Big Wednesday as the most personal of war films
The complicated politics, masculine myth-making, and the man behind the bombast

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