How the film Jojo Rabbit was birthed from a tragic book, the history of Hitler satire, and what all the dictators are writing about. Jojo Rabbit is out now, starring Taika Waititi, based on the book Caging Skies by Christine Leunens.

Watch/read/listen:

(WATCH) the trailer for Jojo Rabbit:

(WATCH) the Mercedes commercial the author of Caging Skies modeled in:

(WATCH) an Interview with Christine Leunens about New Zealand:

(WATCH) Taika Waititi falling asleep at the Oscars:

(WATCH) Taika’s short film, Two Cars One Night:

(WATCH) The Great Dictator - full film (1940):

(WATCH) the trailer for The Producers (1967):

(WATCH) the film Look Who’s Back on Netflix:

(WATCH) the trailer for the Australian show Danger 5:

(READ) about the store in India called Hitler:

(READ) about “What Can We Learn from Dictator’s Literature?”:

(READ) about “Hitler’s Forgotten Library”:

(LISTEN): to a New Zealand radio interview with Christine Leunens about the film adaptation:

Get a copy of Caging Skies, the book Jojo’s based on:

Topics from today’s episode:

00:01 - a Nancy Drew collector hit us up

03:20 - Caging Skies is wildly different

07:20 - The supermodel who wrote Caging Skies

10:00 - this story happened to her friend

11:40 - how it’s Taika Waititi’s mom’s fault

18:50 - the history of Hitler parodies

27:20 - Saddam Hussein wrote romance fiction

29:40 - Hitler’s secret library

31:10 - the future of satirizing Hitler?

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