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Sing, muse, of this summer’s blockbuster movie event! The shuffle bois have opened their bag of winds and been blown off course from their regular scheduled programming of 2000s content to review Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. After giving some background on the world, compositional nature, and characters of the Homeric source material, the Shuffle bois trace the sprawling plot of the film before turning to its themes, including proper guest-host etiquette (xenia), the bronze age apocalypse, guilt and trauma, fate and hubris, and human-divine relations. 

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This week, we’re unpacking Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, the latest project from BlackBerry director Matt Johnson. From its origins as a webseries in the 2000s, to it’s Vice Cable channel (?) show, to the now first (good) "time travel to the 2000s" movie.

Join us as we break down the manic, delusional duo of Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll. We discuss:  Nostalgia, Guerrilla Filmmaking, Canadian Identity, and Postmodernism.

The Shuffle Bois return to the well of 2000s Sword and Sandal films with the movie that started it all, Ridley Scott's 200 film Gladiator. After setting the table with some historical context about how the Roman Empire worked and the nature of actual historical gladiators, they turn to the film itself. They discuss the film's very end of history take on Roman history and politics, the nature of spectacle in a highly stylized film, the sexless hedonism of Gladiator, and its anachronistic view of patriotism. They close out with Ben giving a little book report on a wacky late antique primary source on the emperor Commodus and lamenting the film that might have been.

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Raise Your Glass-Stegal, tonight’s the night, this podcast episode will go on forever, but it’s also the last podcast of your life. Remember Shuffle regular Colette Shade joins us to talk about the culture of the Great Recession: Recession Pop, Stomp Clap, the Death of Bling Rap, DIY, Prepping, Indiesleaze, and so much more—forget the banking executives, let’s do a people’s history of the Great Recession.

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Articles mentioned in the episode:

This shitty vice article on how no pop acts responded to the Great Recession:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/30/17561470/music-of-inequality

This blog post on Recession Pop:

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/10/21/tik-tok-post-crash-party-pop-compulsory-presentism-and-the-2008-financial-collapse/ 

This Defector piece on Stomp Clap Hey:

https://defector.com/the-tragedy-of-stomp-clap-hey 

This other blog post on Stomp Clap Hey music:https://dirt.fyi/article/2021/11/stomp-clap-hey?utm_source=chatgpt.com 

Another piece on the History of Stomp Clap Hey music:https://www.culturesonar.com/stomp-clap-hey-a-short-lived-genre/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 

This piece on Obamacore:

https://www.vulture.com/article/obamacore-obama-pop-culture-kamala-harris.html 

This article on how the Great Recession changed hiphop:

https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/111904168/Gilbers2018_Chapter_HowTheFinancialCrisisChangedHi.pdf 

Colette’s essay on the recession

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/great-recession-what-happened-aftermath-trump

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The Shuffle bois are joined by resident fashion correspondent Colette Shade author of “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on a future that never was.”) to review a masterpiece of 2000s cinema, The Devil Wears Prada. This is a film that simultaneously attempts to be a scathing satire of the fashion industry, a character study of an anti-hero in a deeply flawed industry, and a paint-by-numbers rom com about a woman trying to have it all. After describing its characters, plot, and style, the crew digs down into some of the film's themes, including its schizophrenic relationship to the fashion industry, its view of aestheticism and culture, and how Miranda Priestly functions as a Michael Mann protagonist. They close out by briefly discussing the 2026 fan-service sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2, which attempts to criticize capitalism and consultants without using the word capitalism.

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In part four of their ongoing series on the Great Recession, the Shuffle Bois turn to a topic near and dear to their hearts, the automotive bailouts of 2008/9. When cheap and easy credit dried up due to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the dominos of financialization began to fall, the three struggling American automotive companies were hit particularly hard. In this episode, the shuffle bois go through the history of the automotive industry, laying out both its long term chronic and short term acute issues, before tracing the Obama administration's response. It's a sprawling episode covering labour relations, corporate mismanagement, globalization, the place of the car in American identity, financialization and private equity, and environmentalism

Bibliography:

Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit: I do mind dying. Cambridge: South End Press, 1998

Paul Ingrassia, Crash Course: the American auto industry's road to bankruptcy and bailout - and beyond. New York: Random House, 2011

Steven Rattner, Overhaul: an insider's account of the Obama administration's emergency rescue of the auto industry. Boston: Mariner Books, 2011

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Honey, I shrunk the stimulus! In their third entry on the Great Recession, the Shuffle Bois trace President Obama's response to a cratering economy. After introducing the cast of neolib ghouls with whom Obama surrounded himself, they go through the history of Fall and Winter 2008/9 up to Obama's signing of the stimulus package. They also discuss Keynesianism, the Cassandras of the time, what might have been, and the Clintonite presidency that we actually got.

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Remember Shuffle turns to one of the most average "indie" bands of the 2000s, The Killers. After briefly describing the history of this group, the Shuffle Bois do three album reviews of the Killers' 2000 discography, tracing their evolution from something resembling a post-punk revival act to something resembling Bruce Springsteen-inspired heartland rock. They also discuss the reverse British invasion, indie sensibilities, the beautiful mind of Brandon Flowers, and the place of the Sun Belt in the 2000s.

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We Watched the Watchmen (2009). The 200s most underdiscussed super hero movie, we are going to Deconstruct the Deconstructors in this weeks episode, looking at how the 1980s alternate history comic by Alan Moore was adapted for a late-2000s audience by Zach Snyder. Watchmen as a movie fits perfectly in the 2000s as a reaction to the suite of movies that had come out in the decade–as it itself is a criticism of myth, exceptionalism, and marketing. 

We are joined by Discourse Stu of Marvelous! Or, The Death Of Cinema, you can find them:

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In episode two of their ongoing series on The Great Recession, the Shuffle Bois turn to the folks who profited from the collapse of the housing market, as described and immortalized in Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short" and its 2015 film adaptation. After describing the major characters of this story, they then turn to a plot summary of the film, peppering in some digressions on 2000s culture and the nature of sub prime lending companies. Then, as always, they turn to their themes and big ideas, including the enrichment of the contemptible and the noxious social effects of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy.

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Bibliography:

Bethany McLean and Joseph Nocera, All the Devils are Here (New York: Penguin), 2011

Gregory Zuckerman The Greatest Trade Ever Made (New York: Crown Business), 2010

Michael Lewis, The Big Short (San Francisco: Hyperink), 2012