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Author, filmmaker and ardent basketball fan Sherman Alexie joins me to discuss one of my favorite topics: The 1990s. Though, to be honest, we stray from that subject and get into others subjects of interest. Such as!

* Rob Mahoney thinks “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is bad. Fair?

* Smells Like Teen Spirit changed everything

* What was the last great movie?

* Why, exactly, Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” became a hit again two decades later

* The cognitive dissonance for White Liberals seeing people who look and talk like them having different politics

* McDonald’s as blue collar space

* Sherman could plausibly be from half the world

* I’m mesmerized by how different the Canadians are

* Sports media’s been socially pressured into softness

* The laudable grandiosity of Timothée Chalamet

* The theory behind YouTube athletic stars

* Is more fictional content political or are we just more sensitive to political messages?

* Who are the ALL TIME “Pretendian” actors