the Mildly Frumpy Protagonist

Movies, Music, TV and More... Nothing is Safe. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG takes a look back at beloved parts of pop culture from our formative years (1980-2000) and decides if they hold up today.

Episode 3 of WHEN WE WERE YOUNG assesses the candidates and votes unanimously for the 1999 Alexander Payne film ELECTION, starring Reese Witherspoon as overachieving high school honor student Tracy Flick, Matthew Broderick as moralistic and egotistical high school history teacher Jim McAllister, Chris Klein as polite and sweetly simple jock Paul Metzler, and Jessica Campbell as his rebellious and punk as hell lesbian sister Tammy Metzler.

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In October of 1994, three podcasters disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland. Police were baffled by the podcasters' vanishing... mostly because podcasting had not been invented yet. A year later the MiniDisc player they recorded to was discovered. 21 more years later, that recording is released here.

Just in time for Halloween (and yet another sequel), WHEN WE WERE YOUNG's second episode tackles 1999's unlikely horror hit THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Is the ultra-low-budget thriller still as groundbreaking as it was in the pre-smartphone era, or does it deserve to be banished to the woods? Kick your map in the creek, apologize to everyone's moms, and follow us on this audible journey... because Becky totally knows where we're going! Right, Becky? ...Becky?

When We Were Young is a new podcast devoted to the most beloved pop culture of our formative years (roughly 1980-2000). Join us for a look back to the past with a critical eye on how these movies, songs, shows, and more hold up now.

You can follow us on Twitter at @WWWYshow, on Facebook at @WWWYShow, you can Email us at [email protected], and don't forget to Subscribe on iTunes!

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG takes a look back at different beloved parts of pop culture from our formative years (1980-2000) and decides if they hold up today.

Strap yourself down to a pipe with us and enjoy our first episode as we revisit TWISTER, a 1996 Jan de Bont action thriller starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Happy 40th! The By That I Mean podcast issues our 40th episode before our 38th and 39th (which will be a double-episode with Chris Godwin!) because reasons.

Asia Coleman rejoins us to address the unintentional hiatus, the rise of #BlackLivesMatter, the need for more new political movements to push legislative change, the inadequacy of body cameras to stop police killing innocent black men, and the right-wing viciousness that won't stop devolving as we enter the 2016 Presidential election cycle.

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The 37th BY THAT I MEAN podcast wonders why we're stuck in a reality centered around profit and undercompensated labor, and breaks down the various ways it breaks each of us down.

Our reality is still one where men are not equal to women. Our reality is still one where non-white people are still considered less human, or something other than the default of humanity. Our collective models of reality no longer fit the truth of our lives, and so many of our discussions are getting harder and breaking down what should be common ground because we aren't talking about the greater systemic processes at play.

Episodes 35-37 of the BY THAT I MEAN podcast explore the ways in which our entire country and American society have been reorganized around short-term profit and predatory capitalism. You can listen to them all to hear the whole conversation, but any one of them also stands alone.

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The BY THAT I MEAN podcast continues to dismantle reality in our 36th outing. My conversation with Ikoi turns to the perils of organizing a society around fear, loathing and naked greed - and the predatory capitalism we must let go to move ahead.

Our reality is still one where men are not equal to women. Our reality is still one where non-white people are still considered less human or something other than the default of humanity. Our collective models of reality no longer fit the truth of our lives, and so many of our discussions are getting harder and breaking down what should be common ground because we aren't talking about the greater systemic processes at play.

These next episodes of the BY THAT I MEAN podcast explore the fictitious nature of our shared dominant realities (the stories we individually and collectively tell ourselves about what is "real" or ought to be). We talk about the vulnerability and emotional nature of memory. We realize that there is one dominant illusory "reality" around which our whole society has become reorganized: the idea that short-term profit is an inherent moral good.

Thank you for listening to the BY THAT I MEAN podcast. BY THAT I MEAN is a production of the MFP Studio Studio in Los Angeles, CA. Please subscribe to us on iTunes, and if you enjoy it leave us a hyperbolic 5-star review. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mildly-frumpy-protagonist/id439572026?mt=2

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The BY THAT I MEAN podcast dismantles reality.

Our reality is still one where men are not equal to women. Our reality is still one where non-white people are still considered less human or something other than the default of humanity. Our collective models of reality no longer fit the truth of our lives, and so many of our discussions are getting harder and breaking down what should be common ground because we aren't talking about the greater systemic processes at play.

These next episodes of the BY THAT I MEAN podcast explore the fictitious nature of our shared dominant realities (the stories we individually and collectively tell ourselves about what is "real" or ought to be). We talk about the vulnerability and emotional nature of memory. We realize that there is one dominant illusory "reality" around which our whole society has become reorganized: the idea that short-term profit is an inherent moral good.

Thank you for listening to the BY THAT I MEAN podcast. BY THAT I MEAN is a production of the MFP Studio Studio in Los Angeles, CA. Please subscribe to us on iTunes, and if you enjoy it leave us a hyperbolic 5-star review. Gene Shalit that shit! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mildly-frumpy-protagonist/id439572026?mt=2

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In the 34th BY THAT I MEAN, Ikoi and Seth ignore the political outrages of the week and focus on one crucial subject the US media won't touch: K-12 education, specifically the "school reform" movement. We learn that the demonization of teachers and teaching is being used as a smokescreen to hide the true purpose of the "school reform" movement, which is to profitably privatize yet another desperately-needed public good - the promise of a good education for every American citizen. And of course the Koch brothers are in on it.

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The supersized 33rd BY THAT I MEAN podcast is action-packed with news that the news didn't give you. Ikoi Hiroe and Seth Pierson discuss inspiring citizens and politicians in Texas fighting a Republican crusade to legislatively ban abortion, a defense contractor leaking details of the secret government and warped priorities of America's post-9/11 "security" state, and how to navigate the perfect storm of broken systems that currently stand in the way of progress. Finally, we update you on what's going on in Egypt - where a democratic revolution ended a dictatorship, elections resulted in an oppressive religious theocracy, and the theocracy was deposed by a military coup.

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