WHY CAN’T ANYONE ELSE TAKE A MENTAL DUMP AND/OR LET THEIR FORMAL FREAK FLAG FLY ON FILM?! we ask in our conversation about Charlie Kaufman’s 2020 I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

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We did sports words and thoughts over the 2020 Netflix-ESPN documentary The Last Dance, about Space Jam actor Michael Jordan and several non-Space Jam actors on the Chicago Bulls as they pursue excellence in 90s earth basketball. Cheryl rises to the moment. Joe gets sportsbrain trying to talk about sportsbrain. Enjoy. Stay safe. Pray the rims return to American stanchions.

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We talk about 2019’s The Assistant, an icy, realist examination of a tyrannical boss, sexual abuse, and complicity in the workplace.

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We don’t have anything to say about the show that most people are watching or recently watched and are experiencing as a gummy cavity where their time was: Floor Is Lava.

Don’t watch it. Or do. Nothing matters. Floor is lava.

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Book club is back. We discuss the first chapter of Jackson Rising (Daraja Press, 2017) and Cooperation Jackson’s expansive vision. We don’t do Patreon or merch or anything here, but if you’re a fan of the podcast, we’d love it if you donate to Cooperation Jackson or Buffalo’s Black Love Resists in the Rust.

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What does it mean in the year of our Lord 2020 to seek out media that is not produced by profit-driven, morally bankrupt, corporate machines? 

Means TV — self-billed as the world’s first worker-owned, post-capitalist streaming service — is here to help answer that. They’ve got documentaries, shorts, news, cartoons, satirical Buzzfeed-y life hack videos, and a whole bunch of other stuff. We checked out some of their offerings, including a documentary about Matewan and Appalachia’s labor history, a moving and spare film about a Syrian refugee trying to get by in New Jersey, and shaggy animated videos about two cats in revolt against their owner. It’s all a wild ride, and worth exploring. We talk media consumption, worker-owned collectives, and fighting the good fight while having fun.

It wasn’t until after we recorded our conversation about Netflix’s Tiger King that we realized the hit documentary series is a mirror and what it shows is inscrutable. But that didn’t stop us! We cover labor, misogyny, Edward Said, spectacle, captivity, electoral politics, exploitation, the exotic-animal-owner-as-colonizer, polyamory, true crime, and lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my.

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While we’re all marooned at home baking bread in sweatpants and trying to make friends with our very legitimate and mounting anxieties, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had an on-fire Zoom conversation about coronavirus capitalism and how to beat it. Haymarket Books (as always, a model publisher for the people) hosted, and thousands of people tuned in. Their conversation of course sparked our own conversation about how to think through what’s happening now and where we need to go from here.
Watch their talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0&t=7s. Then listen to us get rrrlll political up in here.

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For some reason we’ve been watching movies about pandemics to escape from the pandemic. We thought we’d take the Bruce Willis/Brad Pitt time-traveling, plague-spewing 12 Monkeys for a ride. We found it mostly underwhelming, so we spent the majority of the episode talking about what the FUCK is going on in the world right now, our feelings, etc. etc. Come cope with us.

We’re all going to die. It took a cartoon about a writer struggling toward happiness and an alcoholic horse man / former sitcom actor (and a cat-mother-agent-former-girlfriend-of-3-boys-in-a-trench coat) ruining other people’s lives then almost terminating his own to get us to confront this seriously for the first time in a few years. THIS IS A VERY FUN EPISODE. Please join us for the BoJack Horseman finale.

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