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The first and only podcast bringing you weekly case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. Every Wednesday, co-hosts Josh, Brian, and A.J. dissect an artifact of popular culture, breaking down how its narrative choices reflect or subvert the reactionary political project. From video games to movies to theater to an apparently infinite supply of evangelical Christian radio drama, we expose the machinations of the worst of all possible worlds in order to figure out how to build a better one. Also, we have bits.
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Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Stephen Stout (Puffs) and the lads hop into their red, white, and blue helicopters and completely obliterate France as they cover Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 fraught satire of the War on Terror: Team America: World Police. Topics include Parker and Stone’s origins, the film’s overwhelming racism, and what a movie so steeped in the post-9/11 hysteria of the early 2000s means twenty years after its release.
Stephen Stout: Twitter // Instagram // Spock Hats Twitter
Puffs: Website // Amazon // Broadway HD
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Team America: World Police. Dir. Trey Parker and Matt Stone. 2004.
- “Launching a small-scale offensive” by John Horn. The Los Angeles Times. Sept. 12th, 2004.
- “Team America-World Police: Down-Home Theories of Power and Peace” by James Gow. Millenium: Journal of International Studies. Volume 34, Issue 2. February 2006.
- “Playboy Interview: Parker & Stone” by Playboy Staff. June 2000.
- “Puppet Masters - Interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker” by Heather Havrilesky. Salon. October 12th, 2004.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “TWOAPW, Fuck Yeah (Abridged)”
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