119: Big Happy Mob Families
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The guys discuss gangsters today, specifically the Godfather and why there's something compelling about the big happy Italian mob families portrayed -- at least until the murders start. But first: Nate's kids correct Brian's error that Jojo Rabbit won an Oscar. It was only nominated -- Parasite won in 2019. At this point, the guys wander into a discussion of violent portions of world history, foraying into ancient Israel and King David. Brian recently finished "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, and explains why that book was so unpleasant and violent (it's about the Glanton gang of scalp-hunters on the Tex-Mex border). Nate never wants an episode to be too unobjectionable, so they stray into a discussion of why Untouchables is such a loser of a movie -- Elliot Ness/Kevin Costner is killing people over alcohol? And we thought our current tyranny was bad... Lest this episode be too Italian, the guys mix Ireland into the discussion with "Banshees of Inisherin" and "The Irishman" (also nominated for an Oscar in 2019).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:14.9 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:17.0 | And that is the sound of... |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Sass. |
| 0:20.8 | Another episode of sass. |
| 0:22.0 | Today we're drinking le croix. |
| 0:24.2 | The phrase. |
| 0:25.3 | The French beverage. |
| 0:26.8 | It's very hoity tooty. |
| 0:28.6 | Hample mousse instead of grapefruit for some reason. |
| 0:32.9 | But it's okay. |
| 0:33.9 | There's not any real flavor of any kind. |
| 0:36.2 | It's just water. |
| 0:37.2 | It's a rumor of flavor. There's a rumor. There's not any real flavor of any kind. It's just water. It's just a, |
| 0:37.9 | it's a rumor of flavor. There's a rumor. And I should, I should start by saying, I left our |
| 0:46.5 | Jojo Rabbit podcast and I was like, how did it? You can't be, and you cannot be right about it |
| 0:53.1 | winning best picture. How did I not know that? |
| 0:55.0 | And I was just not trusting myself because you'd Googled. |
| 0:57.7 | And as I was leaving, it's like, it was, no. |
| 1:01.3 | Did I look it up wrong? |
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