0:00.0	This is going to be the last episode of May and hopefully the last episode of a month-long
0:04.4	fundraiser. We are within striking distance of my goal, so if you can ship in please go to
0:08.6	BestOfAleft.com and click the climate hike banner for details. Thanks so much. And now,
0:14.5	welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with clips today including a TED Talk by Colin Stokes,
0:20.2	Citizen Radio, PBS Game Show, Counter-Spin on the Media, the majority report, and Marina Shutup on
0:26.6	YouTube after you. You know my favorite part of being a dad is the movies I get to watch.
0:34.9	I love sharing my favorite movies with my kids and when my daughter was four, we got to watch
0:40.5	the Wizard of Oz together. Totally dominated her imagination for months. Her favorite character
0:46.9	was Glinda, of course. He had a great excuse to wear a sparkly dress and carry a wand.
0:52.8	But you know, you watch a movie enough times and you start to realize how unusual it is. Now,
0:56.8	we live today and are raising our children in a kind of children's fantasy spectacular industrial
1:03.9	complex. But the Wizard of Oz stood alone. It did not start that trend. The 40 years later
1:12.0	was when the trend really caught on with interestingly another movie that featured a metal guy and a
1:18.7	furry guy rescuing a girl by dressing up as the enemy's guards. Do you know what I'm talking about?
1:27.3	Yeah. Now, there's a big difference between these two movies. A couple of really big differences
1:33.6	between the Wizard of Oz and all the movies we watch today. One is there's very little violence
1:37.2	in the Wizard of Oz. The monkeys are rather aggressive as are the apple trees. But I think if the
1:45.7	Wizard of Oz were made today, the Wizard would say, Dorothy, you are the savior of Oz that the
1:52.4	prophecy foretold. Use your magic slippers to defeat the computer-generated armies of the wicked
1:58.2	witch. But that's not how it happens. Another thing that's really unique about the Wizard of Oz to
2:03.9	me is that all of the most heroic and wise and even villainous characters are female.
2:12.8	Now, I started to notice this when I actually showed Star Wars to my daughter, which was years
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