Adam Mckay is Morris The Cat (1992) [[Archive Episode]]

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As we wrap up summer, we’re bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the archives. We’ll see you after Labor Day!

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It’s July 28th. This day in 1992, “Morris The Cat,” the feline spokesperson for Nine Lives cat food, is in the heart of a stunt presidential campaign.

Jody and Niki are joined by director and writer Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up, Vice, Anchorman) to talk about the campaign and how Adam’s career changed as a result.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone Jody here. This is a best of episode one of our favorites from the archives. We're giving ourselves the final week or so of summer off and we will be back with new episodes after Labor Day
0:12.0	But for now, enjoy.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:20.0	My name is Jody Avergan. I don't know where to begin with this one.
0:26.0	Basically, what we are marking is a moment in 1992,
0:30.0	the moment when Morris the Cat declared his candidacy for president.
0:34.3	We should note that this was Morris the Cat's second time running for president had run in 1988
0:39.2	as well, and this was a publicity stunt.
0:41.8	Morris the Cat was the spokes fee line for nine lives. And this
0:45.0	publicity stunt, Morris the Cat was the spokesfi line for nine lives cat food.
0:46.0	So here is this cat food company putting up their mascot as
0:49.0	presidential candidate to get a little attention.
0:52.0	So here to discuss Morris the Cats presidency and I
0:54.6	promise this will be worth it is my co-host as always Nicole Hammer of
0:58.6	Columbia. Hello there Nicky. I'm so annoyed Jody I just finished a book on the politics of the 1990s and I have a nary
1:05.6	Amorous the cat mentioned in it my editor's gonna be so mad
1:09.2	Yeah after the end of this episode you'll loop back around and second edition exactly we should say Kelly Carter Jackson is out today so she
1:17.4	won't be joining us but our guest this episode we are very thrilled to welcome
1:21.8	back to the show Adam McKay,
1:23.0	director of Don't Look Up, and Vice, and the Big Short, and Ankerman and someone who I
1:26.4	worked with on this podcast series, Death at the Wing. Adam, welcome back to the
1:30.6	show and we should start to answer the question why the fuck is
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