Morris The Cat And Adam McKay's Big Break (1992) w/ Adam McKay
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
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 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know where to begin with this one. Basically what we are marking is a moment in |
| 0:15.6 | 1992 the moment when Morris the Cat declared his candidacy for president. We should note |
| 0:21.6 | that this was Morris the cat's second time running for president. We should note that this was Morris the Cat's second time |
| 0:23.9 | running for president had run in 1988 as well and this was a publicity stunt. |
| 0:28.4 | Morris the cat was the spokes fee line for nine lives cat food. So here is this cat food company putting up |
| 0:34.5 | their mascot as presidential candidate to get a little attention. So here to |
| 0:39.5 | discuss Morris the cat's presidency and I promise this will be worth it. |
| 0:43.2 | Is my co-host, as always Nicole Hemmer of Columbia. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello there, Nicky. |
| 0:47.1 | I am so annoyed Jody. |
| 0:48.4 | I just finished a book on the politics of the Exactly. We should say Kelly Carter Jackson is out today so she won't be joining us, but our guest this episode. We are very thrilled to welcome back to the show Adam McKay, director of Don't Look Up and Vice and the picture at an Anor Man and someone who I worked with on this podcast series, Death at the Wing. |
| 1:16.0 | Adam, welcome back to the show and we should start to answer the question, why the fuck is Adam McKay on this episode? |
| 1:22.0 | But here you are. |
| 1:24.0 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:25.0 | Thanks, guys for having me. |
| 1:28.0 | And I couldn't believe it |
| 1:31.0 | when you emailed me about this you are the first person since I mean how |
| 1:36.9 | long ago was it ninety to thirty years so here is here is the context well we |
| 1:41.6 | should give credit to a listener, Mark, |
| 1:43.4 | who actually was the first person who started this chain |
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