PREVIEW - #333 - Weekend Warriors

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/66509310 In DELTA FARCE (2007), "blue collar" comedian Larry the Cable Guy goes to fight in Iraq, but winds up in Mexico. That's right, folks - it's another document from the Bush era. We discuss conservative comedy and touch on the legendary Larry/David Cross feud that tore a nation asunder. PLUS: Luke reveals a traumatic memory involving the Ninja Turtles.

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0:00.0	It's time for our first foray into the world of the blue-collar comedy universe. That's right.
0:05.5	We are talking about the 2007 Iraq War satire, Delta Farse, starring Larry the Cable Guy.
0:13.4	Yeah, Dereda!
0:15.2	Fifteen years ago when this came out, I distinctly remember, well not all that distinctly,
0:19.8	I vaguely remember reading a newspaper review. That's how old this was. I distinctly remember, well, not all that distinctly. I vaguely remember reading a newspaper
0:22.3	review. That's how old this was. I was still reading the... There were newspapers. I was reading
0:28.0	the Toronto Star Art section or something, or maybe it was the globe. And there was, I presume,
0:34.0	a one-star review of this movie. Larry the Cable Guy was a pretty low-hanging fruit target for medium-smart people like us back
0:41.0	of the day.
0:42.0	So was he like a bogeyman of the Bush era?
0:44.8	I don't really remember that.
0:45.9	Yeah, yeah, he definitely was.
0:47.2	The whole blue-collar comedy bullshit, you know, that was, that was reactionary stuff. I mean, some of us remember the
0:56.6	heated Larry the Cable Guy, David Cross, wars of 2006, 2007. I actually don't remember that.
1:03.6	Can you, can you enlighten us? Well, I think there was some crossfire in their words in various
1:09.2	interviews, because Larry the cable guy, real name Dan
1:12.1	Whitney, by the way, he's not actually a cable guy named Larry. He was just some, you know,
1:17.5	hack comedian who came upon this blue collar character. Yeah, he's on the one end. And then on the
1:23.2	left, as far left as you could possibly be in American media at that time was David Cross,
1:30.0	the ultimate latte-sipping liberal comedian. Anyway, I think David Cross had said in an interview
1:37.3	something about Larry the Cable Guy being like, oh yeah, he does racist shit that idiot audiences like,
1:43.4	that kind of thing. And Larry the Cable Guy fired back with like, you know, you can say what you want about me, but, but you better not go after my fans in that affected fake Southern voice that he has. And David Cross fought back with, you know, I'm just scrolling through it now like a, like 3,000 word open letter
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