This is, of course, a culture and politics podcast, and here we'll be looking at culture through the eyes of a political figure.

Not just any figure, but William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America.

One of the great things about the presidents of the United States is after a certain amount of time, the list of the movies

that screamed at the White House under their tenure gets released. Interesting that at the

beginning of 1998, he watches Kundun, which is... I liked it. Yeah. Martin Scorsese's very

controversial film about the Dalai Lama, a film that almost permanently

sabotaged relations between China and the Disney Company. So while President Clinton was working

hand in hand with Michael Eisner to smooth things over with China, he did screen Kundon in the

White House, maybe just as a fact-finding mission, maybe just to see what he was up against, what he was working with.

I don't know. Or, I don't know, maybe he wanted a free Tibet. Who knows?

I like the idea of Bill Clinton watching the Big Lebowski, which also appears on this list.

He's a Cohen Brothers fan. We've seen that. He also watched the Hudsucker proxy. Yeah, he watched Hudsucker proxy. So this year's interesting because in 1998, he had some

issues this year. I saw Bill Clinton a couple of years back, maybe a decade back actually, on the

American Film Institute tribute to Warren Beatty. Clinton was one of the presenters there, and I don't have the

exact words in front of me. I'll drop what Clinton said about Bullworth. I had to look up this

precise timeline of this year, because it was at the beginning of 1998 when, you know, he uttered

the infamous words. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky, and around the

same time in the White House, he watched Titanic, which I don't know why I think

that's funny, but it is.

Well, you'll find this funny, too, in October of 1998, when the truth was coming out,

when things were getting very difficult for him, the three movies he watched were wrongfully

accused with Leslie Nielsen, rush hour.

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