Well, our movie on this episode is a deeply political film because it tells you the truth about what happens to your taxes.

It is Robert Altman's 1980 film, Popeye, which we will be applying a rigorous ideological reading to.

Is Popeye part of the monomith?

Is he one of the Jungian archetypes?

Does society need to return to Popeye?

Or, for that matter, Bluto.

Is society like Sweet Haven divided between the strong and the weak? Is this the natural order?

Is society divided into wimpies and Popeyes and olive oils? What say you, Luke?

Well, I had never seen, despite being a fan of Robert Altman, I'd never seen this one.

And I was a little bit, you know, Will's been telling me to watch Popeye for years.

For 10 years, before we had this podcast when we would have movie nights, just regular

movie nights. We watched Nashville. Slacker uprising. Yeah, I think... Slacker uprising. Yeah, a lot of

slacker uprising. But we would periodically watch Altman movies and you've seen a decent number

of Altman movies.

And I would often say, man, you got to check out Popeye because I've always loved Popeye.

And Popeye is kind of like if McCabe and Mrs. Miller was about Popeye.

It has all the Altman stuff.

It's got the world's building.

Like the sound design is the same. Like lots of

little digressive conversations that you can't always hear all of. And as Roger Ebert points out in

his review, one of the few positive notices that the film earned in its original theatrical run,

one of the great things about Altman at his best is that he creates these worlds that seem

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