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*PREVIEW* Britainology 4: That '70s Episode

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Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We're back again to explain the eccentricities and fault lines of this truly normal island. This week, Milo and Nate discuss the 1970s in Britain, why everything went downhill, why the decade radicalised the Boomers, and why the TV from that era is.... not good. Hope you enjoy! If you want to hear the full thing, get it on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41670736 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

This was such a generational moment, it seems, with regard to how people see themselves

0:20.3

and see what happened in Britain of World War II as well.

0:23.7

Yeah, because it's become like, it's sort of not remembered as a parody in the same way.

0:29.1

It's kind of become remembered as this sort of like jolly hockey stick spirit of the British home guard who would have resisted the Hitler to the end.

0:36.9

And it's like, that's not

0:37.9

what the show is about. The show is about how fucking stupid they are. Yeah, it's weird. I mean,

0:42.4

people don't, it was, didn't run anywhere near as long, obviously, but people don't, you know,

0:47.1

reinterpret World War I because of the fourth season of Blackadder being about World War I.

0:52.6

No. It just, to maybe it informs people's mental, you know, visual perception of what they

0:57.7

think the war was like.

0:58.7

But the whole thing is obviously a huge farce.

1:00.9

Like, that's the point.

1:02.6

It certainly doesn't make people turn around and say, oh, I'm, I'm re-envisioning this

1:09.0

patriotic success because of, you know, Captain Blackadder and Private Baldrick and stuff like that.

1:14.7

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:15.2

But Dad's Army weirdly has kind of become the thing that people, I don't know, they think of that and Dunkirk and the Blitz.

1:23.1

But, like, Dunkirk was nearly a disaster that was saved by, Milo's famously put it out, blokes who fish,

1:28.2

and the Blitz was a fucking massacre.

1:30.2

So it's weird.

1:31.8

Yeah.

1:32.0

And it's funny how people,

1:33.3

that people remember these events in this kind of like weird, like sort of mysterious

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