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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Professor Joan C. Williams joins the show to discuss her book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. She explains how the decline of unions, elite cultural codes, and a failure to value stability over novelty have fueled resentment. Mike also examines Pixar’s box office collapse, the rise of “bean mouth” animation, and whether John Lasseter’s departure was Me Too’s costliest ouster.
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0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. |
0:09.8 | In July 2nd, it's close to July 4th, and July 4th means big box office weekend, despicable me for, |
0:17.2 | but what I want to do is look back on a box office weekend. That wasn't big. |
0:22.5 | In fact, I will read the headline from Variety. It wasn't even the head. It was the second |
0:25.9 | part of the headline, though it should have been the headline. Ilio land's worst debut in Pixar |
0:31.0 | history with $21 million. This was their new feature, Ilya. Your life isn't up there, Elio. You need to make |
0:39.0 | friends. I just want to belong somewhere. So if any aliens are listening, please come and get me. |
0:44.5 | Okay, bye. I love you. It's really happening. We search the universe for the dreamers and stargazers like you. |
0:58.6 | This is awesome! |
1:00.2 | There is even some sentiment that the movie is not called Elio, but Elio. |
1:05.0 | That sentiment comes from the trailer I just played, no matter. |
1:07.9 | Didn't make enough money for me not to call it, Ilio, like the pizza. |
1:11.9 | Ilya was part of a Pixar losing streak, and I've been trying to figure out why. |
1:17.0 | There is one suggestion that it's Beanmouth. |
1:20.3 | I read you a headline from the CBC. |
1:21.7 | Did Bean Mouth really kill Pixar's Elio at the box office? |
1:26.3 | I'm like, no one saw Elio. |
1:27.6 | We're supposed to know the characters. |
1:28.9 | There's a guy named Bean Mouth. |
1:30.1 | No, I found out that Bean Mouth is shorthand for an animation technique. |
1:35.5 | And if you think about the mouths of, and this is a non-Pixar, excellent animated short |
1:40.1 | Wallace and Gromit, you know how their mouths are formed? |
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