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🗓️ 21 July 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Sarah tells Mike about how America's favorite gangster movie is really its favorite killing-the-American-Dream movie. Digressions include the Mona Lisa, Bruce Springsteen and the tyranny of height-ism. The sound quality continues to worsen.
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0:00.0 | If I were to do like sort of a standard high stakes American podcast presentation and I like interviewed you |
0:06.5 | What I would do is I'll be like Michael Hobbs tried to buy shoes and I'll be like a quote |
0:10.7 | And you'd be like I wanted brown broves. I'd be like he only wanted brown broves |
0:14.8 | Like when someone is just like trying way too hard sexually and you're like did you like learn a routine and then memorize the order? |
0:30.0 | You're welcome to you're wrong about the podcast where we did bunk political and historical myths |
0:40.8 | I came up with a new tagline this week. Oh, that's a good one. I don't know if it's completely accurate |
0:44.8 | But taglines don't have to be accurate. Well, it describes at least some of what we do |
0:48.8 | It's like saying you're an importer exporter when you also partake in other activities. I am Michael Hobbs |
0:54.2 | I'm a reporter for the Huffington Post. I'm Sarah Marshall |
0:57.0 | I'm a writer for the New Republic and the believer in best feed and this week we are talking about the Godfather |
1:03.6 | Yes, which is neither a political nor historical myth, but we'll get there |
1:07.6 | I would argue that it is both |
1:12.1 | So I watched the Godfather last night to brush up |
1:14.6 | Okay, my friend Cooper bombardier and whose seller I am currently recording this episode with you in Nova Scotia |
1:21.7 | And it was funny because he like came down to watch it with me and he was like |
1:26.2 | Oh, huh, I don't think I've ever actually seen all of the Godfather all at once |
1:30.1 | And I was like yeah a lot of people like haven't really seen all of the Godfather |
1:35.4 | It's just this thing that is like that we absorb through cultural me asthma |
1:39.6 | I think there should be a word for that thing where you know the satire of the object |
1:44.3 | Ah far before you know the actual object like I heard I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore |
1:49.8 | For like 10 years before I realized that was a reference to something right and I think the Godfather has a |
1:56.1 | similar |
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