What’s Wrong With Motherf---er?

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, works produced 75 years ago are now entering the public domain. And some are what 2019 would call “problematic.” David Bowie once sang that we can all be heroes … but villainy is where it’s really at. In the Ringer podcast Villains, host Shea Serrano and his guests analyze film’s best baddies to figure out their true motives and chances at redemption. What makes The Silence of the Lambs’Hannibal Lecter the most memorable villain of all? How justified is Amy Dunne in Gone Girl? And are there any villains they won’t even touch? In the Spiel, Rep. Rashida Tlaib used a bad word. But boy, it’s also such a great word. This episode is brought to you by Slack, the collaboration hub for work. Learn more at Slack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode might, now I'm gonna strike the might, it does, it definitely does contain explicit language.
0:06.1	But you know what doesn't?
0:07.2	Very provocative and insightful language.
0:09.6	It's our Saturday news letter, slate.com slash just news.
0:13.8	Sign up for it now.
0:18.4	Friday, January 4th, 2019, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:23.4	Under copyright law, 2019 is a banner year.
0:28.0	Because for the first time, a new copyright clock has been established and works that were produced 75 years ago are now entering the public domain.
0:39.5	What does this mean?
0:40.8	Am I saying, indeed I am saying, that yes, we have no bananas.
0:47.9	We have no bananas.
0:49.9	We have no bananas today.
0:55.5	Not only do we have no bananas, we have no restrictions on the public declaration of a dearth of bananas, even with a specific recording by the Billy Jones orchestra on the Emerson label.
1:06.2	There, I said it and I played it and I played it with a band.
1:10.2	Now a dearth of bananas is clearly a thing to sing from the rooftops, but there are a bunch of things that are going into the public domain, a bunch beyond bananas.
1:19.4	There are early Edith Warton works.
1:22.2	Warton works.
1:23.6	There are some Robert Frost poems.
1:25.9	There's a Tarzan movie.
1:27.7	Cecil B. Demille's first crack at the Ten Commandments.
1:31.2	Silent Films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
1:33.8	Under the copyright expiration, I can play huge clips of entire swaths of those silent films.
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