Xanadu

MusicalSplaining

Lindsay Ellis and Kaveh Taherian

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we learn how podcasting is really just one big roller disco with the 1980 flop Xanadu and ask, was this really one of the worst films ever made, or is it unfairly maligned? Lindsay tries to calculate how much rioting is required to kill a musical genre, and Kaveh tries to make the case that he is not a serial killer despite his traumatic head injury.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Mooby, a curated streaming service showing exceptional films
0:06.6	from all around the globe.
0:08.7	Every day, Mooby premieres a new film.
0:11.2	From brand new work by emerging filmmakers to modern masterpieces from today's greatest
0:15.3	icons, there's always something new to discover, such as Alejandro Yoderowski's The Holy Mountain,
0:22.5	an incendiary, surrealist, sacrilegious satire that outraged Cannes in 1973, infused with
0:29.9	tarot imagery, alchemical mysticism, and counterculture of freakery, it's a lucid dream
0:35.4	that lodges itself directly into the subconscious, and there it stays.
0:40.1	I personally remember after seeing this movie for the first time having no idea what I just
0:44.2	watched, but I also felt a very strong need to go back and watch it again and again to
0:48.6	try and decipher its weirdly hypnotic visual language.
0:51.6	It's definitely a weird one, but I can safely say that there's nothing else like it.
0:56.2	Highly recommended.
0:57.5	So, try Mooby for free for 30 days at Mooby.com slash musicalsplaining.
1:03.4	That's M-U-B-I dot com slash musicalsplaining for a whole month of great cinema for free.
1:11.7	The best of cinema at your fingertips, streaming anytime, anywhere.
1:16.5	Alright ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the musicalsplaining podcast.
1:27.2	I am your host, and now professional, completed audiobook reader, Cavita Herion.
1:35.4	And I have reinvented the printing press, Lindsay Ellis.
1:40.5	I was hoping you'd say audiobook writer.
1:42.9	Oh, as you noted last week, I did not write an audiobook.
1:47.4	I wrote a book that was not meant to be read out loud, or else I might have, I don't
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