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Episode 221 - M. Night Shyamalan's The Villages feat. Osita Nwanevu (06_21_18)
🕑 Added 2018-06-21 18:33:09 +0000 UTC We're joined by Slate staff writer Osita Nwanevu to call various people Nazis, talk about the one sided rules that govern "civility" in our discourse, and to gaze into the abyss of Trump's true base: rich old assholes in retirement compounds.
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Maureen Murtha
The People need this episode
Paul Sielski
A Ben Shapiro skin in Fortnight would be like some asshole picking Oddjob in Goldeneye multiplayer.
Jamie
yeah you guys should really release this one
Max Scherzer
Boss burger closed!! Chapo killed it!
Charles Paynezworth
Free this ep
Jacob Levitan
Great episode. Hope you'll unlock so I can share.
MShark
You'd think w/$100 k a month, they'd get decent audio and learn how to speak into a mike.
MShark
Re The Village reading: when laughter turns into helpless, existential horror. Ugh. We're fucked.
Marian Jones
Li
JetSector603
Osita's audio was really soft early in the episode.
Raphael Wakefield
Fresh off of shitting on Youngstown for no reason and not distinguishing between towns, small cities, and exurban hellscapes, Will apparently does not know that Fort Hamilton is in Brooklyn, not Staten Island. UES NIMBY alll the way.
Habib Rahman
Thanks for the excellent and relevant comment! It's not quite the same but there has been a really distasteful focus on the trauma experienced by drone warfare operators also, because it's very stressful to bomb families from an air-conditioned computer room.
Habib Rahman
Israel is Ruby weapon
cnmne
This was a fantastic episode
Jon Lyons
Felix's Shinra reference made me realize how ambivalent I am that a game I loved so much growing up basically came true.
Ben Poop
Whoever's producing learn to use a compressor on these wobblemics
Justin Buell
I grew up in Gaithersburg next door to a Salvadorean family. Pork/cheese pupusas are great.
Sami James
I was born & raised in Appalachia & I used to feel bad for them....I don't anymore; Most of them have been wholly brainwashed. JFC Don Bankenship getting any votes at all should be a testament to that.
Professor Jokes
Pro tip when in DC stick to Ethiopian, Salvadorean and Vietnamese food. Pupusas kitfo and bahn mi. Thai crossing in shaw, sweet mango cafe, and go to the docks for sea food.
Marcos Rubios
aaaaaaaaaa Osita is awesome hell yeah
Michael McLaughlin
Your migrant camp episode was good but your reading series analysis was dogshit. I travel with IBEW and the small towns that house power plants and electrical substations Aren’t exurbs. They’re small towns that have historic main streets and interesting Wikipedia pages. They prefer older local institutions and hate that the Walgreens replaced that restaurant
vasily26
Unlock this one for the people, boys
a-10-&
This episode is more proof that we need mandatory reeducation for anyone who plays golf
realm lich
if you guys could try to get norman finkelstein on the show that would be sweet. cheers!
Frederick Von Drasek
...I think I've only made this comment one other time: put this on the Soundcloud page. It's one of the best...
mruskin
Great episode, though I must draw attention to Will's misuse of the phrase "begs the question." Do better, Will.
Zack
Garish media slogan that actually fits: Me Too generation vs Me Only generation
Mike Smith
When I was in training classes for the local cable company in Central Florida, the instructor had a whole section of what to do if you’re sexually harassed by customers. A large number of those incidents occured in the villages. From horny old ladies to old dudes hovering nude behind technicians while they worked.
Wes Collier
Lol I listened to this in the villages, everything is true
Khai El Baba Jones
I agree with the esteemed Saint Thomas LeDoux's comment. Let this ep go free cause it's good and relevant. Something something Naomi Klein.
Bjorn Harlson
lol my grandpa died in the villages, visited him once there, that place is a trip
Doodles
Been waiting a long time to hear Osita go full irony bro. Nice.
Juan Solis
That guy who loves the phrase "fake news" probably used to own a nfl hat. not of a team
loobahood8b
This episode is very poignant and relevant to the broader social attitudes forming outside a lot of your paid listeners immediate social circles, with regards to this immigration crisis. I think it would be helpful to make it public for sharing with friends and such who are struggling with how to contextualize this madness.
Lars Boschek
Felix calling out my soundcloud release plan 3 lmao
Gary Alexander
I used to live near The Villages, and I have to take this opportunity to share my hatred for the fake colonial Spanish architecture generally, and this bridge specifically: <a href="https://twitter.com/grylxndr/status/1008813871065370624" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/grylxndr/status/1008813871065370624</a>
Chris McCarthy
Also important to point out that most of the young and middle class people who live around The Villages in Ocala and Dunedin are also complete chuds.
Chris McCarthy
Hell yeah, I have family in the Villages. It is literally a Baby Boomers ideal vision of America, like WWII propaganda come to life, but with strip malls.
Matthew Flaherty
Preparing to cringe my way through this one. My parents moved to the Villages a couple years ago. Haven't visited yet but I plan to. They aren't rich though, I'm not sure about the majority but I know they live there pretty affordably.
Robert Hoberman
Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem: "The troops of the Einsatzgruppen had been drafted from the Armed S.S., a military unit with hardly more crimes in its record than any ordinary unit of the German Army, and their commanders had been chosen by Heydrich from the S.S. élite with academic degrees. Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!"
