Episode 221 - M. Night Shyamalan's The Villages feat. Osita Nwanevu (06_21_18)
Added 2018-06-21 18:33:09 +0000 UTCWe'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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The People need this episode
Maureen Murtha
2018-07-10 15:01:50 +0000 UTCA Ben Shapiro skin in Fortnight would be like some asshole picking Oddjob in Goldeneye multiplayer.
Paul Sielski
2018-06-26 17:32:13 +0000 UTCyeah you guys should really release this one
Jamie
2018-06-26 15:59:05 +0000 UTCBoss burger closed!! Chapo killed it!
Max Scherzer
2018-06-26 02:01:54 +0000 UTCFree this ep
Charles Paynezworth
2018-06-25 22:29:31 +0000 UTCGreat episode. Hope you'll unlock so I can share.
Jacob Levitan
2018-06-24 16:57:27 +0000 UTCYou'd think w/$100 k a month, they'd get decent audio and learn how to speak into a mike.
MShark
2018-06-23 19:23:54 +0000 UTCRe The Village reading: when laughter turns into helpless, existential horror. Ugh. We're fucked.
MShark
2018-06-23 19:22:51 +0000 UTCLi
Marian Jones
2018-06-23 17:05:33 +0000 UTCOsita's audio was really soft early in the episode.
JetSector603
2018-06-23 16:41:31 +0000 UTCFresh 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.
Raphael Wakefield
2018-06-23 15:50:05 +0000 UTCThanks 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
2018-06-22 23:01:40 +0000 UTCIsrael is Ruby weapon
Habib Rahman
2018-06-22 22:46:23 +0000 UTCThis was a fantastic episode
cnmne
2018-06-22 19:20:33 +0000 UTCFelix's Shinra reference made me realize how ambivalent I am that a game I loved so much growing up basically came true.
Jon Lyons
2018-06-22 18:13:12 +0000 UTCWhoever's producing learn to use a compressor on these wobblemics
Ben Poop
2018-06-22 16:35:37 +0000 UTCI grew up in Gaithersburg next door to a Salvadorean family. Pork/cheese pupusas are great.
Justin Buell
2018-06-22 13:47:13 +0000 UTCI 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.
Sami James
2018-06-22 11:37:20 +0000 UTCPro 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.
Professor Jokes
2018-06-22 09:58:45 +0000 UTCaaaaaaaaaa Osita is awesome hell yeah
Marcos Rubios
2018-06-22 07:09:23 +0000 UTCYour 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
Michael McLaughlin
2018-06-22 06:24:49 +0000 UTCUnlock this one for the people, boys
vasily26
2018-06-22 04:58:13 +0000 UTCThis episode is more proof that we need mandatory reeducation for anyone who plays golf
a-10-&
2018-06-22 03:53:28 +0000 UTCif you guys could try to get norman finkelstein on the show that would be sweet. cheers!
realm lich
2018-06-22 00:45:20 +0000 UTC...I think I've only made this comment one other time: put this on the Soundcloud page. It's one of the best...
Frederick Von Drasek
2018-06-22 00:28:35 +0000 UTCGreat episode, though I must draw attention to Will's misuse of the phrase "begs the question." Do better, Will.
mruskin
2018-06-21 23:53:21 +0000 UTCGarish media slogan that actually fits: Me Too generation vs Me Only generation
Zack
2018-06-21 23:20:37 +0000 UTCWhen 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.
Mike Smith
2018-06-21 23:17:29 +0000 UTCLol I listened to this in the villages, everything is true
Wes Collier
2018-06-21 22:38:17 +0000 UTCI agree with the esteemed Saint Thomas LeDoux's comment. Let this ep go free cause it's good and relevant. Something something Naomi Klein.
Khai El Baba Jones
2018-06-21 22:30:08 +0000 UTClol my grandpa died in the villages, visited him once there, that place is a trip
Bjorn Harlson
2018-06-21 20:53:11 +0000 UTCBeen waiting a long time to hear Osita go full irony bro. Nice.
Doodles
2018-06-21 20:43:57 +0000 UTCThat guy who loves the phrase "fake news" probably used to own a nfl hat. not of a team
Juan Solis
2018-06-21 20:42:11 +0000 UTCThis 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.
loobahood8b
2018-06-21 20:33:41 +0000 UTCFelix calling out my soundcloud release plan 3 lmao
Lars Boschek
2018-06-21 20:30:58 +0000 UTCI 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>
Gary Alexander
2018-06-21 20:30:39 +0000 UTCAlso 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
2018-06-21 19:53:12 +0000 UTCHell 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.
Chris McCarthy
2018-06-21 19:51:59 +0000 UTCPreparing 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.
Matthew Flaherty
2018-06-21 19:42:39 +0000 UTCHannah 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!"
Robert Hoberman
2018-06-21 19:11:57 +0000 UTC
