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113. Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream, or Was It an American Fiction?
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113. Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream, or Was It an American Fiction?

We celebrate the legacy of a complicated man and discuss the first great "woke satire." Also: The hotness of Issa Rae, Buckminster Fuller, and which one of us falls asleep during car chases?
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Our MLK Day episode kicks off with stories about the chain-smoking, philandering civil rights leader who is also one of the founding fathers of the American Dream. We discuss the terrific new movie American Fiction, and somehow segue to a discussion about Buckminster Fuller and geodesic domes. Which one of us will be guilty of “contempt prior to investigation”? Take a guess. Also discussed:

  • How is Sarah like Ron DeSantis?

  • Nancy’s creepy close encounter with an Amazon delivery guy

  • Sarah tippy-toes to the razor’s edge of being a Crazy Cat Lady

  • MLK Jr. had a letter opener lodged where?

  • When Gawker writers become movie-makers …

  • American Fiction is the first great woke satire

  • The hotness of Issa Rae

  • Love for Push by Sapphire and Precious, the movie it became

  • Sterling K. Brown is the best part of The People vs. OJ Simpson

  • Why Nancy called the TV station during the slow-speed OJ chase

  • OMG the new Truman Capote vs. the Swans television show OMG

  • What is “Taliban glamping”?

Plus a plane crash in the Andes, a gripping new French film, and Sarah and Nancy discover who is the wife in this relationship and who the husband, the litmus test being …

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