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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