We welcome Daniel Harper and Jack Graham, co-hosts of the excellent anti-fascist podcast I Don't Speak German. We watched Spike Lee's incendiary 2018 thriller BlackKklansman. We discuss the history of the Ku Klux Klan, Hollywood's complicity in its rise, and Spike's reckoning with making a quasi pro-police film. Discussion also includes: David Duke's bizarre die and exercise regiment; the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Virginia and Daniel and Jack give us an update on the rally's most notorious nazi dorks; the harrowing sound editing of Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST; and can there be a movie about cops that isn't copaganda?

Hal and Craig return to watching some latter-career Clint Eastwood films, this time it's Clint's 2008 film GRAN TORINO, a movie made for old white people to feel okay about being racist! Fun? Discussion also includes:

• The new season of Black Mirror;

• Clive Barker's Faustian novel THE DAMNATION GAME;

• The best airplane movies;

• An update on the Tampa 5, the five people arrested in Tampa for protesting Ron DeSantis' anti-DEI efforts;

• Which of Clint Eastwood's children he dislikes the most; and

• A quick history of the Hmong people.

RESOURCES & LINKS:

More info on the Tampa 5:

• https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/06/22/tampa-five-usf-protest-diversity-lauren-pineiro-arrest

• http://www.fightbacknews.org/2023/4/19/florida-statewide-protest-demands-justice-tampa-5-drop-charges

• https://naarpr.org/updates/drop-the-charges-now-defend-student-activists-justice-for-the-tampa-5/

More info on the Hmong People:

• https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/chart/top-10-u-s-metropolitan-areas-by-hmong-population-2019/)

• https://www.hmongamericancenter.org/

• https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/minnesotas-refugees/asia/hmong/ 

Hal and Craig discuss Spike Lee’s 2000 joint BAMBOOZLED, a satire that takes aim at the way the media uses black art, culture, and pain for profit. Other topics include our Top 3 Spike Lee films, the long running Spike vs. Tarantino beef, the right-wingers who encouraged the violence at Club Q, and MC Serch’s illustrious, bizarre career.