Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast 113. Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream, or Was It an American Fiction?
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 …