Remember Shuffle

The Shuffle Bois are joined by Luke Savage (https://x.com/LukewSavage) and Will Sloan (https://x.com/WillSloanEsq) of Michael and Us to describe the least important election of the 2000s. Given that it’s the only presidential election since 1988 in which a Republican candidate won the popular vote, much of the episode is dedicated to the analysis of the greatest Democratic Party loser of all time, John Kerry. They also discuss some of the big themes of the election, including the pathetic loserdom of John Kerry, the rehashing of 1960s counter culture, and the increasing role of the internet in presidential campaigning. Huge shoutout to our guests for coming on the pod! Be sure to check out Michael and Us (https://x.com/MichaelandUs) and Important Cinema Club (https://x.com/ImprtCinemaClub)!

Huge shoutout to @treedar_ on IG for this listener topic suggestion! . Thank you to all those who send us recs. Remember Shuffle turns to the internet folklore and its most famous cultural output: the Slendered man. We talk about his origins, characteristics and some academic reviews of folkloric study. Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.  Liminal Space example: https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/11/1/the-cult-following-of-liminal-space

NOTE: SORRY--we had to reupload this one due to an audio issue--THIS EPISODE IS OLD AND FROM Jan 2024. Remember Shuffle turns to the world of stand-up comedy and does a career retrospective of Dane Cook and and album review of his 2005 album “Retaliation.” En route, they break down the internal logic of his jokes, catalogue Dane Cook’s style, and do a bit of armchair psychiatry on everyone’s favourite man-child comedian.

Remember Shuffle turns to the greatest dystopian film of the 2000s, and quite possibly the best film of the decade as a whole: Alfonso Cuarón's “Children of Men.” This text is so abundant that the Shuffle Bois do their first ever seven-theme episode. En route, they discuss hope and despair, capitalist realism, the treatment of migrants, the place of art in our world, what makes this film so prescient, as well as great in its own historical moment. Our apologies to Alfonso "The Fonz" Cuarón if we mispronounced his name. Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.

Are you not entertained? Old faithful, we return once more to The Sopranos to discuss the best cultural product of the decade. The season has 4 serialized plots, as well as a unifying theme that ties each episode together. We do a specific deep dive on Fortunate Son, Amour Fou (A Mofo), and one of the top 2 episodes of The Sopranos: UNIVERSITY.  Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.

Howdy pardners. Remember Shuffle returns to the beautiful mind of Elizabeth Gilbert to discuss Coyote Ugly - the original article that inspired the film, the rather forgettable 2000 Rom Com adaptation, and the actual business that still exists in New York City. The shuffle boys also interview a subject matter expert (@LukeRallo on IG) in tabletop dancing. En route through the history of these kinds of bars, they also discuss 2000s era lipstick feminism, gentrification, and the carnivalesque. Our SF SketchFest Application video: https://youtu.be/xK_Quj5gCbY Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to inte

Remember Shuffle goes yap for yap with a real yapper with returning guest @Gluten_Daddy (Isaac Eger) of the Coexist Inc podcast to discuss the 9/11 Truth Movement in various forms. They start with three pieces of media from the 2000s that attempted to process the trauma of 9/11 through truther conspiracy theories. Using Michael Moore’s Farhenheit 9/11, Dylan Avery’s Loose Change, and Peter Joseph’s Zeitgeist a jumping-off point, they then turn to some unique aspects of these conspiracies and the people who ascribe to them, the internet’s role in conspiratorial thinking, and the state of conspiratorial thinking today. Isaac's podcast, COEXIST INC. can be found here : https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coexistinc/episodes/Ep--77---Whats-the-Deal-with-Jerry-Seinfeld-e2jtqob ⁠Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.

In Remember Shuffle’s most experimental, least researched, and most freewheeling episode yet, we turn to the world of Chess in the 2000s. We discuss the game’s international growth in the decade, some of its more colo(u)rful characters, and talk about the *meta* of the game. Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.  Disclaimer: we know this one’s a little different and a little shorter. Your hosts have been busy travelling and/or hosting guests this summer. While we hope to have some really exciting stuff dropping soon, we hope this one will tide you over with a bit of that Remember Shuffle energy!

The Shuffle Boys return to the world of American military propaganda to review Ridley Scott’s 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.To fully appreciate the ghoulishness of this movie’s version of events, we start with a quick history lesson on late 20th century Somalia and the actual events that the film attemprs to depict. En route, they return to the well of some of the key themes of both the End of History and Post 9-11 bloodlust eras ⁠Alternate name for the episode was “Stolz der United Nations” but the reference is too obscure, but shout out to the Inglorious Basterds heads who would have liked that Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests. 

My name is 2007. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair:  There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men 3:10 to Yuma The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007 was a banner year for the Western genre. The Shuffle Boys get into what each of these films was offering the culture in 2007, and spend the first half hour covering the Frontier’s effect on American national mythology and political culture for our overseas listeners. They then do their usual thing and do a deep analysis of the two best Western films of the decade, “There Will Be Blood” and “No Country for Old Men.”Shout out to Greg Grandin’s book ‘The End of the Myth’ as a source for the history of the frontier.⁠Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.To skip ahead to each movie:00:00:00 Intro00:39:39 There Will Be Blood01:02:43 No Country for Old Men01:23:37 3;10 to Yuma