Author, filmmaker and ardent basketball fan Sherman Alexie joins me to discuss one of my favorite topics: The 1990s. Though, to be honest, we stray from that subject and get into others subjects of interest. Such as!
Rob Mahoney thinks “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is bad. Fair?
Smells Like Teen Spirit changed everything
What was the last great movie?
Why, exactly, Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue” became a hit again two decades later
The cognitive dissonance for White Liberals seeing people who look and talk like them having different politics
McDonald’s as blue collar space
Sherman could plausibly be from half the world
I’m mesmerized by how different the Canadians are
Sports media’s been socially pressured into softness
The laudable grandiosity of Timothée Chalamet
The theory behind YouTube athletic stars
Is more fictional content political or are we just more sensitive to political messages?
Who are the ALL TIME “Pretendian” actors
