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The full title of this podcast (which we almost never use) is GLoP Culture and this week, we bring it: a little Rank Punditry® on the Comey media blitz, some thoughts on the books business and how it relates to Jonah's new book Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy (yes, you should buy the book. Go ahead, we'll wait....). Also Rob Long takes a trip, and finally, what are the four moves that define you? The GLoPsters weigh in with theirs. Leave yours in the comments. And buy the book!

Hosts:
John PodhoretzJonah GoldbergRob Long

Discussion (31)

  • John Presnall@JohnPresnall
    Until John mentioned My Favorite Year, you guys failed big time on the 4 movies thing. I'll accept Jonah's Day of the Triffids, but Rob absolutely failed. Not because of the choices, but for the reasons why the movies were important related to the movies themselves. John is absolutely correct on My Favorite Year, and he even made sense on the Poseidon Adventure. Like I said, I'll grant Jonah's Day of the Triffids. But Rob seems constitutionally imcapable of admitting that any film, TV show, song, poem, novel, or what have you--has ever spoke to his soul. I guess that's why we love him, his insider Hollywood cynicism. He's an unmoved mover, like Shakespeare's Sonnet 94, but it makes him sorta inhuman as well. I suspect he's lying.
  • SParker@SParker

    John Presnall (View Comment):

    I’ll accept Jonah’s Day of the Triffids, but Rob absolutely failed.

    H'mmm...I think I'd go the opposite way unless Jonah has a chronic fear of wandering around blind and in danger of being eaten by a house plant that he didn't fully explicate. Or the alienation my eleven-year-old self felt at the end of a movie with a clever imagining of interstellar reproduction, the also clever blindness thing, a monster superior to the Japanese rubber monsters typical of the time (low bar) that was given little screen time (in line with the earlier conversation about how to do cheap movies), and a horrible, horrible, horrible ending. Sea water? No one noticed that under no circumstances do Triffids surf? There was no shame in stealing an ending from H.G. Wells, which was pretty lame when he used it? And then to cap it with a narrator intoning how marvelous that the sea, which gave us life, comes through one more time in the clutch, good old sea. Oy!

    Rob, I thought, was well-motivated.

  • The Cloaked Gaijin@TheCloakedGaijin

    Why does President Trump hiring Rudy Giuliani make 2018 completely crazy?

    I thought the few New York City conservatives/Republicans loved Rudy Giuliani.

    I think there are a couple of Saturday Night Live comedians and other locals who have never admitted to voting for a Republican -- except for Rudy Giuliani who they largely credit with cleaning up the city. (I guess there's always the London mayor who bans knives.)

    Did Rudy Giuliani fall from grace like David Petraeus to where one is only able to like the previous version of him? Wipe away good Giuliani memories like a Confederate statue which suddenly has to be torn down?
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