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That’s Humanity

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Yep, it another run through the cultural landscape with your podcast pals Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz. This week, the guys jog through a preview of The Dispatch, Jonah's new media venture, sprint through some thoughts on The Joker (a movie the guy at Rob's UPS store insists that he sees ASAP), and examine the various controversies it has spawned, and finally, a fast walk through why it's just fine for Ellen Degeneres and George W. Bush to be friends.

Hosts:
John PodhoretzJonah GoldbergRob Long

Discussion (74)

  • filmklassik@filmklassik

    Although incredibly bright, John sometimes speaks with tremendous authority on subjects about which he knows little. Yes, Al Pacino made a movie called REVOLUTION in the mid-1980s, which was so bad it kept him off-screen for four years. But he returned in 1989 not with GODFATHER PART III but with SEA OF LOVE, a great thriller written by Richard Price in which Pacino is wonderful. Restrained, magnetic, and terrific.

    GODFATHER PART III came out a year later and is famously bad, but Pacino did GLENGARY GLEN ROSS a couple of years after that, and he’s marvelous. It once again features restrained and wonderful Al — not theatrical, scenery-chewing, “pound the table”-Al, who I admit is tiresome.

  • Henry Castaigne@HenryCastaigne

    Five points

    1) I like Commentary Trivia.

    2) Also, JPod does a great disservice to the Batman mythos. According to wikipedia,

    The Joker is a supervillain created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson who first appeared in the debut issue of the comic book Batman (April 25, 1940), published by DC Comics. Credit for the Joker's creation is disputed; Kane and Robinson claimed responsibility for the Joker's design while acknowledging Finger's writing contribution. Although the Joker was planned to be killed off during his initial appearance, he was spared by editorial intervention, allowing the character to endure as the archenemy of the superhero Batman.

    3) Let the UPS workers like what they like darn it. It's a free country.

    4) I am in violent agreement with JPod with regard to his observation about GW Bush. No one on the right complains about Ellen. There is an imbalance in leftist hatred. I am equally in agreement Rob Long's point that leftists can live their entire lives without hanging out with anyone who isn't totally on board with leftism.

    5) Ducks and chimps are way worse than the human species.

  • kedavis@kedavis
    Replyingtofilmklassik

    filmklassik (View Comment):

    Although incredibly bright, John sometimes speaks with tremendous authority on subjects about which he knows little.

    Aren't they all three kind of like that? Sometimes they remind me of what the character Duke Philips says in the great animated show The Critic, when he's running for president: "You think like the average Joe, the little guy making $300,000 a year."

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