Nostalgia Trap - Episode 221: You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You w/ Danny Bessner (PREVIEW)
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
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Show Notes
Our journey through 90s Los Angeles with Danny Bessner continues with an exploration of the Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn indie bromance Swingers (1996). We talk about the film's depiction of pre-gentrification Hollywood, when non-rich people could still afford a social life (or at least a beer and a burger), and analyze the wider historical forces that produced the somewhat bizarre mid-decade pop culture swing revival of which Swingers was a major part. We discuss David's personal experiences with swing culture in Southern California, the blank culture of straight suburban whiteness, and the uneasy gender politics at play in Swingers and Gen X culture more widely. And we learn of Danny's heretofore unacknowledged appreciation of Guy Fieri.
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