160 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
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The lads protect their precious bodily fluids and fight in the war room as they cover Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War paranoia masterwork: Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Topics include Kubrick’s early career, fluoridation, and what it means to worry about the bomb when the rest of the world is burning.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1964.
- “Armando Iannucci: Why I rewrote Dr Strangelove for our new era of nuclear terror” by Armando Iannucci. The Telegraph. October 5th, 2024.
- Citations Needed: Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare
- “Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus” by Charles Maland. American Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 5, Special Issue: Film and American Studies (Winter, 1979), pp. 697-717. The John Hopkins University Press.
- “Mr. Roughcut: or: how graphic designer Pablo Ferro learned to split the screen, cut the crap and tell the story (in the time it took to run the titles)” by Steven Heller and Pablo Ferro. Eye Magazine. Summer 1999.
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Commercial: “Dr. Strangelove’s Subterranean Swingalows” // Performed and Improvised by David Armstrong // Encouraged by A.J. Ditty