We open the holiday travel season with the 20th anniversary of a John Hughes mid-80’s classic, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” with our returning guest, the Professional Asshole.
We get into a very dated movie that could not be made today as most of the problems that arise have since been solved by technology.
Still, a kind of fun movie that may be worth a watch every few years.
Check out our guests previous appearance where we talked about “3:10 to Yuma” at:
Google Description
Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife (Laila Robins) and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith (John Candy), whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.
Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planes,_Trains_and_Automobiles
During the movie, we discussed the physical removal of a passenger from an airline, here is the article related to that incident:
United Airlines Physically Removes Passenger, Some Perspective
Happy holidays everyone, and we wish you safe travels.
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Robert and I analyze popular movies from a Rothbardian/Anarcho-Capitalist perspective. If it’s voluntary, we’re cool with it. If it’s not, then it violated the Non-Aggression Principle and Property Rights – the core tenants of Libertarian Theory – and hence – human freedom.
We use movies as a starting point for people who may not be familiar with this way of thinking. Discussion of the plot and decisions that characters make in relation to morality and violations of the non-aggression principle are our bread and butter.
We also will highlight and discuss any themes or lessons from Austrian Economics that we can glean from the film.
The point is to show what anarchy actually is with instances that are presented in film.
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