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Episode 27 – Finding Nemo (1:15:03)

Happy Father’s Day! With many movies to choose from, we were happy to choose one that is a favorite of our guest: Finding Nemo. The story of one father’s quest to save his last-surviving child. He overcomes the trauma of losing his wife and most of his other kids to travel thousands of miles from home encountering killer sharks, war refuse mines, surfer turtles dude-bruh, stinging jellyfish (don’t tase me bro!), and a forgetful friend.

Our guest is Jeremiah Martin who we met in the Tom Woods supporting listeners group.  It’s a great conversation with a legitimate movie-reviewer angle.  Also, just so you all know.  Tom hates Crush.

http://tomwoods.com/ep-896-thaddeus-russell-launches-renegade-university-the-opposite-of-our-crummy-universities/

Dude…buddy…whoa…like totally….

The story in the movie is pretty good and well done, but it reminded me a throwaway line in another movie I like:

From the film, “A Cabin in the Woods”

Here is the Google info:

Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by a diver, and horrified Marlin must set out to find him. A blue reef fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) — who has a really short memory — joins Marlin and complicates the encounters with sharks, jellyfish, and a host of ocean dangers. Meanwhile, Nemo plots his escape from a dentist’s fish tank.

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Episode 25 – The Running Man (1:11:00)

In what could become a string of Arnold movies that we do in coming months, we take on the dystopian-nightmare in the post-economic collapse world of 2017 to discuss the Stephen King inspired film, the Running Man.  The movie is right up our alley as an anti-authoritarian message that shows the propaganda and entertainment that is pushed to maintain control over the masses.  Get strapped into your metal-under-the-city-bobsled and journey with us into the arena.

In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is “The Running Man” — a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape.

It’s a fun popcorn flick with peak Schwarzenegger and one of the worst villains (on a scale of corny-ness) in cinematic film history:

Dynamo

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Episode 24 – Hacksaw Ridge (2:06:50)

We discuss the anti-war/pro-war Mel Gibson film Hacksaw Ridge that follows the story of PFC Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector to aggressive violence as he enlists in the military to compromise his principles (though the story seems to deny this).

Here is the flawed, and incorrect Google description:

 The true story of Pfc. Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield), who won the Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to bear arms during WWII on religious grounds. Doss was drafted and ostracized by fellow soldiers for his pacifist stance but went on to earn respect and adoration for his bravery, selflessness and compassion after he risked his life — without firing a shot — to save 75 men in the Battle of Okinawa.

Here is the trailer:

In the show we bring up a number of things that don’t fit in with the official narrative we are told in school, media and political recollection.  You can continue believe what you have been told, or you can realize that being told something might have more to do with the tellers than what is told.

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Episode 23 – Dazed and Confused (1:41:26)

Alright, alright, alright…if you were listening to our last show and thinking that we should have a guest…as in, “it would be a lot cooler if we did” you’re in luck.  This week’s show is about the coming-of-age high school movie set in 1976, Dazed and Confused with our special guest Mike Brancatelli of the podcast Mikeadelic!

Here is the ridiculously wrong Google description:

This coming-of-age film follows the mayhem of group of rowdy teenagers in Austin, Texas, celebrating the last day of high school in 1976. The graduating class heads for a popular pool hall and joins an impromptu keg party, however star football player Randall “Pink” Floyd (Jason London) has promised to focus on the championship game and abstain from partying. Meanwhile, the incoming freshmen try to avoid being hazed by the seniors, most notably the sadistic bully Fred O’Bannion (Ben Affleck).

And for those reading impaired, the theatrical trailer:

We discuss several themes ranging from the drug war, compulsory schooling, government-induced mental illness and more in this episode.

Here is the Wiki on the movie:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(film)

For more information on our guest, check out his show here:

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Episode 21 – Star Trek Beyond (1:42:28)

It may say “Star Trek Beyond” in the title, but we go waaaaay beyond in this one with our guest Mark E. Deardorff of www.ScienceViaMarkets.com.  In fact, for nearly 2 hours we talk about science-fiction in general, authors, warp-theory, energy mass, holodecks, replicators, Einstein, and more.

We get side-tracked quite a bit on this one and don’t give as much of a movie synopsis/analysis like our normal fare – so for those interested in that, here is the marketing slick for the movie and the trailer:

A surprise attack in outer space forces the Enterprise to crash-land on a mysterious world. The assault came from Krall (Idris Elba), a lizard-like dictator who derives his energy by sucking the life out of his victims. Krall needs an ancient and valuable artifact that’s aboard the badly damaged starship. Left stranded in a rugged wilderness, Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the crew must now battle a deadly alien race while trying to find a way off their hostile planet.

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Episode 20 – The Big Short (1:50:41)

We bring on a special guest, Daniel J., to discuss the allegedly true (hence the asterisk) story behind the housing bust and subsequent financial crisis of 2008 as depicted in The Big Short (also a book of the same name by Michael Lewis) .  There is a lot going on here, and we don’t even get to the asymmetrical aptitudes of the players vs. the regulators, or the scandal involving the regulators spending their time looking at porn, or the alarm-bells being sounded by the likes of Brooksley Born that went unheeded.

 

The Big Short:

Here is the trailer:

Here is the marketing spin on the movie:

Based on the true story of four outsiders who saw what the big banks, media and government refused to: the global collapse of the economy. A bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of banking, where everyone and everything is in question.

In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting. Burry bets against the housing market by throwing more than $1 billion of his investors’ money into credit default swaps. His actions attract the attention of banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), hedge-fund specialist Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and other greedy opportunists. Together, these men make a fortune by taking full advantage of the impending economic collapse in America.

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Episode 19 – War Dogs (1:48:53)

This week we discuss the movie about some dude-bro international arms dealers, War Dogs starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.  It’s a ridiculous idea made possible by ridiculous government policy.

The film follows two friends in their early 20s (Hill and Teller) living in Miami during the Iraq War who exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a $300 million deal to arm the Afghan Military—a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government.

Just Robert and I on this one as we kick off some rust from not recording a show for a few weeks.

Here is the Robert Higgs book that we recommend during the episode:

Hayek article:  Why the Worst Get on Top

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Episode 17 – Ghostbusters (1:39:56)

Episode 17 of the Actual Anarchy Podcast is a sweeping two-film discussion about the original Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd  from the 1980’s, and the all-female SJW-spooktackular starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.  Joining us, appropriately enough, are two guests – one male, one female as we tackle this tale of entrepreneurs vs. the state and then the state colluding with the state!

Ghostbusters (1984) trailer:

Ghostbusters (SJW) trailer:

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Our guests’ work can be found at:

https://libertopiacartoon.wordpress.com/

Yes it’s true. This man has no dick.

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Episode 16 – The Breakfast Club (1:44:19)

“It will be Anarchy!”  We bring on a special guest to talk about the John Hughes classic, “the Breakfast Club”.  This iconic movie really just serves as a springboard into a copious variety of topics ranging from schools, prisons, gun rights, the industrial revolution, monarchy and more.

 

 

They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m. they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. John Hughes, creator of the critically acclaimed Sixteen Candles, wrote, directed and produced this hilarious and often touching comedy starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. To the outside world they were simply the Jock, the Brain, the Criminal, the Princess and the Kook, but to each other, they would always be “The Breakfast Club”.

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