1943: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
1943... the world's at war, and the film world is reacting, but in ways good and bad. For you see, inside all of us are two wolves: Rick's Café American, and the Stage Door Canteen. And the Academy and Audience fed very different wolves. The Oscars hand the top trophy to Casablanca, about as correct a choice as can be made, while the audience turned out for army fundraiser This is the Army with Ronald Reagan, which our returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe likens to the US funding Al Qaeda in the 80s: not one of the ten worst things Reagan did, but still not great. It's a best of times, worst…
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