Remember Shuffle

With the campaign of Barack Obama in 2007-2008, the U.S. saw a resurgence in interest in Nelson Mandela, with Americans projecting a parallel with our own first black president. You can almost hear the gears turning in Clint Eastwood’s mind watching 2009’s Invictus–hoping to goad Obama towards symbolic reconciliation rather than expropriative redistribution. We look at Obama’s initial posturing an...

Welcome to our O.C. episode, Bitch! The Shuffle Bois are joined by Dan (IG: @troop_hater ) to discuss an incredible piece of teen melodrama, postmodern comedy, and Trojan horse for character-driven drama, The O.C. After briefly describing the backstory of the show's creation, they analyze the show's memorable characters and do episode deep dives on three of their favourites. They then turn to the...

/this is a demo, check out the full episode at: patreon.com/RememberShuffle Another listener suggestion yields beautiful, ripe fruit for the pod as we follow up our last episode on Cyberwarfare with a movie whose plot is essentially the fictionalization of the warnings in the book “This is how they tell me the world ends”.Much to ponder on this Intellectual Property reboot whose buddy cop pairing...

New military industrial complex just dropped! In this spiritual sequel to our drones episode, the Shuffle Bois take you, the listener, into the exciting cloak-and-dagger world of the black market cyber weapons trade. After defining key terms - hackers, vendors, clients, and zero days - they trace the history and developments of this new field of warfare through the 2000s. They then analyze some of...

This is a Patreon demo. Join to hear us do a deep dive into the end of the Cold War in Germany, Ostalgie, and the most internationally famous film in the artistic movement, Good Bye, Lenin! Sometimes, you need to gaslight your sick mother for the greater good. Remember Shuffle is joined by Nick of the Corner Späti podcast for their first foray into foreign film, 2003's Good Bye Lenin, the best kno...

What’s the only thing that can stop 80 bad-guys-with-a gun, 1 Good-Guy-with-a-lot-of-guns. The year is 2006 and the adolescent Baby Boom Echo is about to be treated to a variety of brainless action options at the cinema. Come explore two of the latter-decade’s finest genre movies–unapologetically themselves and honest about what they are offering: cartoonish aestheticized violence.  ⁠Give Remember...

"We have to go back! (?)" Remember Shuffle turns to one of the premiere network TV dramas of the 2000s, ABC's "Lost," proof that you can't quite fit the round peg of creator-driven, prestige-style drama into the square hole of a traditional TV network. After introducing the ensemble cast of melodramatically tragic characters, the Shuffle Bois + Sam do season-long plot recaps of a show that became...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Shuffle Bois! It’s your yearly Christmas episode drop, and this year we’re taking a look at two instant classics from the 2000s, Robert Zemeckis' “Polar Express” (2004) and “Christmas Carol (2009). These two films represent Robert Zemeckis’ attempt to transcend the limits of the fleshy human body through the power of computers and technology. And they st...

This is a Patreon demo. Join to hear us close out our Lord of the Rings series with our Return of the King episode! Get in loser, we’re going to Elf Heaven. Remember Shuffle closes out its review of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy with a Return of the King Review. The Shuffle Bois do a quick plot recap of this sprawling entry to the trilogy before discussing the film’s style and themes -...

“Remember when” is the lowest form of conversation–we put that theory to the test on this episode on the pokemania of the late 90s and early 2000s. After unexpected success in Japan, Pokemon launches in America in late 1998 and becomes ubiquitous in America soon after as not a single media, but as an entire world accessible through video games, TV, cards, movies, and plush toys. We discuss the glo...

This is a Patreon demo. Join to hear part one of our book club on the history of the Soviet Union as well as a Return of the King episode in two weeks! Part 1 of our 2 (?) part series on Sheila Fitzpatrick’s ‘The Shortest History of the Soviet Union’. In this part 1, we cover the years 1860-1960 starting from the emancipation of the serfs to the end of Kruschev. ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/Remembe...

For their 100th episode spectacular the Shuffle Bois turn to what might be the most influential piece of media from the 2000s, The Apprentice. Since 2015 we have lived in a world dominated by the toxic runoff of a 2004 game show. The Shuffle Bois continue their discussion of reality TV they began with Survivor to talk about the many noxious societal effects of this dumb, exploitative genre. After...

Part 1 of our 2 part series on Mark Burnett. Survivor took over American culture by storm, becoming a dominant fixture of TV that changed the economics of TV production for the worse. We dig into themes of the desert island as ideal, orientalism, and labor bargaining. The Apprentice coming next week for episode 100! Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShu...

The Shuffle Bois turn for the first time to the world of fashion and analyze the rise and fall of the iconic teen fashion brand of the 2000s, Abercrombie & Fitch. To do so, they are joined by Colettte Shade, author of “ Y2K : How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on a future that never was.” They discuss the meteoric rise of this teen fashion icon, the alleged sex criminals that formed its b...

This is a Patreon demo. Join to hear our full thoughts on the 2000s Zombie Comedy films! In a decade obsessed with parody, it was only a matter of time before zombies got their turn. This episode covers Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Zombieland (2009)—bookends of the 2000s that chart the evolution of the zombie comedy, from British deadpan to American violent excess (with some epic redditness thrown...

It's our spooky season episode! Remember Shuffle turns to a much requested topic, the zombie films of the 2000s. After tracing the history of zombie media and mythology, they review two major tentpoles of 2000s Zombie films, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's "28 Days Later" (2002) and Zack Snyder and James Gunn's "Dawn of the Dead" (2004). The Shuffle Bois discuss the themes and big ideas of these fi...

Join the patreon to listen to part 2 of our 2006 Victorian stage magician series. The Shuffle Boys talk about the Hapsburg Empire. Unlike the Prestige, the change in setting to the Austro-Hungarian Empire offers a new lens for discussing magic, more in terms of politics and empire: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle

Here is the plot structure diagram we mention:  https://preview.redd.it/rvwbt8x46ea41.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9463c6ebcc29c245435e7abdadf1410f92a4aa8 Remember the 2006 Autumn of the two Victorian era stage magician movies? We cover the the better/more popular one on the main feed. We look at friend-of-the-pod Chris Nolan’s 2000s classic about modernity, rivalry, and craf...

This is a Patreon Demo. Join to hear our full thoughts on the 2000s dumbest Bond movie. We talk space lasers, lairs, race swapping, puns, and surfing mechanics in our review of Pierce Brosnan's swan song to 007. ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle And make sure you sign up through the browser–not through the app, to save yourself 50%!

It’s a gritty reboot for Remember ShuffleJoin the patreon to listen to the 2nd part of this episode on Die Another Day (coming later this week) ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests. 

Join the patreon to listen to the 2nd part of our Sopranos Season 4 episode on the season finale, Whitecaps! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle We break down one of the Soprano’s masterpiece episode, in which Tony and Carmela’s marriage becomes the biggest whacking of the season. We discuss how all the details this season have built to this point, and themes of class with his lawyer neighb...

eyyy, there they are, the loyle Sopranos episode listener. We return the mulecart to the Sopranos well to fill up our buckets with talk on what season 4 was trying to talk about: Alienation and the weakening of all Tony’s social bonds. We break down 3 episodes: the oft-maligned ‘Christopher’, the unforgetably funny ‘The Strong, Silent Type’, and the polarizing ‘Watching Too Much TV’. Then wrap up...

We finally did it. We lib out for 90 minutes to the first two seasons of Aaron Sorkin’s most successful project: The West Wing. A centrist liberal projection of an idealized America in the year 2000.  We break out our characters, and do a deep dive on Somebody’s going to emergency, somebody’s going to Jail, In Excelsis Dio, and Shiboleth. And then wrap up by trying to identify the very difficult q...

This is a free demo--Full episode episode can be found at patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle . The 2nd part of our weekend double feature, the Shuffle Bois turn again to the Mann-well. Mr Mann is at it again with Miami Vice (2006), a reboot of a groundbreaking TV show he created in the 1980s. Like Collateral, it’s got Audioslave, themes of professionalism and identity–but this time adding on some thoug...

This is a free demo--Full episode 90 minute episode can be found at patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle. The Shuffle Bois turn to an absolute auteur of a director, Michael Mann, in a two-part series on a selection of his work from the 2000s, Collateral and Miami Vice. In part one, they discuss Michael Mann's ideology regarding individual autonomy, work, and social connection across his films before doin...