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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 ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberSh...

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...

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 craftsmanship. J...

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 Shuffle Join 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...

Season-long plot chart: https://x.com/RememberShuffle/status/1965431303438041404 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 ‘T...

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 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 doing an in-d...

Mission: Accomplished . In the final episode of their series on Iraq, the Shuffle Bois turn to how “Hope and Change” Obama would handle the quagmire of Iraq he inherited. They discuss how the Iraq War ended with a whimper rather than a bang. En route, they discuss Obama’s relationship with his generals, his propensity towards compromise and management, and the state of Iraq that America left behin...

One of the first episodes we ever wanted to record for the pod, Snakes on a Plane. We explore the brief 2006-era window of big budget B-movies. ⁠Check out our Patreon feed for the full episode⁠ : ( https://patreon.com/RememberShuffle?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink ) And make sure you sign up through the browser–not through...

We dive into the shiny, explosive world of 2008’s Iron Man, the film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Celebrated for Robert Downey Jr.’s charismatic performance and its slick visuals, it offers a surface level critique of the of the military-industrial complex. The ideology and methods that Iron Man embodies though, are identical to American exceptionalism. Not to mention that the cost...

This is a free demo--Full episode 90 minute episode can be found at: patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle It's a music episode! The Shuffle Bois turn to an early 2000s artist that NME Magazine called "The Saviour of Music" and Pitchfork Magazine called "A horseman of the apocalypse," Andrew WK. The Shuffle bois first trace the surprisingly interesting life of Andrew WK before the 2001/2002 release of his...

The Shuffle bois turn to the pivotal years 2006-8 of the Iraq war, featuring the Iraqi Civil War, the US troop surge, and the military “genius” of treating Iraqis with basic human empathy. After tracing the history of this period - how the civilian leadership continued to bury its head in the sand, how the strategy began to slowly change towards sending more troops, and how Americans largely tuned...

Skip ahead to 9:30 for Robin Williams content.  We dive headfirst into the lightning-fast, unfiltered mind of Robin Williams's 2002 stand-up special, Live on Broadway. After a 16-year hiatus from major touring, Williams stormed the stage like a human cyclone.  Was it improvised? Was it structured? This episode dives into whether the sheer volume of material and the relentless pace overshadowed...

This is a free Demo--Full episode can be found at: patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle The Shuffle Bois turn from the worst Classics adaptation of the 2000s (Troy) to what might be the best, the Coen Brothers' "O Brother Where Art Thou." After describing the source material - Homer's Odyssey - the bois give a plot summary of the Cohen brothers' southern folklore epic. They then dis...

In part four of Remember Shuffle’s ongoing series on the Iraq War, Remember Shuffle is joined by guests Lyle Jeremy Rubin and Van Jackson, the hosts of the [Bang-Bang] podcast . We turn now to the ramping up of violence in the years 2004-2005, and the United States refusal to recognize the current battle space: one of counter insurgency. As always we end our discussion with a movie set during this...

In part three of Remember Shuffle’s ongoing series on the Iraq War, the Shuffle Bois turn their investigative eyes to the CPA and the first year of the occupation. They close out by reviewing The Green Zone, a very weak attempt to fictionalize the story of Green Zone: Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Baghdad Burning Blog: https://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twit...

The Wolfowitz of Wall Street--In part two of Remember Shuffle’s ongoing series on the Iraq War, the Shuffle Bois turn their investigative eyes to whose fault this war was. After digging down into the ideological tenets of Neoconservatism and describing the prime suspects of this mass murder case, they do a deep dive into the history of the lead-up to the war from 2001-2003. En route, they describe...

Full episode can be found at: patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle In an episode that will echo through the millenia, the Shuffle Bois return to the world of sword and sandals flicks to review a film that got Ben Troygered, “Troy” (2004). Troy is a perfect example of the "grounded and realistic" period pieces that proliferated in the 2000s that somehow were neither grounded or realistic or fun....

It’s “Anarchy” in the UK as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of V for Vendetta by metaphorically blowing up the veneration for this very mid movie. Alan Moore himself disassociated himself from this movie after complaining that they had made the movie about “current American Neoconservatism vs current american liberalism” rather than ANARCHY VS FACISM. Totalitarianism, Reddit Guy-ness, and SYMBOL...