Oct 18, 2022
This week we're forced to soberly confront our own mortality to
the stark strains of a Polish funeral dirge sung in a small-town
graveyard. In MIRACLE OF THE BELLS (1948), Sinatra's film career
makes a shockingly drastic departure from campy musicals to a
dead-serious Catholic melodrama about a man making funeral
preparations for a young woman who dies of lung cancer. This
episode goes to some real dark places, including some long tangents
about police abolition and climate justice. But the real question
is: is DON'T WORRY DARLING the MIRACLE OF THE BELLS of today, and
vice versa? Someone on Twitter thinks so; we put a hot take to the
test. Also, was Joan of Arc trans and does it even matter?
This week we recommend the podcast Ad Creeps, the book The
End of Policing by Alex Vitale and MIND GAME (2004).
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