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John Waters' transgressive masterpiece FEMALE TROUBLE (1974) envisions a moral and aesthetic universe in which everything ugly is beautiful and vice versa. We discuss the film's radically queer vision, and the way it dissolves the barrier between high and low culture. We also discuss the seismic impact that John Waters had on one of the cohosts as a young man (hint: it's Will), and how an iconoclast becomes an elder statesman. PLUS: Trump's (non-)impeachment, Woody Allen's new movie, and why it can be more productive to criticize liberals than conservatives.

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Andrew M

Been thinking about Will’s point that A Dirty Shame was ahead of its time with its sex positive messaging, what with it being surrounded by normie sex comedies like American Pie etc. Agreed that there's an audience for it now, but who's going to make it?

Andrew M

struggling to think of anything since Waters called it a day that's dared to be mildly kinky or transgressive. As far as matter-of-fact, non-judgmental kink goes, there's next to nothing. (Clooney's dildo chair in Burn After Reading, Clint's threesome in The Mule, Verhoeven's Elle, and that might be it?). I bet an argument could be made that the last couple decades has become even more conservative than the one that rejected Waters, what with more moralistic takes on smut like 50 Shades being the norm

Shane

As petty as this is...someone I was very close with in college, a formative friend who protested the Iraq war with me....he and his wife supported mayo Pete in the primary and it sits as one of the most painful things in my political world that year. I know it's petty.

Shane

El Topo, Acid Western shout out from Will, midnight movies