#459 - Jerry's Kids (Patreon)

From 1966 to 2010, THE JERRY LEWIS MDA LABOR DAY TELETHON raised billions for muscular dystrophy causes. It also lived long enough to become a relic of a long-gone monoculture, and incited the wrath of disability advocates. We discuss a bona fide American cultural phenomenon from a very, very different time.

"Jerry Lewis Told Me I Was Going to Die" by Matthew Del Papa - https://store.latitude46publishing.com/products/jerry-lewis-told-me-i-was-going-to-die

"Notes Towards the Devaluation of Woody Allen" by Jonathan Rosenbaum - https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2023/06/21337/