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 brain trust, and what the types of marketing targeted at young people said about consumerist aspirations in the 2000s.
Huge shoutout to the book “The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture,” by Myles Ethan Lascity, which was one of our main sources for this episode.
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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 in).
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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 films, including individualism vs communitarianism, politics and class, as well as their tropes and style.
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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.
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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 neighbor, Alan Sapinsly.
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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 with looking at how 9/11 influenced the season and themes of Class.
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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 question of “just what exactly does the Bartlett administration stand for anyway?”
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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 thoughts on globalism.
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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-depth review of his 2004 film Collateral. En route they discuss professionalism and work, monotony and spontaneity, and an all-time favourite topic of both the director and the cohosts, urbanism.
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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 behind. They then turn to discuss the lasting impact of this catastrophic and cataclysmic war on the world.
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us throughout this series!
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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.
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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 of Stark’s redemption arc is the death of a thousand middle-budget dramas
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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 first album "I Get Wet." They review this seminal album of the 2000s before discussing some themes and big ideas: irony and artifice for performers, the role of technology in music production in the early 2000s, and Andrew WK as modern-day Dionysus. En route, they discuss Andrew WK's afterlife as a meme, explore the conspiracy theories around his identity, and describe the sound of "Jackpot Rock" that he exemplified.
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 out in 2008 - they zoom out and discuss the big ideas and questions around the surge. Was it a success? Did America learn anything from it? Why did we never get a big budget Hollywood surge movie? The carnival of horrors continues in Part 5 of Remember Shuffle’s Iraq War series.
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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 the strength of the jokes themselves. Was it a brilliant display of Robin’s unique mind, or did the "stream of consciousness" become a bit more of a facile chaotic torrent?
So grab your water bottles, prepare for rapid-fire associations, and listen in as we try to keep up with the one, the only, Robin Williams.
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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 discuss some themes of the film - the North's view of the South in 2000, the place of music in the film, and the various mythologies of the film. They close out, as always, with the echoes in the culture, looking forward to Christopher Nolan's 2026 Odyssey adaptation.
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 period: American Sniper and Warfare.
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For more on Counter Insurgency as “conservative, high-modern utopianism”, see Van’s conversation on his other podcast, Un-Diplomatic: www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-reactionary-worldmaking-of-counter
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