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#651 - Break the Barrel (Patreon)

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2025-08-30 05:28:48
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TreeKiller

I live in OK and I dont think people over 65 eat at cracker barrel. But what do I know, I mostly eat cold oats and peanut butter.

Karlo

Cracker Barrel is road trip food. Apple Bees is for family meals on a Thursday night. Rarely competitive in my experience.

emalco

I love this movie and had no idea it was so critically reviled at the time of its release. Another important piece of 1999-era historical context is the incredibly recent HIV-AIDS crisis. It’s hard to believe, but the highly active antiretroviral therapy that made living with HIV possible only became available in 1996, three years before the film came out. The calamity and consciousness of the AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s can’t be overstated and the two kinds of politics that emerged from it are still with us. First, the radical activism from groups like ACT UP, including the invention of the concept of safe sex and the demand for political recognition and healthcare for gay people. And second, the patriarchal right-wing religious reaction that saw the disease as divine punishment against those who did not submit to the sex-gender system. Your comparison of this movie to American Pie is apt, throwing into relief why Cheerleader met with such hostility: it’s a queer feminist movie that foregrounds a female character who goes on a hero’s journey to reject heterosexuality. American Pie, for all its claims to assault norms and decency, is fundamentally aligned to the most conservative project there is: reinforcing heterosexuality and women’s place within that system as an object (the eponymous Pie as metonym for vagina, which is itself a synecdoche for “woman,” so many abstractions away from being seen as a real person).

Daniel Leary

Moe’s Family Feed Bag changed their logo and MAGA lost their minds.

Shane

The cracker barrel "win" makes the release of the Snyder cut look like the achievement of the 4 day work week.

olly

this is a sweet episode :’) i like it when you do girl stuff

Ace

You two should check up on Buford Pusser

David

Luke: congrats on getting under Matt Yglesias's skin. We are all proud!

Paul Brewer

IIRC, Owen Hatherly made a similar point about the 1990s being conservative/disappointing. I didn't feel it myself. For me it was the era when the British elite's old ways collapsed under the crashing commercially populist wave that gave us lad mags, the Spice Girls, the Last Night of the Proms' patriotic turn, Premier League football and the Barmy Army in cricket to end that traditional British reticence and fustiness. It was replaced with a ghastly sentimentalism that really shone forth after the death of Princess Diana. A very radical, transformational decade, in that regard presided over more by Sir John Major than Tony Blair.