Genre Reveal Party‪!‬ Dave Maher and Madeline Lane-McKinley

To start off our latest season "School Days," we made you another trilogy! We discussed The Boarding School Trilogy: Dead Poets Society (1989), School Ties (1992), and Flirting (1991).
Spoilers: shower scenes, acne, poetry, anti-semitism, the horrible history of 'boarding schools' and genocide in the US, Thandiwe we love you, hand jobs, book deals, Robin Williams casting history, Matt Damon doesn't deserve a redemption arc, Madeline's problematic crush on Ethan Hawke, Dave's #TeamRobertSeanLeonard, University of Chicago confessions, standing on desks and playing saxophone in a cave, Gen-X, trilogies that stopped at two, Dick Wolf.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley

We've got one more chat about Season 2's theme "We Don't Need Another Hero." For our bonus episode we talked about Training Day (2001), featuring Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance as a crooked cop. Scholar, activist (and sports dad!) Dylan Rodriguez helped us think through this film, LA politics, and Hollywood copaganda.
Spoilers: Ethan Hawke's punchable face, all cops are crooked bastards, Snoop cameo, LAPD / Hollywood collaborations, NAACP, respectability politics, David Simon, King Kong, Macy Gray, post-9/11 patriotism, Denzel Washington in the '90s.
Dylan Rodriguez is the author of several books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (2021). He's kept his day job as a Professor at UC Riverside since 2001, where he teaches in the newly formed department Black Study as well as Media and Cultural Studies. You can find out more about his political work and scholarship at linktr.ee/dylanrodriguez73. Follow him on Twitter @dylanrodriguez.
Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.
Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley

To close out our season on heroes and villains, we talked about Mike Birbiglia's 2013 comedy special My Girlfriend's Boyfriend with guest Lucas O'Neil.
Spoilers: comedy talk, aspirations, inspirations, Death Cab for Cutie, white guys, "which," humiliation, controlling the narrative, Georgetown, geriatric millennial vibes, one man shows, clowns.
Find Lucas' tour dates and join his email list at lucasoneil.com. Follow him @mr.lucasoneil on Instagram and TikTok.
Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.
Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley

This week we dug into the recently concluded fifth season of FX's Fargo, with guest Kyle Lane-McKinley! We discuss the series as an adaptation of the 1996 Coen Brothers' film, and more broadly the Coenesque world. And we keep reflecting on the theme of our own season, heroes and villains.
Spoilers: Coencidences, Wizard of Oz, nipple rings and prosthetic nipples with rings, lions, tigers, bears, rabbits, gators, home invasion, 500 year old sin eaters, bisquick, allegories, Jon Hamm's BDE, redemption, David Graeber, scary men with women's haircuts, chili movies, etymologies, accents.
Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.
Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley

This week Madeline's best friend Jasmine joins us once again - our first second appearance on the podcast! We hope to have her on every season. This time around Jasmine assigned us with Inventing Anna, the 2022 Shonda Rhimes mini series about Anna Delvey aka Anna Sorokin.
Spoilers: poor people pretending to be rich and rich people pretending to be poor, failed Venn diagrams, hustling, grifting, scamming, Delveying, girlbossing and girlbitching, good acting, bad acting, good bad acting, The Shondaverse, more Survivor connections, Dave was in an episode of Chicago Med, cartoonish oral sex scene with Anthony Edwards, more about vampires, Ruth is the hero in Ozark, kind elders, wife guys, Jasmine watches Chicago Med before she goes to sleep sometimes.
Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.
Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley

This week we talked all things Survivor with comedian Ariel Elias. Like Dave, Ariel is a Survivor super-fan, and had lots to say about Season 20: Heroes and Villains.
Spoilers: Russell's eyes, poop in the ocean, pandemic binging, Russell's hat, libertarianism, all-coconut diets, Coach's vulnerability, Mae Martin & Parvati, no one gets to be a hero.
Ariel Elias is a comedian living in New York City. Described as “a sly young comic from Kentucky” by the New York Times, Ariel has also been featured in Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, and on Good Morning America. As a traveling stand-up comedian, she performed on the set of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was named a “New Face” at the 2021 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, as well as one of the Best Comedians of 2022. You can follow her @Ariel_Comedy on Instagram and Twitter.
Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.
Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.
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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige
Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley