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858 - That’s Not Entirely Accurate feat. Jon Bois (8/12/24)

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by video doc king Jon Bois to discuss some of his recent projects with Secret Base, specifically REFORM!, a history of Ross Perot and the Reform party. Jon shares his fascination and research into this bizarre eddy of American electoral politics, the various cranks and characters that populated it, and how the Reform Party prefigured a swath of our current political landscape. We also touch on James Rebhorn’s character in Independence Day, slipping on banana peels, and the best and worst of Olympic sports. Part 1 of the REFORM! Series is on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqaW1LrMTY Subscribe to Secret Base on Patreon for all of their premium content: https://www.patreon.com/SecretBase Rick Perlstein's POW/MIA piece Amber recommended: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/enduring-cult-vietnam-missing-action/

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0:00.0

The All I want to to be is a jumble.

0:24.0

Greetings, problems and great souls.

0:28.0

All I'm gonna be a jumble.

0:31.0

Greetings friends it's Monday August 12th and we've got some Chapo coming at you

0:39.3

it's me Amber and Felix today but we are joined by a good friend who has been way too long since he's been on the show.

0:47.0

Joining us now on the show is the commander-in-chief of Secret Base, the king of Data Visualization, and possibly the only person in America

0:56.6

who's seen the movie Independence Day more times than I have.

1:00.8

Welcome back to the show John Boys everybody.

1:03.0

Well everybody so great to be here second time long time I feel like I must be the

1:08.0

Mark as can be of Chappo Guess in the sense that I was here briefly in 1994 and then you look back at like 2013 and I'm

1:16.4

41 and there was he here the whole time what the fuck?

1:27.0

Now you're speaking my language John, but we're going to spend the day. We're going to talk to you about some of the things you got going on on a secret base, but mainly like I'd'd like, we're here to talk about the history of the Reform Party

1:38.0

and just sort of a major forgotten American political figure. And like you know if it turns

1:44.0

or if you're listening to this show you probably don't remember this guy but he was a

1:47.4

guy that like emerged into my political consciousness when I like right around the

1:51.8

time I started to become aware of politics and I am of

1:55.0

course talking about the founder the God of the Reform Party Mr Ross Perrault.

2:01.2

So John in your series on the history of the Reform Party like we are now entering

2:05.8

into yet another presidential election and the two-party duopoly or really you

2:11.0

know one-party system continues unabated.

2:15.0

So like, what was it about Ross Perot and the Reform Party

2:18.3

and that's sort of like semi-crankish but semi-noble effort

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