UNLOCKED! Bonus 36 Frost/Nixon (2008)
I Don't Speak German
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Daniel and Jack sit down across from each other in brown leather armchairs and ruthlessly interrogate each other about their many crimes. We also continue our election year series on movies about (or at least mentioning) US Presidents by talking over the deeply mid 2008 Ron Howard movie Frost/Nixon, an almost entirely fictional account of some TV interviews in which a chat show host helped a mass murdering crook present himself to the world as a thoughtful and moral person, to enormous acclaim. Thankfully the media learned their lesson and don't launder horrific people anymore just because they're powerful.
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| 0:00.0 | Wanted. Ambitious individual for leadership position. |
| 0:05.0 | Be prepared for difficult application process and stressful work environment. |
| 0:11.0 | Challenges, many. Rewards, numerous. |
| 0:16.0 | Failure, possible. Your employer, the American people. |
| 0:21.6 | The few chosen have been the presidents. |
| 0:30.6 | It is now clear that Richard Nixon and close AIDS conspired to to sabotage peace talks to getting elected in 1968. |
| 0:40.3 | They massively, directly and covertly interfered in a major diplomatic negotiation, |
| 0:50.3 | the most sensitive, not only going on at the time, but probably one of the most important |
| 0:54.8 | negotiations in American diplomatic history. |
| 0:58.7 | In 1968, Richard Nixon is the Republican nominee for the president. |
| 1:03.1 | Hubert Humphrey is the Democratic Vice President and eventual nominee. |
| 1:07.8 | And Nixon realizes that Johnson, President Johnson's efforts to bring North Vietnam to the peace table and to begin an end to the Vietnam conflict, |
| 1:16.6 | Nixon realizes that these efforts are going to be bad for his bid for the presidency. |
| 1:21.6 | And so he makes a secret overture to South Vietnam to discourage them from going to the peace talks and instead |
| 1:29.5 | to wait until he has secured the presidency. |
| 1:32.4 | And it's another I Don't Speak German bonus episode. |
| 1:35.5 | And it's the latest installment in our ongoing, because the election is still ongoing, |
| 1:41.1 | at least at the time of recording. |
| 1:43.3 | And it seems like it will just be ongoing forever. |
| 1:46.8 | Our ongoing series of movies about, sort of, about the American presidency. |
| 1:53.0 | And Daniel is here also. |
| 1:54.5 | I hope he's not, then we're in trouble. |
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