UNLOCKED! Bonus Ep37 'Dick' (1999)
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Another in our series of election year chats about movies about presidents. Originally published 18th October, exclusive for Patreon subscribers of Daniel or Jack, now released for all.
By patron request, we watched and discussed 1999's delightful neo-screwball teensploitation 70s-nostalgiafest Dick, in which two teenage girls - Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams - accidentally find themselves befriending Richard Nixon (Dan Hedaya) and becoming entangled in Watergate. It's terribly fun.
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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. Failure. |
| 0:17.0 | Possible. Your employer? The American people. The few chosen have been the presidents. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome back to another edition of IDSG bonus episodes. The presidential movies run up to the |
| 0:36.2 | election edition, and the election is racing towards us. |
| 0:40.3 | Daniel, how's everything doing out there in nearly the election time America? |
| 0:46.4 | It's getting there. |
| 0:47.4 | We get about three weeks to go at this point, and boy, it's, yeah, the yard signs are multiplying. |
| 0:54.0 | It's just, you know, you live in a swing state. It's just, it's just delightful, the yard signs are multiplying. |
| 0:55.8 | It's just, you know, you live in a swing state. |
| 0:58.3 | It's just, it's just delightful. |
| 1:00.0 | So, uh, sure. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.4 | I love the, I love how just impossible it is to find anything like any kind of consistency in the polls. |
| 1:09.8 | I just think that's wonderful. I mean, it really just, |
| 1:11.8 | this really is a toss-up. It should not in any sense be a toss-up. This should be a very obvious |
| 1:16.2 | decision for people, but apparently it is still a toss-up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it always is, |
| 1:22.1 | isn't it? American elections are always decided by fractional differences. They're always decided |
| 1:27.2 | by, you know, percentage points within the margin of statistical error. |
| 1:32.5 | And ultimately, I suspect they're generally very little to do with the personalities of candidates. |
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