55: They Live w/guest Jon Lee Brody

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on John Carpenter's film They Live, exploring its themes of class struggle and alien influence.

This week we're joined by our friend Jon Lee Brody of the That Was Pretty Spooky podcast for a look at John Carpenter's last movie of the 1980s, They Live. In this evergreen social commentary, Carpenter presents a world very much like our own where the only class distinction is rich and poor and as it would turn out, the rich aren't even human. In They Live a homeless man with no name drifts into Los Angeles looking for work and stumbles into a conspiracy by an underground of the underclasses to fight back against the elite wealth class which rules the world with fantastic technology that keeps humanity asleep while hidden aliens loot the earth of its resources, leaving the rest of us poor and at one another's throats for what crumbs they afford us. Join the Bring Me The Axe Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/snkxuxzJ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support Bring Me The Axe! on Patreon:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ https://patreon.com/bringmetheaxepod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Buy Bring Me The Axe merch here:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.bonfire.com/store/bring-me-the-axe-podcast/⁠⁠

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan White, Dave White

Guest: Jon Lee Brody

Topics covered

• social commentary
• class distinction
• conspiracy
• aliens
• technology
• underground movement

Keywords

• They Live
• John Carpenter
• class struggle
• aliens
• social commentary
• conspiracy
• underground movement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: That Was Pretty Spooky, Bring Me The Axe

Books & works: They Live

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