About this episode

The GLoP crew celebrates America’s 250th birthday by discussing movies that explain the country in a humorous and digressive manner.

The GLoP crew celebrates America’s 250th birthday the only way they know how: by trying to name five movies that explain the country and somehow ending up in a ditch full of Fire Birds , Paper Moon , The Best Years of Our Lives , the mayor from Jaws , Mel Brooks at 100, Gila monsters, late-stage capitalism, early-stage diarrhea, and the eternal question of whether this is still technically a pop-culture podcast. It’s patriotic, digressive, occasionally disgusting, and probably more grateful for Western civilization than Western civilization deserves.

People in this episode

Host: GLoP crew

Topics covered

• patriotism
• American cinema
• pop culture
• Western civilization
• humor
• society

Keywords

• America
• movies
• patriotism
• pop culture
• Western civilization
• humor
• GLoP

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fire Birds, Paper Moon, The Best Years of Our Lives

Places: America, Western civilization

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