#139 - This Isn't Dallas

Published: Feb. 1, 2020, 2:14 a.m.

Set against the backdrop of the country music industry and a soft-populist presidential campaign, Robert Altman's masterpiece NASHVILLE (1975) seeks to encompass all of America. Luke and Will discuss what this behemoth of a movie has to say about fame, politics, and relationship between the coasts and the "Heartland." PLUS: discussion of the three most important progressive firebrands of our era, Pete Buttigieg, Alan Dershowitz, and Film Twitter personality Bob "The Moviebob" Chipman.