For their 100th episode spectacular the Shuffle Bois turn to what might be the most influential piece of media from the 2000s, The Apprentice. Since 2015 we have lived in a world dominated by the toxic runoff of a 2004 game show. The Shuffle Bois continue their discussion of reality TV they began with Survivor to talk about the many noxious societal effects of this dumb, exploitative genre. After tracing the history and explaining the format of the show, they do a recap of the show's first season as well as its first "celebrity" iteration. They then discuss themes and big ideas behind the show, including branding, middle management training, the mechanics of reality TV, racism, and sexism.Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter And on Instagram @RememberShufflePod to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.And don't forget to check out our Patreon!Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter And on Instagram @RememberShufflePod to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.And don't forget to check out our Patreon!
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Survivor: E99 Reality TikiVision
Part 1 of our 2 part series on Mark Burnett. Survivor took over American culture by storm, becoming a dominant fixture of TV that changed the economics of TV production for the worse. We dig into themes of the desert island as ideal, orientalism, and labor bargaining. The Apprentice coming next week for episode 100!Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter And on Instagram @RememberShufflePod to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.
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Abercrombie & Fitch: E98 Stop Trying to Make Fitch Happen
The Shuffle Bois turn for the first time to the world of fashion and analyze the rise and fall of the iconic teen fashion brand of the 2000s, Abercrombie & Fitch. To do so, they are joined by Colettte Shade, author of “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on a future that never was.” They discuss the meteoric rise of this teen fashion icon, the alleged sex criminals that formed its brain trust, and what the types of marketing targeted at young people said about consumerist aspirations in the 2000s. Huge shoutout to the book “The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture,” by Myles Ethan Lascity, which was one of our main sources for this episode. Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter And on Instagram @RememberShufflePod to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests. For more on Colette Shade, check out her website and give her a follow on BlueSky.
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2000s Zom-Coms: E97 Dawn of the Deadpan | DEMO
This is a Patreon demo. Join to hear our full thoughts on the 2000s Zombie Comedy films!In a decade obsessed with parody, it was only a matter of time before zombies got their turn. This episode covers Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Zombieland (2009)—bookends of the 2000s that chart the evolution of the zombie comedy, from British deadpan to American violent excess (with some epic redditness thrown in).https://www.patreon.com/c/RememberShuffle And make sure you sign up through the browser–not through the app, to save yourself 50%!
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2000s Zombie Filims: E96 Apocalypse Chow
It's our spooky season episode! Remember Shuffle turns to a much requested topic, the zombie films of the 2000s. After tracing the history of zombie media and mythology, they review two major tentpoles of 2000s Zombie films, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's "28 Days Later" (2002) and Zack Snyder and James Gunn's "Dawn of the Dead" (2004). The Shuffle Bois discuss the themes and big ideas of these films, including individualism vs communitarianism, politics and class, as well as their tropes and style.Join the patreon to listen to the 2nd part of this episode on Zombie parody films, dropping next weekend https://www.patreon.com/c/RememberShuffleGive Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter And on Instagram @RememberShufflePod to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests.
Remember the 2000s? A podcast about the dumbest decade in western history. So dumb most of it passed right through us without leaving us anything to think about, until now! We look at the most popular movies, subcultures, political movements, books, and video games of the decade and wonder what made them so popular to audiences in the 2000s, and how their legacy can still be seen today.
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