Episode 136 - Michael Bay’s Three 6 Mafia

Michael Bay put out a new film towards the end of last year, the confusingly titled Netflix original 6 Underground. Yair is a scholar of Bay's work, having written his dissertation on the director's status as a "vulgar auteur", and joins Jack to talk about the film in all its relentless, regime-changing glory. Yes, Bay's getting deep into what Eddie Marsan would call "promoting democracy in other countries" in this latest picture, and we're here with the official left-wing critique. In the back half, the boys revisit some films previously covered on the show, at which time Yair hadn't yet seen them: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970), Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019) and Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972). Music is provided by Crazy Moose - who contributed a short instrumental track, a new song called Monkeys At The Typewriters, and a cover of the Drive-by Truckers' Uncle Frank - and, of course, Three 6 Mafia.