*UNLOCKED* The Special Psychotic Relationship feat. Alice Caldwell-Kelly

This week, Nate speaks with Alice Caldwell-Kelly (@AliceAvizandum) from the podcasts Trashfuture, Well There's Your Problem, and Kill James Bond, about the 2009 Armando Ianucci film IN THE LOOP, in which the British TV series 'The Thick of It' visits the topic of the Iraq War and James Gandolfini plays a grumpy American Lieutenant General. Why are politicians in both countries such deranged freaks? What are stereotypes of British general officers? All this and more, this week.
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[@danesorensen1775]

If they make "American Sniper but British" it needs to be set in Northern Ireland.

[@darrens3]

That's a big oof.

[@eggbaron3968]

Great ep! Your read on Gandolfini's turnaround at the end is not what I got out of it, personally--I understood it as a crack at the sort of "anti-war but I Support the Troops(TM)" mentality that was also super-pervasive in America at the time. Maybe I read too much into it, though.

[@billymalamon]

General Ray Odierno was command of the 4th infantry division out of FOB Iron Horse.

[@billymalamon]

Great show, BTW. WTYP led me here.

[@DanBalan1]

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