This week the Antagonist Podcast discusses the Netflix hit Beef and the controversy over Chris Pratt’s accent in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Join The Antagonist Managing Editor Laura J. Burns with writers Orly Minazad, Dustin Waters, and John Brown Spiers as they dazzle you with pop culture knowledge.
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0:12 — Welcome to the show.
3:08 — Philadelphia and Pennsylvania are not the same place but are sort of in the same place.
7:53 — Shoutout to Charles Martinet, the real voice of Mario!
12:14 — The final trailer for the final season of Succession lied to us all.
18:53 — Tennessee’s state government expelled Black members but not a white one.
25:21 — The Super Mario Bros. Movie
29:43 — The 1993 Mario movie was not good, but it sounds like it was fun to make.
39:40 — Our Italian-speaking writer Allyson Arnone weighs in on Chris Pratt as Mario.
43:22 — Beef on Netflix.
49:05 — Amy’s gun scene in the Beef pilot was inspired by The Sopranos.
53:19 — The overwhelming pressure of living in the modern world.
1:00:44 — Let’s play the game “Beef episode title or extreme metal song?”
