#becames about the fear ofthe Other that can ressonate with a lot of themes specially from a conservative conspiracy theorist angle
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"Even your friendly neighboorhood gas man [creepy voice] is a homossexual." Cecil Baldwin is the funniest man alive idc.
And he was making such a good point as well (about the relation between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Lavender Scare).
#this episode made me actually want to listen to invasion of the body snatchers#i saw so much derivative things that i had no energy to see the og red scare movie#but all the points about how it wasn't just about the red scare#the very stranger/not them vibes#abd also i always knew tgdlm was inspired by it but know i want to see all the ways the show subverts it#specially when jeffrey noticed one of the subvertions as a possibility/hc just by seing the movie#random number generator horror podcast n 9#invasion of the body snatchers#cecil baldwin#jeffrey cranor#btw Cecil's abd Jeffrey's point was that by not stating what the virus intencion was - because it would be comunist propaganda - the movie+#becames about the fear ofthe Other that can ressonate with a lot of themes specially from a conservative conspiracy theorist angle#and that by doing that the movie also relates to the other moral panics of the era namely the lavander scare#and cecil's relation of this movie as both a fan but also as a queer man#is a really good episode
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