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184b. It’s Just A Town. [Assignment: Venezuela, from the MST3K CD-ROM.]
Description
Assignment: Venezuela sends Chris and Charlotte off to discuss economic colonialism, oil extraction, Latin American history, lying husbands, and CD-ROMs.
Show Notes.
Assignment: Venezuela (Jack Tobin, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. UnMSTed.
Our episode on The Beast of Yucca Flats, with the short: Progress Island, U.S.A.
The surprisingly robust Wikipedia article on Assignment: Venezuela, with lots of MST3K content.
Eduardo Galeano: The Memory of Fire trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind — as well as The Book of Embraces.
Some documents about the integration of Levittown, PA.
The Wikipedia article on Robert Moses has a subsection on racism which details the recent arguments that have been made about the Jones Beach story.
Don’t Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde, 2022). (Charlotte notes that the movie gets pretty dark.)
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 CD-ROM.
The Voyager Company, and a list of the CD-ROMs they released (or planned to release).
Laurie Anderson recently had a chance to revisit The Puppet Motel.
Someone uploaded a playthrough (if you want to call it that) of The Puppet Motel.
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