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Eric Trommater and Sila Blume are joined by a special guest as they try and unpack Luis Buñuel's 1930 Surrealist masterpiece ""L'Âge d'or, (The Golden Age)."

Dr. Ernesto "Todd" Mireles is an award-winning author, filmmaker, educator, and a lifelong activist and organizer in the Xicano movement. Most recently, he was a faculty member in Ethnic Studies at Northern Arizona University and holds the position of National Secretary of the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida.

He begins his assessment with a quote from Roland Barthes' 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author:"

"All writing is a critique of reality." This sends the episode spiraling into, yet another, debate on Post-Structuralism with Dr. Mireles taking a pro stance and Eric and Sila against. Eric, however, gives himself the final word (because it's his show).

The rest of the episode is a scene by scene unpacking of Buñuel's film and what, if anything, these segments "mean."

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