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In this episode we discuss the 1955 movie The Court Jester. You can watch it online on iTunes, Amazon, or Youtube.

Content warnings for strong language, discussions of rape, rape culture, and gaslighting.

We reference or spoil: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, Robin Hood, lower deck stories, “there was only one bed” trope, Hamlet, NSIS: The Producers, Joker (2019) and associated discourse, Tig Notaro pushing a stool, Back to the Future, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Beauty and the Beast, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Twelfth Night, John Mulaney, Dirty Pair, Kickstarter union busting, the monomyth, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Hail Caesar!, the Stefon SNL skit, and “How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying”

The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.

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