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I Love Boosters

June 04, 2026 • Tickets Secured Pod • Episode 15

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We love I Love Boosters! Charlene and Jackie celebrate all things Boots and Boosters, including but not limited to: jaunty accordion music by a woman from Connecticut, silly jokes, hardcore leftist politics, fun outfits, dunking on Demi Moore, soul sucking demons, and more!

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

2:03 There are in fact no lizard people in Sorry to Bother You, just horse people.

5:30 Demi Moore made news when she got paid $12.5 Million for Striptease in 1996.

6:51 Y’all Davos: With Many Changes, Did SXSW 2026 Flourish or Flop?

9:02 Boots Riley on Cannes: “They Just Don’t Like My Stuff”

11:00 Boots Riley is in the replies

12:46 Emily Nussbaum’s New Yorker profile of Boots Riley

14:27 HI HEY HO - The Tune Yards Theme for I Love Boosters

16:48 I Love Boosters Reviewed in The New Yorker, which opens comparing the film to DWP2.

25:09 Fustilarian: An obsolete victorian insult meaning ‘a low fellow, a stinkard, a scoundrel’

27:00 Boots Riley discussing the relationship between his film and Dialectical Materialism

33:28 The building that inspired Demi Moore’s tilted floor is inspired by the Millennium Tower which is not in Oakland but nearby San Francisco

38:55 How Costume Designer Shirley Kurata built a surreal fashion playground for I Love Boosters

42:30 “Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed”

49:30 Marc Jacobs' incendiary Grunge Collection

51:30 “Kurata made a point to work with up-and-coming brands, BIPOC designers like Sergio Hudson, Anna Sui, and Leeann Huang, as well as SCAD fashion students for the movie’s finale runway show”

58:22 Verity looks fucking nuts

59:35 Am I Ok? And Not Okay: The same movie?

1:02:12 Shooting a monster while riding a horse through the woods: Hope (2026)

1:06:43 Just in case you too want to brush up on Dialectical Materialism

1:11:40 🎼 Shoplifters of the world 🎼 Unite and take over 🎼

1:12:01 Is Shoplifting Ethical? Hassan Piker & Jia Tolentino weigh in

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