Silence of the Lambs (1991)

In today's show, we talk about psychopathic murderers, both fictional and real. Our conversational hit list includes (but is not limited to) Hannibal Lecter, Buffalo Bill, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and George W. Bush. We also talk about Jodi Foster's marble-mouthed West Virginia accent and Anthony Hopkins' ability to win us over even when he's laying it on extra thick. What else? There's a discussion about how tourism is nothing to get all arrogant about and how the good old CIA were homophobic af back in the 90s. Has that changed? I sure hope so. Listen, you've had enough of this episode description and so have I. Why don't you grab yourself gigantic bowl of fava beans and a blood red glass of chianti and have a nice giggle to this booyah right here. It's a good one, mofo. 

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Rundown

(:30) Joe and Rob don’t know about fancy people food like caviar and chianti, plus Rob probably would pee his pants on purpose in kindergarten because that’s how he is; (3:12) remember when W was all we had to worry about & that was plenty but now people romanticize him; (4:55) politics is the worst and it’s stupid and soulless; (5:39) Silence of the Lambs and how it was a hit and won awards; (6:15) the news of February 1991 — Schwarzkopf and the moon; (8:16) Joe and Rob haven’t travelled much and people judge them some times, but that’s a bunch of garbage; (14:05) Joe pops a cough drop in his mouth while he’s on mic recording an audio program; (14:20) Jim Bakker’s big old sentence for fraud or whatever is overturned; (15:25) government agencies are so bigoted that they get anti-bigotry measures dropped by UVA; (17:03) pop culture of February 1991 — C+C Music Factory, Whitney — stop everything: Vanilla Ice is handsome and his movie is awesome; (22:10) some movies from back then, including NeverEnding Story II and Sleeping with the Enemy, which becomes a joyful celebration of Jennifer Lopez’s Enough because we have a divine animal right to love that movie; (27:14) Dahmer’s doing Dahmer things & My Friend Dahmer was pretty good; (27:57) we’re all interested in serial killers because they’re scary and get away with it for a while and Rob thinks at least one of them was a genius, apparently; (33:39) serial killers just hanging around not killing serially but probably eyeing cashiers; (38:29) GAME TIME: synopsis; (39:31) key scenes — Clarice & Lecter meet cute; Rob calling Manhunter Mind Hunter; Joe finds out that Buffalo Bill is a Silence of the Lambs thing; (45:07) halftime; (47:02) Rob calling Ted Levine Ted Devine for goodness sake; (47:58) that awesome tracking shot through Buffalo Bill’s basement lair; (50:41) that amazing last scene with the nightvision, with Rob not knowing Brooke Smith’s name; (54:04) Buffalo Bill and the mystery of Q Lazarus; (56:32) quick bit about the mystery of Bambi Woods; (58:16) Lecter’s escape from that weird glass cage thing — what?; (59:14) how the editing of Silence of the Lambs helps make the movie so much fun; (1:02:22) Rob thought the sequel sucked; (1:03:14) what would a conversation about Silence of the Lambs be without some Joe Dirt talk?