Episode 15: I Love Boosters
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. I Love Boosters premiered at SXSW.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:
2:03 There are in fact no lizard people in Sorry to Bother You, just horse people.
5:30 $20 Million is an exaggeration, 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 an Dialectical Materialism
33:28 The building that inspired Demi Moore’s tilted floor is inspired by the Millenium 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
Full List of Movies, TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this episode:
Sorry to Bother You
Girls
Baghead
Creep
Joy Ride
Norma Rae
Proof
Top Gun: Maverick
The Substance
Barbie
Mid 90s
How to Make a Killing
Emily the Criminal
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Marc by Sofia
Is God Is
Gladiator II
Anora
Verity
One Night Only
50 Shades of Grey
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
The State
Wet Hot American Summer
Suspiria
Madame Web
Mother May
Are You Ok
Not Okay
Splitsville
The Green Knight
A Ghost Story
The Christophers
Hope
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
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