Starring wrestling superstar “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and the amazing veteran David Keith, we watch John Carpenter’s master commentary on capitalism: 1988’s THEY LIVE. Released the Friday before the federal election, THEY LIVE is an overt criticism of yuppies mixed with an undercurrent on race, politics, and the future of America. Join me as we uncover not only how THEY LIVE was relevant in 1988, but how it is still relevant just last week as we woke up and asked ourselves: “What’s Wrong, Baby?” The Super 70 Podcast is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, and my website at www.thatdylandavis.com. All music on The Super 70 Podcast is provided by Rozalind MacPhail and Joshua Cunningham whom you can also find on SoundCloud. Works Cited for this episode are: Jonathan Lethem’s They Live (2010), D. Harlan Wilson’s They Live (2015) and Slavoj Žižek’s They Live and Violence (2008).
