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My good friend Natalia Castro makes her podcast debut. Literally: as in this is the first podcast she's ever participated in. And it is an honor to have here here, discussing, "The Crepes of Wrath," which originally aired on April 15, 1990.
The episode, on the surface, is about Bart participating in an exchange program and being sent to France, where he is forced into slave labor. Meanwhile, his counterpart back home turns out to be an Albanian spy. Now, all of that - in and of itself - is the rich sort of plotting you'd normally expect a feature-length film to have. But, beyond that, this thing has layers, man!
It also bears mentioning that Natalia herself participated in a student exchange program while in high school.
So there's A LOT to discuss.
We discuss the episode in all its rich details, we uncover some of its sociopolitical layers... And we even make time to discuss the particulars of Colombia's robust TV industry.
It's all that, and a bag of corn chips.
Dig in!
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And, of...
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