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    Pop This! Podcast Episode 283: Moulin Rouge! with Carlos Hernandez Fisher

    enMay 26, 2021
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    About this Episode

    Summary:
     
    "Musical true crime." This week, pop culture omnivore Carlos Hernandez Fisher joins us to talk about a movie he saw five times in theatres: Moulin Rouge! Also discussed: Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldMare of Easttown, and our ongoing efforts to reintegrate into society. 
     
     
    Show notes:

    Ranking the Moulin Rouge! songs, 20 years later (Vulture)

    Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir Free Dance at Winter Olympics (YouTube)

    Feature film, released between 2001-01-01 and 2001-12-31 (IMDb)

    Carlos on Instagram

     

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    "Good Times" by Podington Bear
    From Free Music Archive 
    CC BY 3.0
     
    Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

    Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst
    Courtesy of Free Music Archive

     

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