Episode 226: "The Producers 1967" with Michael Dubois - The Clean Portion

When ⁠CatBusRuss⁠ is posting a #RewindWednesday episode of "⁠I Dig Crazy Flicks with CatBusRuss⁠", if the conversation was two parts, he prefers to glue it back together as one long podcast. But who would deny this feed having two weeks to celebrate the film that made ⁠Mel Brooks⁠ the cinema icon that he is today? Especially not even a week removed from his 99th birthday.

This was an interesting conversation with Michael Dubois, a cinephile whose first exposure to "The Producers" franchise was the 2005 adaptation of the Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. That may have stayed that way except for he is a huge ⁠Gene Wilder⁠ fan. Our host and guest were originally planning a trilogy of podcasts about the actor's films. Check out the #RewindWednesday about "⁠Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory⁠".

Was Gene Wilder enough to put "⁠The Producers⁠" ahead of its 21st century take in Michael's eyes? Listen to find that out and enjoy the anti-fascist politics the film inspired the two podcasters to converse about.

Full Disclosure: The reason this will remain a two part podcast is that when ⁠CatBusRuss⁠ was originally editing the chat, the first half's language was fairly clean. As the conversation continued, and as Russ was further indulging in "podcast punch", the obscenities are far more frequent in part two. If your kids love the first hour and a half, you have been warned about what is to come next week.