Special Episode 2: Primary Colors
On the 1998 film Primary Colors, about a lightly fictional Bill and Hillary Clinton.
In Special Episode #2, “Primary Colors,” Elizabeth and Flourish discuss Primary Colors, the movie (starring John Travolta and Emma Thompson) based on the book (by an anonymous author later revealed to be Joe Klein, journalist at Newsweek). The film follows the 1992 Democratic primary campaign of “Jack Stanton,” a character loosely (uh, or heavily) based on Bill Clinton, and it serves as a jumping off point for discussion of why both Elizabeth and Flourish really, fundamentally like Hillary Clinton—and find her life and story both depressing and inspiring.
Show Notes
[00:00:00] As always, our intro music is “Awel” by stefsax, used under a CC-BY 3.0 license.
Here, have a gif of Hillary looking unimpressed. We imagine she practices this look on Bill a lot.
[00:13:56] The first musical interlude is “Unexpected Hoedown in Bagging Area” by Doctor Turtle, used under a CC-BY license.
[00:18:24]
[00:29:55] Our second musical interlude is “It Looks Like The Future, But It Feels Like The Past” by Doctor Turtle, used under a CC-BY license.
[00:34:20] “The Most Famous Person You Don’t Know: A Cultural History of Hillary Clinton” by Briana Fasone.
[00:40:22] There is NO GIF ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET of Kathy Bates saying “I AM A GAY LESBIAN WOMAN” and this is shocking we are not OK.
[00:41:54] Our outro music is “Hail to the Chief” played by the Air Force Concert Band, which is in the public domain!
