51: Respect your elders!(?)

Ageing autocrats and decrepit dictators take the wheel in this rollicking episode, where we dive into Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's 2007 installation, 'Old People's Home'. Picture this: titans of 20th-century global politics—think Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat, and Leonid Brezhnev—dozing off in wheelchairs, gripping landmines and whips, while they apathetically bump into each other. This simultaneously comedic and discomforting piece asks: Are our leaders metaphorically asleep at the wheel? What emotions do we grapple with as oppressive icons succumb to age—pity or pleasure? And perhaps, most pressing: is it really safe to ride in bumper cars with your kids? Tune in now!

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Music from Upbeat.