The Episode About Cowboys

Grab your hat and saddle your hoss, it’s time to talk cowboys. Dave and Neil discuss cowboy songs, cowboy movies, cowboy costumes, cowboys on the moon, and our general confusion about what a cowboy is. Does The Joker by Steve Miller Band qualify as a cowboy song? Is there a right reason to open a brothel? Who are the modern cowboys? Find out that and more this week on Planet of the Meerkats.

The Mystique of the Cowboy

Grab your hat and saddle your hoss, it’s time to talk cowboys. Dave and Neil discuss cowboy songs, cowboy movies, cowboy costumes, cowboys on the moon, and our general confusion about what a cowboy is. Does The Joker by Steve Miller Band qualify as a cowboy song? Is there a right reason to open a brothel? Who are the modern cowboys? Find out that and more this week on Planet of the Meerkats.

Further Reading

Watch Cowboy Bebop on The Anime Network

Summary of Dead Man via the Criterion Channel

Discussion of The Searchers by Roger Ebert

Discussion of Shane by Roger Ebert

The horror story Dave mentioned set in the Salton Sea: how the light gets in by Michael Paul Gonzalez (part of the Lost Signals story collection)

Our Cowboy playlist, with all the highs and lows.

  Shane!!!!