#189 - JOHN RAMBO INNOCENT!!! (w/ Micah Uetricht)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah Uetricht to parse the ambiguous politics of FIRST BLOOD (1982), where Sylvester Stallone is just as frazzled by right-wing cops as he is by left-wing protestors. We also situate the film among other Vietnam War movies, and compare the Vietnam canon to Iraq War cinema. PLUS: Luke has been reading Obama's autobiography and has some thoughts. Check out Micah's podcast The Vast Majority - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vast-majority/id1462787412 Check out Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, by Micah and Meagan Day - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3167-bigger-than-bernie

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0:00.0	It's a long roll and it's hard as hell.
0:08.0	Tell me what do you do to survive?
0:15.0	When they drop first blood, that's just the start of it
0:23.6	Day and night
0:25.6	You've got a fight
0:27.6	To keep alive
0:30.6	Welcome back to another episode of Mike Linus
0:34.6	As always, I'm Luke Savage.
0:36.6	With me is Will Sloan.
0:38.6	And joining us today all the way from Chicago, Illinois, home of Barack Obama, friend of the
0:44.3	show, deep dish pizza, lots of other cool stuff.
0:48.0	Siskel and Ebert.
0:50.4	We're joined by my colleague and comrade and friend, Jacobin managing editor, host of the vast majority podcast, author with Megan Day of Bigger Than Bernie.
0:59.9	Micah, you truck.
1:00.7	Micah, thanks for joining us.
1:02.1	Thank you very much for having me.
1:03.3	Glad to be here.
1:04.1	So we're going to talk about the movie Rambo First Blood today.
1:07.8	But for the past two days, I've been knee-deep in something very Chicago-themed. Well,
1:13.3	not really, but kind of Chicago rooted, which is Barack Obama's book. Ah, yes, my kind of town,
1:19.3	Chicago, you know? I picked it up, picked it up at my local indigo curbside recently. And I already
1:26.7	said this on our recent bonus episode but
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