#242 - The Dirty Trickster

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The archetype of the shadowy, Machiavellian political strategist is potent in the popular imagination, and no strategist has leaned into this potency harder than Roger Stone. We look back at one of Trumpworld's wackier characters by watching the Netflix documentary GET ME ROGER STONE (2017) and discuss how he is both a more and less significant figure than he seems. PLUS: Roger Stone's fashion blog!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Before you begin today's show, just a quick reminder that Michael and Us has a lot more content available at patreon.com slash Michael and Us. We post an extra episode there every week, along with bonus content, including, though not limited, to interviews that I do in my day job, a recent highlight
0:21.6	being my conversation with the author and science fiction writer Corey Docterow with whom I
0:26.4	discussed Bill Gates. Recent Patreon episodes include an episode on Gates, one about the Silicon
0:31.7	Valley boondoggle we work with special guest Wendy Lou, and a crossover episode with Josh
0:36.8	Olson and Dave Anthony of the West Wing Thing podcast, to name just a few.
0:40.9	So if you enjoy the free episodes and want to hear more, please consider supporting the show at patreon.com slash Michael and us.
0:47.2	We're very grateful to be able to partner with Jacobin Radio, and please don't miss other great podcasts on the Jacobin Network podcasts like The Vast
0:54.8	Majority with Micah Eutrecht, The Dig with Dan Denver, and a World to Win with Grace Blakely.
1:00.0	Now without further ado, on with this week's free episode of Mike Linus.
1:04.5	Over there, over there, send the word, send the word over there.
1:11.6	That the yanks are coming, the yanks are coming.
1:16.6	The drums rum-tumming everywhere.
1:19.6	Well, welcome the Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
1:23.6	Luke Savage, hey everyone.
1:25.6	I think both of us have had a bit of a long day, haven't we?
1:28.6	But, you know, the show must go on. When I smell the grease paint, when I see the limelight,
1:33.6	when I hear the roar or the audience, what can I say? I just start dancing. I'm in my element.
1:40.6	Yeah, and we're trying to have a kind of back to basics week this week. We got a political
1:45.5	documentary for this episode that featured some themes that are very familiar to this podcast.
1:50.9	We also hope to do a CNN film called President in Waiting, which based on the trailer,
1:56.9	looks like a very credulous portrait of the office of the vice presidency. Believe it or not, we've been completely unable to find this film.
2:03.9	This usually happens with like homemade documentaries about Howard Dean that we discover and want to cover.
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