#257 - Rank Punditry

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With an election looming in Canada, we decided to look back on a time when Justin Trudeau's father received his punishment at the hands of the Canadian media. The National Film Board of Canada documentary HISTORY ON THE RUN: THE MEDIA AND THE '79 ELECTION (1979) chronicles the unusual media landscape that led to a nine-month interruption in Pierre Trudeau's long tenure as Prime Minister. We discuss how media shapes and responds to election narratives, how things have changed since 1979, and the unusual Trudeau/Joe Clark/Ed Broadbent election. PLUS: rank punditry about Justin Trudeau's chances.

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0:00.0	take off to the great white north take up it's a beauty way to go take up to the great night of us i'm will
0:11.7	sloane here as always with luke savage welcome back everyone uh sorry we were away last week but i think
0:17.7	we've been doing the podcast pretty much uninterrupted for going on five years,
0:22.2	something like that. And what can I say? Sometimes we need a little bit of a break. But listen,
0:26.4	patrons, we didn't cheat you out of any content. You got your episode. So, oh, by the way,
0:31.3	check out the Michael and Us Patreon. Patreon.com slash Michael and Us. Lots of great content there.
0:37.0	We had recent episodes on David Lynch's
0:39.3	Lost Highway. What else have we had? You can hear my interview with Dan Kaufman. He's writing you might
0:44.7	have seen in The New York Times, The New Yorker. I talked to him about Scott Walker's legacy in the
0:49.9	state of Wisconsin and how it in many ways kind of presaged what happened with Donald Trump.
0:54.2	One extra episode a week on there, but also lots of bonus content like that.
0:57.6	Anyway, this week, we got a Canada episode for you.
1:00.9	The reason for this is pretty straightforward.
1:02.8	I don't think, you know, most of our American listeners and listeners further afield will be
1:06.7	aware of this.
1:07.8	Truthfully, plenty of our Canadian listeners.
1:10.4	Plenty of people in Canada may not know
1:12.1	this, but we're probably days away from a federal election call here. If it hasn't happened by the
1:17.6	time you hear this, even. Yeah, Sunday is the rumor, if not this Sunday, next Sunday. I was writing
1:23.9	about this today, so I was kind of keen to discuss it. And there's a documentary, which we're going to be talking about later, that I've wanted to discuss for a while. It's kind of an interesting documentary about media coverage of the 1979 Canadian federal election. But off the top, I did want to talk a little bit about kind of the current state of playing Canadian politics. I mean, Will, have you been following it at all?
1:48.8	Are you one of the prospective listeners who I just referred to? No, I've been following it sort of ambiently. I know I know who the guys are. I know which parties are going to be kind of the big three.
1:57.8	I know that Justin Trudeau is pulling far ahead of his nearest rival, Aaron O'Toole, of the Conservative Party.
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