293 – TEASER – Making Fun of Atlas Shrugged: The Movie Pt 1

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This is the first episode in a new Patreon series on the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy. Join us as we recount and critique the cinematic adaptation of the first third of Ayn...

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the rational self-interest podcast where people can freely
0:04.8	make decisions about their own lives without those meddling bureaucrats in Washington trying
0:09.9	to hold them down.
0:11.1	The looters and the mooters, folks, the looters and the mooters.
0:16.1	My name's Aaron.
0:17.4	This is Sean.
0:18.4	Hello.
0:18.5	And we are reviewing today on the podcast.
0:23.9	A masterwork.
0:24.8	An epic film.
0:26.7	Tour de force.
0:27.9	What did I tell you after I watched this movie?
0:30.3	Tour de force.
0:31.3	What me exactly.
0:32.1	Tour de force.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:34.4	Our uncensored first response is to watching the 2011 adaptation of the first third of the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
0:43.5	When you're turning a beloved libertarian novel into a movie, and especially one that's this long, it's a very, very long book, one of the longest fiction books published, and one that's had huge
0:55.6	cultural resonance in the libertarian community. Many credit it with being the foundation of
1:00.4	their philosophy of how they live their lives in the world. When you're making a movie
1:04.9	based on something that big, yeah, you've got to split it up. So this is only part of the story
1:10.0	of our heroic business people standing up against
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