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Michael and Us

#384 - Dust Bowl Ballads

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The quintessential American folk troubadour and a beloved national icon, Woody Guthrie was also a committed lefty for whom art and politics were intertwined. We discuss his life and legacy via Hal Ashby's biopic BOUND FOR GLORY (1976), which takes a broad look at Guthrie and during the Great Depression. PLUS: How Joe Biden crushed a railroad workers' strike. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

Well, I'm going to tell you fascists, you may be surprised, people in this world are getting organized.

0:08.8

You're bound to lose.

0:10.3

You fascist found to lose.

0:13.1

So I recently watched the little-known Werner Herzog film, or I should say lesser-known, Werner-Hurtsug film Wings of Hope.

0:20.3

Have you seen that one? You know,

0:21.6

would you believe I have not? That is one of, that is one of the few that I have not seen.

0:26.6

So I'm sorry, I won't have much to contribute. Tell me what it is. You haven't seen this one,

0:32.2

but you've seen like the, have you watched like the Kuwait one where there's, like, no actual voiceover, and it's just kind of like an art film?

0:38.8

Yeah, that's beautiful.

0:39.7

Lessons of Darkness.

0:41.0

I mean, there is some voiceover at the start because he sort of depoliticizes it.

0:46.1

Well, he doesn't depoliticize it, but he changes the politics of it by saying, this is footage from an unknown planet.

0:53.0

And in fact, when that film came out, Lessons of Darkness, many criticized him for aestheticizing the horrors,

1:00.0

which I don't think time has been kind of that judgment.

1:03.0

But anyway, go ahead.

1:05.0

Well, you know, I have to say I actually never got through that one, and I think it was because,

1:10.0

and it's probably the only Werner Herzog film I've ever turned off. I and I think it was because I think it's probably the

1:10.9

only Werner Herzog film I've ever turned off. I mean, mainly it was just I wasn't in the mood

1:15.6

to watch like a fairly sort of plotting art film. But I wasn't in the mood to watch it that night.

1:23.6

What I what can I say? But I do think I did have a little bit of that feeling that he was unhelpfully

1:28.6

depoliticizing a bit. So maybe we can watch that sometime and have another like crossfire style

1:33.8

episode like we did with our recent take on Adam McKay's vice, which, you know, people seem to like

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