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Michael and Us

#388 - House of Pelosi

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The 20-year filmmaking career of Alexandra Pelosi has been building up to this moment: a hagiographic documentary portrait of her mother, the outgoing U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We watched PELOSI IN THE HOUSE (2022). Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Makes Awful Documentaries Fawning Over the Establishment" by Will Sloan - https://jacobin.com/2022/12/nancy-alexandra-pelosi-documentary-filmmaking-establishment "Nancy Pelosi Delivered Little for the Left, but We Might Miss Her Anyway" by Branko Marcetic - https://jacobin.com/2022/11/nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-democratic-party-center "The Obamanauts" by Corey Robin - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanauts

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0:00.0

Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here as always. Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. And I mean,

0:21.7

am I allowed to say welcome back to, I mean, it's weird, I guess, to say that to the two of us,

0:26.1

but we are recording in person for the first time since, I don't know, the end of September,

0:30.8

something like that feels like a lifetime ago. That's right. We're at my home now. Luke's come over. We're having a bit of a double feature watching both movies

0:38.0

for the podcast this week, the first of which. Boy, have we got a doozy for you. Yeah, I mean,

0:45.2

I don't know. This one's pretty special. And I guess we kind of inadvertently teeted. I mean,

0:49.7

the movie's not special. It's terrible. But it's like the occasion is special because, I mean, should we just get right to it? I mean, this is the special. It's terrible, but it's like, the occasion is special because, I mean,

0:55.3

should we just get right to it? I mean, this is, this is the new movie by acclaimed distinguished

1:01.6

filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, who, uh, is somebody that we have, I don't know, I think we've

1:07.1

talked about her on this podcast and her work. I think we are the leading Alexandra Pelosi correspondence.

1:13.9

The only.

1:14.6

Yeah, I mean, the only.

1:15.7

I mean, we've seen the early stuff.

1:18.0

We've seen journeys with George.

1:19.3

We've seen, I can't remember the names of the other ones, but we've seen those two.

1:23.8

And this one, I mean, I don't know.

1:25.5

I feel like one of those people who, like, you know, saw Oasis at one of their like early shows or something or, you know, saw the Beatles at the Hamburg club, you know, and then got to see, you know, the assent. I feel like we've entered a new era of Alexander Pelosi. New documentary on HBO. I mean, they've all been on HBO, so who knows, maybe

1:44.4

this one will disappear into the ether like all the other ones. But I mean, just the experience

1:48.2

of watching this one was incredible for us, because the last film by Alexander Pelosi that

1:53.8

we talked about, which was only just in the last, you know, a few months, was one that, you know,

1:58.2

we knew it existed because there's like a tag on IMDB and Wikipedia for it.

2:03.1

But I'm not lying when I say that we contacted through the Toronto Public Library every public

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