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Michael and Us

#525 - Freedom and Freedonia

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Maybe it's a fool's errand to look for politics in the Marx Brothers' DUCK SOUP (1933), but nevertheless, many have tried. We discuss the philosophy of the Brothers' tomfoolery, and the way that movies and literature imagine countries like Freedonia. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

Oh my

0:02.0

Oh Oh my God.

0:25.5

All right, Luke, what was that that we just watched?

0:28.0

That was Anthony Blinken, live from Keeve.

0:31.6

He's covering Neil Young.

0:33.1

A little on the nose, don't you think?

0:35.3

I mean, like if one were doing a satire of the current moment, Anthony Blinken playing Keep on Rockin

0:41.7

in the Free World.

0:42.6

It's, I mean, I even begin with this.

0:44.7

It's like conservatives are always charged for, you know, not understanding irony and subtext.

0:49.8

Liberals love to do that, and it's often fair, right?

0:52.5

You know, it's like yeah every so often you know a

0:55.1

republican or they'll get in trouble for playing born in the u s a one of their rallies or fucking this

1:00.6

song frankly but i guess liberals don't get irony either it is amazing that the slogan the phrase

1:06.3

keep on rocking the free world has sort of just entered into common parlance in a way that's completely

1:11.8

divorced from its original meaning. It feels pointless and embarrassing to like explain what Keep

1:17.0

on Rocket in the Free World is about. But I mean, it references... Satter requires clarity of purpose.

1:23.0

Have you ever thought about that? I mean, the line about a thousand points of light, like it's,

1:26.9

you know, referencing George Bush Sr. Like, it is not an earnest entree to keep on rocking in the free world,

1:33.6

which, as we all know, is so great. Well, I mean, say what you like. Guys like us, we understand

1:38.9

satire, which is why I've modeled my life after my personal role model, Archie Bunker. Can I just say as well,

1:46.1

like Anthony Blinken, I mean, like when Bill Clinton did that like shitty saxophone solo on,

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