#558 - From Jysk with Love w/ Luke Lebrun

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Is it ethical for a journalist to also act as a spy for a foreign government? We consider the far-fetched claims of one of Canada's worst journalists, Adam Zivo. PLUS: In this very special episode, we catch up on some news items of Canadian interest, including the declining polling for Justin Trudeau's liberals, and the rising number of far-right Canadian influencers. Follow us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’" by Luke Lebrun - https://pressprogress.ca/this-national-post-columnist-says-he-spied-for-a-foreign-intelligence-agency-experts-call-his-behaviour-unethical-and-absurd/ "I cover the far right for a living. This is why I wasn’t surprised to find Canadians embedded in an alleged Russian propaganda scheme" by Luke Lebrun - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/i-cover-the-far-right-for-a-living-this-is-why-i-wasnt-surprised-to/article_56042920-6c7c-11ef-aa82-9302cac8f9d3.html "It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election" by Luke Savage - https://jacobin.com/2023/01/hillary-clinton-russian-bots-2016-presidential-election-trump "In Toronto's Weirdest Cinema, a Portrait of the Artist I'd Never Become" by Adam Zivo - https://quillette.com/2022/01/18/in-torontos-weirdest-cinema-a-portrait-of-the-artist-id-never-become/ Follow Luke Lebrun - https://x.com/_llebrun

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0:00.0	Hello, gang, your old friend Will here. What follows is a special episode of the Michael
0:05.2	and Us podcast where Luke and I catch up on some Canadian news with our good friend,
0:10.8	the journalist Luke Lebrun. But because my co-host will give me several lashings and send me to bed
0:17.0	without supper if I don't remind you we have a Patreon, I'll just say, at patreon.com slash Michael and Us in a couple of days, we'll be covering some
0:26.2	items of international interest, including the recent Harris-Trump presidential debate,
0:31.7	as well as the upcoming David Cronenberg movie The Shrouds, which we just saw at the Toronto
0:36.8	Film Festival.
0:38.2	Remember, folks, that's patreon.com slash michael and us.
0:42.7	Also, if you're already following us on Patreon and are in fact hearing this on Patreon, well, thank you.
0:49.9	Please consider yourself excused from listening to this commercial.
0:52.9	Now, on with the show.
1:10.2	So am I correct in reading this, and I will confess that I just skimmed it very quickly before this recording, that Adam Zivo is writing a tribute to an independent cinema theater run by a guy who was busted for child porn?
1:28.8	Oh, buddy.
1:30.4	We know all about this.
1:32.8	Will, take it away.
1:34.3	Why don't you?
1:35.2	Yeah, I mean, if you're not familiar with Reg Hart, he's kind of a folk hero.
1:40.7	Is that the right term in the city of Toronto?
1:43.4	The long story short is he's a guy
1:45.8	who runs a movie theater out of his living room on Bathurst Street. And he's run it out of
1:50.8	his living room for 30 years. Before that, he showed his little movies in other venues as well.
1:56.3	And he's a local eccentric. And the city has tried to shut him down many times, and he's figured
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