#608 - Freedom Dues

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973), a black man hired as a "token" by the CIA uses his training to start a black nationalist uprising. It couldn't be a more apt time to revisit this classic of radical American cinema. PLUS: Who's excited for the Abundance Agenda? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door" by Robert Daniels - https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ciff-2024-on-the-legacy-and-importance-of-the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door "Zaslav's Hamptons-Hollywood Vanity Project" by Matthew Belloni - https://puck.news/zaslavs-hamptons-hollywood-vanity-project/ "Leak Reveals Trump’s Full Bonkers Plan for the Kennedy Center" - https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-reveals-trumps-full-bonkers-plan-for-the-kennedy-center/ Luke's interview with Benjamin Teitelbaum - https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-putins-64721929 "Radical Academics for the Status Quo" by Liza Featherstone - https://jacobin.com/2019/12/radical-academics-judith-butler-kamala-harris-donation

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0:00.0	I'll tell you, Luke, how you know you're dealing with a top-tier, you know, elite
0:03.6	cinephile.
0:04.8	You're talking to one of the gods of movie appreciation.
0:08.0	We watched the movie, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, and then we watched the trailer
0:13.1	for the movie.
0:14.2	And the trailer is really funny.
0:15.7	It's a huge, like, exploitation movie kind of trailer.
0:19.3	And I immediately clocked, oh, that's the voice of Adolf Caesar.
0:23.2	That, I mean, that is pretty fucking hardcore.
0:25.3	You know, like, the names of voiceover people.
0:28.0	Yeah, Adolf Caesar.
0:29.3	What a name, by the way.
0:30.7	Adolf Caesar.
0:31.7	Adolf Caesar.
0:32.8	Yeah, Napoleon Gengis.
0:34.5	Yeah, he was, he did the voiceovers for pretty much every, like, 1970s exploitation film.
0:42.6	You know, with the fury of a thousand sons, it's dirty chan.
0:47.0	And I'm sure, I'm sure you've seen his greatest screen performance in a fist of fear,
0:53.3	touch of death, the Bruceploitation film.
0:55.7	But towards the end of his life in his last year or two, he was Academy Award nominated for
0:59.6	his performance in A Soldier's Story alongside Denzel Washington, and then he passed away shortly
1:04.6	after.
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