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The Antifada

BONUS - All About Us w/ Leslie Lee III

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Massive spoiler alert on this one, baby! @leslieleeiii of your favorite leftist culture podcast @strugglesesh joins the crew (in studio!) to talk about Jordan Peele's sophomore offering, the blockbuster social-critique/horror film 'Us'.

Sean, Jamie and Andy offer their weird opinions on the deeper meaning of the film... then Leslie, as always, schools everyone with his vast cinematic knowledge. Fun and talking shit on Breitbart happens along the way!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So let's just start out with a little bit of bright Bart's take okay from the

0:05.8

graves yes intense warning about the horrors of socialism. Okay.

0:14.0

Is it content warning?

0:15.0

Content warning.

0:16.0

If you are triggered by socialism, I don't know why you're listening to this show.

0:21.0

Over-explaining actually isn't altogether a bad thing for those of us eager to see a mainstream film that is not only unreservedly pro-American, but fiercely anti-socialist.

0:32.0

So, okay.

0:35.0

U-B-B-B-B-B-Bla, blah, blah, blah, he takes his time introducing us to the Wilson's,

0:40.0

a ridiculously appealing upper-middle-class nuclear family enjoying the splendors that come from working hard in America

0:46.7

Nice car summer home and dad just bought himself a boat which is itself a metaphor for the wonders of capitalism.

0:53.6

And not as nice as the Heidaker family.

0:55.8

Yes. Sure that boat's going to require some work, some elbow grease, some investment.

1:00.0

That's because if you're an honest man, nothing worth having comes easy.

1:04.4

And once that boat is Cherry, the payoff will be how it brings this family even closer together.

1:11.6

And this is a normal family a loving family this isn't

1:15.4

Hollywood's perverted view of family the kids listen to the parents

1:20.3

the parents have earned that moral authority.

1:24.0

I don't think he saw the movie.

1:27.0

The old fish dad.

1:28.0

Mom and dad are in love.

1:30.0

There's no dysfunction, no hidden underbelly. Um, I clearly he doesn't ever think anything is ever going on below the surface.

1:39.0

Best of all, the fact that the Wilson's are black has nothing to do with anything.

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