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This Wreckage

BONUS PREVIEW: Hard Hat Riot and DSA Hair w/ Virgil Texas

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Virgil and the Antifada crew continue their discussion of this dark and lascivious tale, placing it in historical context vis-a-vis the rise of right-wing populism, the Hard Hat Riot of 1970 and a disturbingly similar murder committed after the film was shot but before it was released. Plus: racial dynamics, modern day analogs and a bonus-to-the-bonus review of the New York City Press Corp's abortive attempt at satirizing the youth of today.

For the full episode support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada

Music: Dean Michaels - Hey Joe

Transcript

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0:00.0

Why the devil did we go to the door?

0:04.0

I did four.

0:06.0

What the hell for?

0:08.0

Uh, that's a wrap on the movie Jow.

0:11.0

Yeah, we could be at a bonus, sure.

0:14.0

I'm gonna do a little history.

0:17.0

So a very eerily similar crime happened in real life after Joe was filmed but before it was released.

0:28.4

So listen to this shit, all right.

0:31.5

Reading from Wikipedia.

0:34.0

So 10 weeks before Joe was released in the United States, a real life mass murder with similarities

0:40.4

to the movie's climactic scenes occurred in Detroit, Michigan, you know, where the auto industry was rapidly declining.

0:48.0

On May 7th, 1970, a railroad worker named Arville Douglas Garland entered a university residence and killed his daughter, her boyfriend, and two other students.

0:59.0

And during pretrial deliberations, Judge Joseph Gillis saw Joe and strongly advised both the prosecution and defense teams to do the same.

1:08.0

He then carefully screened each member of the jury pool and excluded any who had seen the movie.

1:14.0

He also forbade any seated juror from watching the movie or discussing it with anyone who

1:18.7

had seen it.

1:20.3

Although he brought with him multiple weapons and extra ammunition, Garland, the killer, received a light sentence.

1:27.5

Pardon me.

1:28.5

Oh, before, uh, you can click on the, can find it out in a second

1:33.0

I don't like two years or something like that pretty light sentence for murdering

1:37.0

his daughter her boyfriend and two other students he was sentenced to five

1:41.3

orgies. Yeah, so before and after sentencing, he received hundreds of letters from parents across the country who expressed sympathy with him.

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