Introducing... Michael and Us
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Jacobin Radio welcomes its newest show! Michael and Us, from co-hosts Will Sloan and Luke Savage, is one of our favorite film and comedy podcasts. We're joining Will and Luke at episode 164, "Mo Money Mo Problems."
Everyone agrees that money in politics is a problem, but in MEET THE DONORS: DOES MONEY TALK? (2016), filmmaker Alexandra (daughter of Nancy) Pelosi asks: is it really? She interviews some of the biggest political donors in America to find out why they donate and what they expect for their donations, and finds out... not a whole lot. Politics - what a concept! PLUS: we discuss the state of the left in electoral politics, and definitively identify the worst Twitter feed in the world.
Support the show and get exclusive subscriber-only episodes on the Michael and Us Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone Luke here a brief production note before we get to today's show |
| 0:17.4 | beginning this week episodes of Michael and us will be cross-posted on the |
| 0:21.6 | Jacobin radio podcast stream alongside shows like the vast |
| 0:25.2 | majority, the dig, and casualties of history. |
| 0:28.6 | So if you're new to our podcast and have found us through the Jackman Feed. Welcome. |
| 0:33.0 | If you want to get a sense of what we're about, |
| 0:35.0 | the entire Michael and Us archive is available on SoundCloud, |
| 0:38.0 | Spotify, and a local podcast app near you. |
| 0:41.0 | We also have a Patreon, and two episodes a month are posted there |
| 0:44.2 | alongside extra bonus content we do periodically. If you listen and enjoy the |
| 0:48.7 | show we hope you'll consider supporting us there and lastly before we to the show, if you could follow us on Twitter at Michael and us, |
| 0:56.0 | it's all one word, and maybe even give us a five-star rating on your podcast app, you'd be doing |
| 1:01.6 | us a favor. So anyway, welcome back to Michael and us. I'm Luke |
| 1:05.8 | Savage with me as always. Will Sloane and before we get to it I just want to say |
| 1:10.4 | don't you love the people who give four star ratings on iTunes? |
| 1:14.0 | Like why are there even numbers between one and five? |
| 1:18.0 | Either you liked it or you didn't, but actually my favorite is not, I there there are those kind of rare like |
| 1:24.8 | somewhere in between ratings but my favorite ones are the really negative ones |
| 1:29.2 | actually no I take that back the perfect, the one time I looked at our reviews on my |
| 1:36.3 | podcast app was a three-star one that said, you know, listen to the podcast for a long time, you know tuned out after a while with all due respect |
| 1:46.5 | Tom Hanks has not worked to gentrify the landscape of American culture so will is extremely partisan take on Tom Hanks of You don't cross Hanks in this town. He's too powerful. Speaking of powerful things, you know, I'm a Canadian and I should know better than to follow American politics at this point. I have a country of my own that I really ought to be caring about. I shouldn't be putting hopes in a foreign country that will only disappoint me. |
| 2:18.0 | But I do follow American politics and I have to say it's been a very dispiriting time as of light. |
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