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Michael and Us: A Tasteful Thickness

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. We finally tackle the ultimate movie about '80s Wall Street excess, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000), which refracts Bret Easton Ellis through the prisms of Mary Harron and Christian Bale. We discuss its central performance, its many ambiguities, and why it is a quintessentially late-'90s statement on the '80s. PLUS: how capitalism is prolonging the pandemic, and why the drug companies are not your friends.

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0:00.0

It's one of those days where the weather is extremely

0:20.8

so horrific or at least I'm finding it. I'm finding it very difficult to be

0:24.8

focused or feel present. There's a fog over the entire city, everything is kind

0:29.5

of wet and gray although I don't think it's actually raining and I'm feeling the

0:33.8

fog and my brain too. How about you? Yeah I've been feeling very downbeat all day

0:37.8

and I think I'm very like emotionally affected by the weather just in

0:41.6

general and that combined with like I don't know the lockdown situation that

0:46.3

we're currently in here in Toronto. I don't want every single episode to start

0:49.6

with like lockdown update but you know never nevertheless it's been rainy

0:55.3

all week and you know I feel like I'm in a goddamn Roman Polanski movie with

0:59.0

just like the walls of the apartment closing in on me. You know it's something

1:03.6

that I've been doing to try to avoid looking at screens. Something that I did

1:07.7

today was spend like a lot of the morning looking at my art books. You're

1:14.1

following the advice I gave you on on our recent episode where we didn't

1:17.9

extended ref that basically devolved into like a YouTube self-help video. Yeah

1:23.0

while I was telling you that I was looking at my phone too much and you advised

1:26.9

me to just delete the Twitter app which which I did by the way and it's been

1:32.7

great. I'm so much more present just in my day-to-day life when I go for a walk

1:38.8

I'm not tempted to pull out my phone and look to see if I got a notification

1:42.9

you know and that's great but you know never the last like just being trapped

1:46.8

inside. You find yourself I find myself looking at screens all the time and I've

1:51.1

been looking at my art books today just to like look at something else just to

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