Michael and Us: A "You've Got Mail" Symposium (w/ Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic)
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin Magazine's Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic for a roundtable discussion of Nora Ephron's YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998), starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. We discover that this parable for gentrification may be the key to all of politics and culture in the 1990s. PLUS: thoughts on the Harris-Pence VP debate and the famous fly.
"Want to Know What a Return to 'Normal' Will Look Like? Stare Into Mike Pence's Dead Eyes" by Branko Marcetic - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/mike-pence-vp-vice-presidential-debate-trump
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| 0:00.0 | There we can get some sites and sites of letters. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Michael and us. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Will Sloane here as always with. |
| 0:10.0 | Luke Savage, hey everyone. |
| 0:12.0 | And there are some topics that are just too great, some topics that are too important, too vital, |
| 0:17.1 | to be encompassed merely by Luke and myself. |
| 0:19.8 | This week's episode will address one such topic. The 1998 Nora Ephron comedy You've Got |
| 0:26.9 | Mail starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. What is it? What does it mean for our world |
| 0:31.8 | today? We are joined by two guests who will help illuminate |
| 0:36.0 | the situation. You know them both from Jacobin magazine. We have Megan Day. |
| 0:41.5 | Hi, glad to be here. And returning champion Branko Markeech. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, good to be back. |
| 0:48.0 | Before we get to the movie, there is of course much happening in the wild world of politics. We are coming a few days off of a widely seen |
| 0:56.4 | vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. Branko has written a piece for Jacobin about the debate, |
| 1:05.2 | a short piece that was published today. |
| 1:07.1 | Bronco, what did you think of the debate? |
| 1:09.5 | You liked it, right? |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. I like pretty much everyone in the entire world it seems like thought it was deathly boring. People talked about how this was kind of a throwback debate and it was in the sense of it felt like after Trump won in 2016 |
| 1:27.0 | there was a great break from the status quo that even though Trump was a new |
| 1:31.3 | and scarier thing that we'd seen, there was at least something different, |
| 1:36.3 | you know, with the rise of Trump and Insandism and various socialist politicians. |
| 1:41.1 | And this felt like it was a reset. |
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