Michael and Us: Back to Brunch
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
With Biden's victory all but confirmed, we discuss the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election: the narratives being spun to explain the results, Trump's response, why four years of Biden/McConnell will almost certainly be bad, and why there still may be cause of optimism. Then we discuss a movie for times like this: Charlie Chaplin's career-destroying anti-capitalist black MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947), a film that told America, "Things are bad, and have always been bad."
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| 0:00.0 | From the war against this order from sirens night and day |
| 0:05.2 | From the fires of the homeless from the passions of the gay democracy is coming to the USA. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Michael and us. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Will Sloane here as always with. |
| 0:21.4 | Luke Savage. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello everyone, happy election week. |
| 0:24.0 | You were telling me that you were fighting a pretty severe case of Twitter Brain this week. |
| 0:29.0 | I feel I have too. |
| 0:31.0 | I feel like I've constantly been on my phone, constantly been firing out, you know, great hot takes, scalding, brilliant insights, but... |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, I was going to talk to you about that because actually our new partners at the Lincoln Project |
| 0:45.2 | haven't liked some of the stuff you've been saying. |
| 0:48.0 | They want to have a sit down. |
| 0:49.0 | Ooh, they're going to censor me, are they? |
| 0:51.9 | That's my Ricky Jervais impression. That one might have been a bit on the |
| 0:55.6 | note. Maybe not. Listen to it when it comes out and see if it worked. But where's your state of mind |
| 0:59.8 | at right now? A couple days ago we had a little jam session about the election. |
| 1:05.2 | Biden has since been I guess it's been called for him. I know they're still |
| 1:09.9 | counting some votes but it's pretty much official now that he's the |
| 1:13.1 | president-elect we've had a little bit of time to cool down where's your head |
| 1:17.5 | at right now I mean at this moment my head is just exhausted from |
| 1:21.7 | processing so much data about the election trying to go through it |
| 1:27.2 | sort out what I really think try to kind of parse all of the different narratives but I think |
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