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Michael and Us: Coronation Training Montage

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

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We mark Queen Elizabeth's passing by looking at towering work of royalist kitsch, THE KING'S SPEECH (2010). We discuss how this Oscar-winner humanizes the monarchy in order to uphold it.


See Luke speak at the Toronto International Festival of Authors on September 27 - https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/critical-conversation-new-working-class/


Hear Will on Canadaland - https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/815-our-royals-our-elves/


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.




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0:00.0

Why? Why were you staying with a convicted sex offender?

0:03.3

Right, because this was serious and I felt that doing it over the telephone was the chicken's

0:14.3

way of doing it. I had to go and see him and talk to him. Oh, in 2010 that there wasn't,

0:19.8

certainly wasn't a party to celebrate his release in December because it was a small dinner party.

0:27.6

There were any eight or ten of us, I think, the dinner.

0:31.1

You were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender.

0:35.7

It was a convenient place to stay. Welcome back to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan.

0:40.7

We reintroduced this man on our Patreon episode this week, but because this is a free episode,

0:46.3

I'm thrilled to reintroduce him to the Cheapskates, people who don't want to give us money.

0:51.4

It's Mr. Luke Savage, hello.

0:53.2

Yeah, hi, I'm back.

0:54.5

Having had Elecution lessons, I'm going to be able to fulfill the role of podcast host,

0:59.6

expect it of me, and I'm pleased to be able to continue my service.

1:03.5

From the corridors of power, West Minster, to the humble pub south of the Thames,

1:08.8

everyone is gathered around their radio. It's waiting for your address to guide us through this

1:14.5

difficult time. Yeah, so we watched the King's Speech this week, and there's a lot to say about it.

1:20.0

I mean, I don't think we need to explain too much why we watched that.

1:23.2

I had the thought, you know, reading the awful John Cass article, which if people listen to

1:28.4

it was an episode of Choppa last week. The great Maestro, John Cass.

1:33.6

Chicago's greatest son wrote this really weird article about, you know,

1:39.6

the Helen Mirren Queen movie, formerly an episode on our podcast.

1:43.5

And, you know, that's a movie that just kind of came and went, you know, I feel like not a lot of

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