Michael and Us: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In 2005, the Clinton family's own foundation created a DVD compilation of times when Bill and Hillary brought the funny. We discuss A TIME TO LAUGH: THE CLINTONS' HUMOR (2005), and glean a little bit of insight into how the former First Family view themselves. PLUS: From an assassination attempt of the former U.S. president to a coup attempt on the current one, we've got a lot of news to catch up on.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Oh! I am good how are you doing all right yeah just in Ottawa here feels like a good |
| 0:18.0 | week to be unplugging from from the news you want want to know something fun. |
| 0:24.0 | It's been a while since we've recorded |
| 0:26.0 | when the assassination attempt occurred on the weekend. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't think I have to specify which assassination attempt. |
| 0:31.0 | I think we all remember it. we can assume a certain general knowledge on the part of the audience in this case. I was driving from |
| 0:38.4 | Philadelphia to the Mahoning Valley about a two-hour drive and my traveling companion was looking at his phone and said |
| 0:45.6 | There was an assassination attempt on Trump and I thought to myself boy I'm really glad I'm not going to be looking at my phone for the next two hours. |
| 0:53.8 | I was just looking at like the beautiful Appalachias, |
| 0:58.2 | just looking at the sunsets, and I don't know I was pretty unplugged from a lot of it. Yeah I've been buried deep in |
| 1:05.5 | archives and actually I was working out of a storage locker on Monday and |
| 1:09.6 | Tuesday where there wasn't even any cell phone service. |
| 1:13.0 | So that was perfect. |
| 1:14.0 | And it's funny, what I gleaned of the discourse about Donald Trump was, |
| 1:18.4 | there was that spectator op-ed that I'm sure you saw that was called, |
| 1:22.2 | We Are All Mega Now and there's a sort of script that usually happens when something like this happens where a kind of national unity is enforced and I obviously saw that you know from certain |
| 1:37.3 | higher echelons of the discourse but in the lower echelons of the discourse, where people like you and I, you know, inhabit, |
| 1:44.8 | I mostly saw conspiratorial stuff from across the spectrum. |
| 1:49.7 | I saw people wishing death upon the former president. I saw a lot of jokes, a lot of fear that this could help him in November, and just a general sense of not unity, as well as a general sense that this is one more thing that's just kind of going to drift away with the news cycle to quickly be replaced by another thing. |
| 2:11.6 | This assassination attempt on the former president. |
| 2:14.6 | Well, I don't really know about that, although I do think that based on what's emerging |
| 2:19.6 | about the shooter, the fact that the shooter just appears to have had no particular motive, no real |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jacobin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.