Michael and Us: Fresh Prince of Persia
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf War. We take a visit to the consent-manufacturing factory and discuss the "apolitical" James Woods-hosted TV special VOICES THAT CARE: STAND TALL, STAND PROUD (1991).
Watch the special here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ1S_UNaWps
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 | I'm not here to justify the cause or to count up all the norms that's all been done |
| 0:10.1 | before. |
| 0:11.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | Just can't let you feel along |
| 0:18.0 | when there's so much more |
| 0:21.0 | at all was sending out to you. Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloane here as always with. |
| 0:28.1 | Luke Savage. Welcome back everyone. What are we going to launch into? |
| 0:31.3 | Well I had something to begin but then here you are all coming out with how welcome to Michael and us and it's like all right |
| 0:37.4 | The relationship just keeps further crumbling my own episode. Yeah,. The seams keep coming further and further apart. |
| 0:46.0 | We can't even get through an intro without our legendary off-mic bickering. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, well, I'll tell you about something very strange that's been happening to me recently. |
| 0:58.2 | My girlfriend got me this thing for my birthday. |
| 1:01.5 | It's awesome. It's like a sleep mask that has headphones in the |
| 1:04.7 | like bit that wraps around your head so it solves the problem of having giant |
| 1:08.9 | headphones on your head like having to take those to bed and being unable to lie on your sides but as soon as I started using it something very strange |
| 1:16.8 | started to happen every time I would go to sleep and I would start listening |
| 1:20.5 | to something I would start to hear like a voice coming |
| 1:24.4 | through the headphones. At first it just sounded like it was kind of background |
| 1:28.5 | noise and what I was listening to, but then I paused what I was listening to and I |
| 1:32.2 | realized it was still there. |
| 1:34.0 | I turned it up and it was pretty unnerving. |
| 1:37.4 | It was a monologue delivered by an unknown male voice that was kind of creepy. It had something to do with a lighthouse and kind of |
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