Michael and Us: From Jysk with Love w/ Luke Lebrun
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Is it ethical for a journalist to also act as a spy for a foreign government? Luke Lebrun of PressProgress joins us to consider the far-fetched claims of one of Canada's worst journalists, Adam Zivo. PLUS: In this very special episode, we catch up on some news items of Canadian interest, including the declining polling for Justin Trudeau's liberals, and the rising number of far-right Canadian influencers.
"This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’" by Luke Lebrun - https://pressprogress.ca/this-national-post-columnist-says-he-spied-for-a-foreign-intelligence-agency-experts-call-his-behaviour-unethical-and-absurd/
"I cover the far right for a living. This is why I wasn’t surprised to find Canadians embedded in an alleged Russian propaganda scheme" by Luke Lebrun - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/i-cover-the-far-right-for-a-living-this-is-why-i-wasnt-surprised-to/article_56042920-6c7c-11ef-aa82-9302cac8f9d3.html
"It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election" by Luke Savage - https://jacobin.com/2023/01/hillary-clinton-russian-bots-2016-presidential-election-trump
"In Toronto's Weirdest Cinema, a Portrait of the Artist I'd Never Become" by Adam Zivo - https://quillette.com/2022/01/18/in-torontos-weirdest-cinema-a-portrait-of-the-artist-id-never-become/
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 | Hello gang, your old friend Will here. |
| 0:02.5 | What follows is a special episode of the Michael and Us podcast |
| 0:06.3 | where Luke and I catch up on some Canadian news |
| 0:09.6 | with our good friend, the journalist Luke Lebrun. But because my co-host will give me |
| 0:14.8 | several lashings and send me to bed without supper if I don't remind you we have |
| 0:19.3 | a Patreon, I'll just say at Patreon.com slash Michael and us in a couple of days |
| 0:25.0 | we'll be covering some items of international interest |
| 0:28.0 | including the recent Harris Trump presidential debate |
| 0:31.0 | as well as the upcoming David Cronenberg movie |
| 0:34.3 | The Shrouds which we just saw at the Toronto Film Festival. Remember folks that's |
| 0:39.4 | Patreon.com slash Michael and us. Also if you're already following us on |
| 0:44.8 | Patreon and are in fact hearing this on Patreon well thank you please consider |
| 0:50.6 | yourself excused from listening to this commercial. |
| 0:53.3 | Now, on with the show. So am I correct in reading this and I will confess that I just skimmed it very quickly before this recording that Adam Zevo is writing a tribute to an independent cinema theater run by a guy who was busted for child porn? |
| 1:28.8 | Oh buddy, we know all about this. Will, take it away, why don't you? |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, I mean, if you're not familiar with Reg Hart, he's kind of a folk hero, is that the right term, in the city of Toronto. |
| 1:43.8 | The long story short is he's a guy who runs a movie theater |
| 1:47.3 | out of his living room on Bathurst Street. |
| 1:49.9 | And he's run it out of his living room for 30 years. |
| 1:52.8 | Before that, he showed his little movies in other venues as well. |
| 1:56.6 | And he's a local eccentric. |
| 1:58.6 | And the city has tried to shut him down many times |
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