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Michael and Us: Gun Kata

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

Politics, History, News

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

If society outlawed emotions, could we stop all war and conflict? This is the very, very stupid question at the heart of EQUILIBRIUM (2002), the dystopian extravaganza that introduced the world to the art of "gun kata."


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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody was come for fighting.

0:04.0

Those kids were fastest lightning.

0:09.0

All right, well, welcome back to Michael and us everyone.

0:12.0

I'm Luke Savage with me as always.

0:13.6

Will Sloane. And before we get to the episode, just a small request from your humble

0:18.6

podcasters to rate and review the show on your podcast app of choice.

0:23.0

We've got some fresh reviews in from the last time we made this request.

0:27.0

First of all, amateur move to be responding to the haters to the losers.

0:31.0

I know you're talking about haters five stars the best politics

0:34.7

podcast is about movies. Oh I see what you mean three stars used to be good.

0:39.2

Wow.

0:40.2

You can't please him all.

0:43.0

To be clear, I only knew about that because Luke told me.

0:45.0

That's right.

0:46.0

I pretend to be bulletproof, but I actually read every comment, every tweet, every DM.

0:51.0

And look, folks, sometimes I I cry what can I say some of us are simply

0:55.6

too famous to keep up with all of that but please do rate and review the show we'd

1:00.6

really appreciate it I still don't really understand how it helps but it has

1:04.3

something to do with algorithms every time we ask we get new ratings, new reviews and it does seem to

1:09.7

make the show more visible on podcast apps and things like that so please do us a solid

1:14.6

we'd also be remiss if we forgot to mention the Michael and us Patreon patreon

1:19.1

com slash Michael and us your subscription gets you at minimum an extra episode every single week

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