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🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah Uetricht to parse the ambiguous politics of FIRST BLOOD (1982), where Sylvester Stallone is just as frazzled by right-wing cops as he is by left-wing protestors. We also situate the film among other Vietnam War movies, and compare the Vietnam canon to Iraq War cinema. PLUS: Luke has been reading Obama's autobiography and has some thoughts.
Check out Micah's podcast The Vast Majority - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vast-majority/id1462787412
Check out Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, by Micah and Meagan Day - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3167-bigger-than-bernie
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0:00.0 | It's a long old and it's hardest down. |
0:09.0 | Tell me what do you do to survive? |
0:15.0 | When they drop first blood, |
0:20.0 | that's just a tournament. |
0:24.0 | Day and night, we've got a fight to keep alive. |
0:30.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Michael and us. As always I'm Luke Savage with me is |
0:37.2 | Will Sloane and joining us today all the way from Chicago Illinois home of |
0:42.4 | Barack Obama a friend of the show, deep dish |
0:45.2 | pizza, lots of other cool stuff. |
0:47.9 | Siskill and Ebert. |
0:50.9 | We're joined by my colleague and comrade and friend Jacobin managing editor host of the |
0:55.4 | vast majority podcast author with Megan Day of Bigger than Bernie Mikey |
1:00.1 | Mikey Utrecht mica thanks for joining us thank you very much for having me glad to be here |
1:04.0 | So we're gonna talk about the movie Rambo First Blood today |
1:07.0 | But for the past two days I've been knee deep in something very Chicago themed well well not really, but kind of Chicago rooted, which is |
1:15.6 | Barack Obama's book. |
1:17.2 | Ah yes, my kind of town, Chicago, you know? |
1:21.3 | I picked it up, picked it up at my local indigo curbside recently and I already said this on our |
1:28.0 | recent bonus episode but the front kind of area of my local indigo is basically you've just been turned into a warehouse for Barack Obama books. |
1:36.8 | Like you could build a fort out of all the books. |
1:39.4 | There's just like stacks of them and it was very degrading going and picking up this book I felt like I wanted to wear a |
1:45.2 | hat saying like I'm just getting this to review it or something like that but I've been reading it and it's I mean it's like |
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