Michael and Us: Kung Fu Bicycles
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and, for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Was this industry exploitative? Did it produce art? What even is "art" anyway? We tackle all these questions and more as we discuss the documentary OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (2003).
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 | Can our government be competent? |
| 0:08.0 | Jimmy Carter says yes |
| 0:13.0 | Jimmy Carter says yes |
| 0:15.0 | Can our government be honest |
| 0:19.0 | be honest |
| 0:21.0 | Jimmy Carter says yes. |
| 0:23.0 | Jimmy Carter says yes. |
| 0:24.0 | Jimmy Carter says yes. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, welcome to Michael and us. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Will Sloane here is always with. |
| 0:30.0 | Luke Savage, good to be back. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, I don't know why I said good to be back. |
| 0:34.0 | I haven't been anywhere. |
| 0:36.0 | God damn it. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, we've been away for a week, I don't know, like five days, I mean, you know. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome back to the show everyone. |
| 0:46.0 | What you were hearing there was my kind of mild discomfort at the way we introduced the show, |
| 0:52.0 | which has always felt a little bit generic to me. |
| 0:54.3 | Isn't it funny that over the last I'd say month especially we've had such a hard time just like getting |
| 1:01.0 | into the show and we've recently passed 500 episodes I think if you |
| 1:05.0 | listen to episodes I don't know 300 through 450 we're probably like perfect at |
| 1:10.8 | introducing the show we have it down to a science but at some perfect at |
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