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Michael and Us: Let's See What's On Netflix...

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

Politics, History, News

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Our sacred quest to tackle every political comedy inevitably reaches the Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis vehicle THE CAMPAIGN (2012). We discuss what a middle-of-the-road comedy from the middle of the Obama era captures of its time and ambience. PLUS: Checking in on some of the wackier characters in the Toronto mayoral race.


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

Woah!

0:01.0

Hell might just be a big, fatty dream

0:06.0

Without a dream, or a water-lotted shoe

0:12.0

Welcome to Mike Lennas, I'm Wolf Sloan, here is always with

0:15.0

Luke Savage, welcome back everyone

0:17.0

Happy to be here with you Luke, we haven't seen each other in a little bit

0:20.0

because I was in Kalamazoo, Michigan at a dog show, believe it or not

0:24.0

Would you believe that I actually know Kalamazoo pretty well?

0:27.0

I, I, I, I, you, Kalamazoo, yeah, but there are many times, what brought you to Kalamazoo

0:35.0

My parents were medievalists and it has long been home to one of the big medieval studies conferences

0:41.0

So I've seen the vistas of Kalamazoo, Michigan many times

0:44.0

Wow, well I saw the, uh, the something or other dog show there

0:48.0

And I saw the Kalamazoo 10 movie theater, a pleasingly junky movie theater

0:53.0

Where I saw Spider-Man across the spiderverse

0:55.0

Now what when you see when to a dog show my soul knowledge of what a dog show is like comes from the movie best in show

1:02.0

Yeah, I've come from Christopher gas literally everyone I've said this to has said oh like best in show

1:07.8

Well, it's quite a bit like that movie. I mean it the one in the movie looks a little bit higher budget than I the one

1:13.3

I went to I mean so it's it's competitive. Yeah, it's competitive and the dogs are they competing based on like like it

1:18.8

Are they you know, they're like lifting weights? They're like racing. Yeah swimsuit competition

1:23.0

They all have to say what they would do with a million dollars that they had it and they all say give it a charity

1:27.2

Is it but is it like like are the dogs competing on aesthetics? Are they competing on like endurance and like well?

1:33.7

I mean it varies there are some aesthetic competitions. They're not they don't race at least not the ones that I saw

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