Michael and Us: Omni Consumer Products
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the source of the problem in the corporate world. The Superdelegate patron tier has voted for us to watch one of the most beloved screen satires of all time, and we were happy to oblige.
See cohost Will introduce a screening of Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You (2013) at Toronto's Fox Theatre on August 23 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/dont-let-the-riverbeast-get-you-10th-anniversary/
Order cohost Luke's book The Dead Center - https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-dead-center/
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 | It's morning again in America. |
| 0:04.0 | Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history. |
| 0:10.0 | With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, |
| 0:17.0 | more than at any time in the past four years. |
| 0:22.0 | This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married, |
| 0:27.0 | and with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago. |
| 0:31.0 | They can look forward with confidence to the future. |
| 0:36.0 | It's morning again in America, |
| 0:39.0 | and under the leadership of President Reagan, |
| 0:42.0 | our country is proud and stronger and better. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here is always with. |
| 0:50.0 | Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. We're coming to you from an absolutely sweltering Toronto today. |
| 0:55.0 | We went outside to get some coffee beans, get some fuel before recording. |
| 1:00.0 | Just walked down the street, and yeah, I'm not going outside again today. |
| 1:04.0 | And just in general, the man across from me, he's a very tired boy these days. |
| 1:08.0 | He's been working on a really big project, which is really siphoning his energy. |
| 1:12.0 | Me, I've just been still recovering from the many S-lings and arrows that life throws at me. |
| 1:18.0 | So, you know, really, we've got two very tired boys. |
| 1:21.0 | Two two wounded warriors here. Also, the thing Will's talking about is not my book, |
| 1:26.0 | which is coming out soon and which has started to ship. |
| 1:29.0 | So yeah, I got a lot of my plate, folks, but it's the it's the book after that book. |
| 1:34.0 | But one of my favorite parts of the week is always getting together with my boy Will Sloan here |
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