Michael and Us: Radioactive Dreams
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cinema's most enduring symbol of the perils of nuclear proliferation first crawled out of Tokyo Bay. We discuss how the original GODZILLA (1954) channeled the mood of its time. PLUS: how the media talks about the congressional wrangling over the reconciliation bill.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. To hear weekly bonus episodes, subscribe to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, son, follow up fair? |
| 0:10.0 | Come to us, come to us, come to us, come to us, come to us, come to us. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here as always with Luke Savage, hello everyone. |
| 0:35.4 | One of my favorite tweets of all time, one I think about constantly is that old Bill |
| 0:39.2 | Corbett tweet where he was shopping for bananas. |
| 0:42.7 | He posted a picture of a banana that he got the store, which is a little sticker on it |
| 0:46.5 | that had like the Star Wars logo and he tweeted, why is Star Wars on my banana? |
| 0:51.3 | Why does my banana have to be Star Wars? |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah, and I thought about that because a couple of weeks ago I was out at the corner |
| 0:57.9 | store, getting stuff that you get at a corner store and one of the things I got was |
| 1:02.6 | dental floss picks and this means nothing for our listening audience but this is a visual |
| 1:07.9 | lay that I have here just for Luke because I want him to see, now these are Star Wars |
| 1:15.8 | floss picks, the brand is called Firefly but it's got Star Wars, it's got a Star Wars |
| 1:21.5 | character on it, who's got a helmet. |
| 1:23.8 | And an orange lightsaber and they're orange floss picks. |
| 1:27.2 | Right, right. |
| 1:27.9 | So I got this because this was the only floss pick option at the store and now I see this |
| 1:33.9 | every morning when I open the cupboard in the bathroom. |
| 1:36.3 | Boy, Disney really does have full spectrum dominance, doesn't it? |
| 1:40.0 | And I resent it more and more every day because I understand that all merch on some level |
| 1:46.5 | is an advertisement for the brand, an advertisement for the corporation like I get that if I get |
| 1:52.3 | a Darth Vader action figure, that is ultimately, it's a commercial enterprise. |
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