Michael and Us: Rank Punditry
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🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With an election looming in Canada, we decided to look back on a time when Justin Trudeau's father received his punishment at the hands of the Canadian media. The National Film Board of Canada documentary HISTORY ON THE RUN: THE MEDIA AND THE '79 ELECTION (1979) chronicles the unusual media landscape that led to a nine-month interruption in Pierre Trudeau's long tenure as Prime Minister. We discuss how media shapes and responds to election narratives, how things have changed since 1979, and the unusual Trudeau/Joe Clark/Ed Broadbent election. PLUS: rank punditry about Justin Trudeau's chances.
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 | Take it all to the great, I know, take it all to the beauty where you go. Take it all to the great, I know. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloane. Here is always with Luke Savage. Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:15.2 | A store we were away last week. But I think we've been doing the podcast pretty much uninterrupted for |
| 0:20.9 | going on five years, something like that. And what can I say? Sometimes we need a little bit of a break. |
| 0:25.6 | But listen Patrons, we didn't cheat you out of any content. You got your episode. So, uh, |
| 0:30.7 | oh, by the way, check out the Michael and us Patreon. Patreon.com slash Michael's lots of great content |
| 0:36.7 | there. We had recent episodes on David Lynch's Lost Highway. What else have we had? You can hear my |
| 0:42.1 | interview with Dan Kaufman. He's writing you might have seen in The New York Times in New Yorker. |
| 0:46.8 | I talked to him about Scott Walker's legacy in the state of Wisconsin and how it in many ways kind of |
| 0:52.2 | pre-saged what happened with Donald Trump. One extra episode a week on there, but also lots of |
| 0:56.2 | bonus content like that. Anyway, this week, we got a Canada episode for you. The reason for this |
| 1:01.6 | is pretty straightforward. I don't think, you know, most of our American listeners and listeners |
| 1:05.8 | further afield will be aware of this. Truthfully, plenty of our Canadian listeners, plenty of people |
| 1:11.0 | in Canada may not know this, but we're probably days away from a federal election call here. |
| 1:16.3 | If it hasn't happened by the time you hear this, Steven. Yeah, Sunday is the rumor of not this |
| 1:21.5 | Sunday next Sunday. I was writing about this today, so I was kind of keen to discuss it. And there's |
| 1:27.3 | a documentary, which we're going to be talking about later, that I've wanted to discuss for a while. |
| 1:31.5 | It's kind of an interesting documentary about media coverage of the 1979 Canadian federal election. |
| 1:37.4 | But off the top, I did want to talk a little bit about kind of the current state of playing Canadian |
| 1:42.0 | politics. I mean, Will, have you been following it at all? Are you one of the prospective listeners |
| 1:45.9 | who I just referred to? No, I've been following it sort of ambiently. I know who the guys are. |
| 1:52.4 | I know which parties are going to be kind of the big three. I know that Justin Trudeau |
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