Michael and Us: The Fatal Shore
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Australian land and British institutions mix uncomfortably in Peter Weir's PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975). We speculate from our Canadian vantage points why this story has become one of the iconic documents of Australia's national identity. PLUS: the boys cannot stop talking about Bob Dylan!
"Picnic at Hanging Rock: What We See and What We Seem" by Megan Abbott - https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3202-picnic-at-hanging-rock-what-we-see-and-what-we-seem
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 | And he said, you come from a land down below, yeah, when it's gone, let's must go. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to Michael and us. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Will Sloan. |
| 0:12.6 | Here is always with. |
| 0:13.6 | Luke Savage. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:15.6 | Before we started recording, Luke and I were doing our usual jaunt through YouTube, visiting |
| 0:19.7 | all of our favorite YouTube channels, wet movie, cool dude, or people like that. |
| 0:24.0 | There's one YouTube channel that we've never talked about and that I'm not going to tell |
| 0:27.5 | you who it is. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm not going to tell you the name, I'm not going to tell you what the videos are because |
| 0:32.3 | first of all, this should be our little secret. |
| 0:34.1 | We need that one that's just for us. |
| 0:36.0 | But it is a vlogger that we've been watching for over 10 years now. |
| 0:39.6 | This guy is precious and we're going to protect him. |
| 0:41.8 | He seems like a nice guy. |
| 0:42.9 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:43.9 | And we don't want him. |
| 0:44.9 | We don't want to sick the hordes on him. |
| 0:47.2 | But we've been watching him since we were in undergrad, actually. |
| 0:51.1 | And he had a video that was like the 10th anniversary of his channel today. |
| 0:56.5 | This is his second channel. |
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