Michael and Us: The Futility Consensus
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The documentary WHITE NOISE (2020) follows three very prominent members of the alt-right (you'll be familiar with all of them, folks) as their fortunes rise and fall during the Trump era. We discuss the ethics of interviewing/"platforming" ideological enemies, the differing aesthetic styles of various alt-right personalities, and what happens to political "scenes" during periods of eclipse. PLUS: Luke takes stock of the Canadian Conservative leadership race, and Liam Neeson makes a movie about the U.S./Mexico border.
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 | If you like the Michael and us podcast, then I think you'll definitely like more of |
| 0:09.2 | the Michael and us podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | That's right folks, at patreon.com slash Michael and us, we have an extra premium episode |
| 0:16.3 | every week. |
| 0:17.3 | That's for a month for the low, low price of $5. |
| 0:22.1 | Some of our recent Patreon episodes have included discussions on Bill Maher's new stand-up |
| 0:26.5 | special hashtag Adulting, Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece High and Low, the new mini series |
| 0:32.5 | Secrets of Playboy, and a listener selected episode on the documentary RBG. |
| 0:38.1 | Remember folks, that's patreon.com slash Michael and us, now on with the show. |
| 0:57.5 | Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here is always with. |
| 1:00.8 | Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm fond on this podcast of quoting the late great Jean Sisko when he said that movies |
| 1:07.4 | were the national dream beat. |
| 1:09.6 | Because we're fond of talking in this podcast about how cinema and all art, I guess, is |
| 1:15.1 | a way for a nation, a society to process its trauma. |
| 1:19.5 | So when Sisko said that, you're telling me he was actually channeling SIGFREED CRACKHOWER |
| 1:24.2 | and the Frankfort school. |
| 1:26.0 | Well CRACKHOWER was often called the Jean Sisko of his day. |
| 1:29.1 | Anyway, I want to bring up a movie that I went to see last night that I'm not quite sure |
| 1:33.6 | where to place it in this formulation. |
| 1:35.8 | I went to see the new Liam Deeson action movie Memory, which sometimes I like to get |
| 1:40.9 | out there and go panning for gold amongst the sort of, you know, the B movies that are |
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