Michael and Us: The Nazarene Troublemaker
Jacobin Radio
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🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the election year of 2004, an ultraviolent subtitled right-wing Christian movie became a genuine cultural phenomenon and political lightning-rod. We finally discuss THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004) and theology according to Mel Gibson. PLUS: the White House Correspondents Dinner, the Columbia encampment, and the one optimistic takeaway of a discouraging week.
"This Is How Power Protects Itself" by Jack Mirkinson - https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/columbia-ccny-cuny-protest-nypd-police-brutality/
"Mel Gibson's Martyrdom Complex" by Frank Rich - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/movies/mel-gibson-s-martyrdom-complex.html
"The Gospel According to Mel" by Christopher Hitchens - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/03/hitchens-201102
The Mel Gibson/Diane Sawyer interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ecnfe530IE
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 | We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show each time that we walk into this |
| 0:04.8 | a gust and famous studio. |
| 0:06.4 | We're starting out from scratch after a run of 20 years and so we hope that you don't mind that |
| 0:10.8 | our producer was not doing well. We hope that you don't mind that our producer was not doing. We hope that you don't mind that their producer was not doing. |
| 0:15.6 | They hope that you don't mind that their producer what's going to be one. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Michael and us. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Will Sloane. |
| 0:21.5 | Luke Savage is with me. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen, I just have to say Luke and I have just been watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip for an upcoming episode. |
| 0:31.0 | This little teaser for you all. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, it's like, we're just, I don't know. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm vibrating. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm just having such a good time. |
| 0:38.0 | Like, I've never really been into the West Wing. |
| 0:41.0 | I've never watched it seriously or ironically except for this |
| 0:44.9 | podcast. Unlike me for whom it's my favorite show. But I have seen all of Studio 60 on |
| 0:49.9 | the Sunset Strip and revisiting it now like oh I mean I mean we weren't we were |
| 0:55.0 | actually going to record on it today but we realized very quickly like this is |
| 0:59.0 | such a rich text like we might just watch all of it if we just made Michael and us about Studio 60 on the sunset |
| 1:06.1 | strip for the next month and covered every episode I'd be okay with that I mean we just saw |
| 1:10.9 | folks you know fans of studio 60 |
| 1:13.7 | us in the studio 60 community will know what I'm talking about when I say that we have |
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