Michael and Us: The Outsider

Jacobin Radio

Jacobin

Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With its story of an idealistic political outsider who arrives in Washington to shake things up, Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) helped codify what is perhaps the quintessential archetype of American politics. But... what does the movie actually say? To find out, we sat down and actually watched it. This one has been a long time coming, folks!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloane. Here is always with Luke Savage. Welcome back everyone.
0:18.9	Broadcasting to you tonight from beautiful kitchen or Ontario. A place for lovers.
0:25.5	Anyway, mere minutes before we started recording, I saw some exciting news about a possible movie
0:32.0	that we could talk about in the future. We often talk on this podcast about how film is a
0:36.8	powerful medium to hold the powerful accountable and to inspire social change. Well, there's a new
0:42.1	film coming out called My Sun Hunter. This came into my field of vision because it stars Gina
0:48.4	Carano who if you are a spectator of the culture war, you'll know that she was I think the lady who
0:54.9	is on the Mandalorian who got fired because of I've got her Wikipedia page in front of me and it's
1:02.2	all the things you would expect, you know, mask stuff, voter fraud stuff, black lives matter stuff.
1:09.6	Anyway, she's now co-starring in this film My Sun Hunter. Presumably in an effort to rebuild her
1:15.3	rapport with the liberal community. Well, would you believe that the film is not in favor of Hunter?
1:22.3	According to the film's producer, she is a world weary, secret service agent present at most of
1:27.1	the Biden family's dodgy dealings. She provides a voice of truth and sardonic comedy over the absurd
1:33.2	dealings of the Biden family in various Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs. The Daily Mail has
1:39.1	a bunch of pictures from the sat that it looks like if anyone has seen the able Ferreira movie
1:44.1	Welcome to New York. It looks like a right wing version of that. It's just nonstop orgy and party
1:50.5	scenes. It seems like I mean, honestly, it might make Hunter look pretty cool. But the reason I bring
1:56.8	this up ultimately is all the articles about this movie, Barry The Lead. It's going to be directed by
2:02.0	Robert Dovey. If folks don't know who Robert Dovey is, he is one of the funniest right wing
2:08.1	celebrities. He was a villain in one of the James Bond movies licensed to kill. I think that's kind of
2:13.9	kind of how he became famous sort of that he parlayed that into a long prolific directive video
2:20.4	career playing villains. And in the Trump era, he emerged as one of the greatest practitioners of
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jacobin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.