Michael and Us: The Sound of Freedom Episode
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Unfortunately, there was no avoiding it. We finally went to see the right-wing human-trafficking blockbuster SOUND OF FREEDOM (2023) and had one of our more unpleasant viewing experiences. We discuss the film's astroturfed box office, as well as the reasons for its very real cultural resonance.
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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 | Welcome to my class. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with Luke Savage. Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:23.8 | We're always advocating for public private partnerships on this show and boy do we have |
| 0:28.5 | a movie that offers a model. But before we get to that it's come to our attention that we |
| 0:34.5 | found a lot of new listeners over the years. We're not at our humble beginnings anymore. I think |
| 0:39.3 | it's probably hard to break into a new social group which is what this podcast is. We are, we are |
| 0:45.0 | your new pair of social friends. We're an exclusive club. That's right. So we thought it might be a good |
| 0:50.3 | time to just kind of reintroduce ourselves, explain the concept of the show because this is a big |
| 0:55.2 | movie folks. We might have people listening who haven't listened before. This is the political |
| 1:00.9 | movie of the year. I don't think that's an overstatement, right? I mean you could say Oppenheimer is |
| 1:06.2 | bigger but it's maybe a little bigger Barbie. But yeah look what Will said is true. The growth of |
| 1:11.5 | this podcast over the past couple of years has definitely exceeded our expectations and we've |
| 1:17.0 | gotten so into the groove of doing it that you know we forget about the exposition. There's a lot |
| 1:22.8 | of people who find this show just kind of in the wild now which you know never used to happen before. |
| 1:28.0 | There's many of you who will be listening on the Jacobin feed and you know you're used to hearing |
| 1:32.9 | Dan Denver's you know brilliant interviews. You're used to hearing long reads. You listen to behind |
| 1:38.3 | the news whatever and you don't know who the hell we are and you're like what what is this show |
| 1:42.7 | Michael and us? Why is this why is the show called Michael and us is one of these guys Michael like |
| 1:47.2 | what's going on? Yeah we probably should have changed the name like five years ago but I think it's |
| 1:51.0 | a little late now. There's a bit of a sunk cost thing going on. We'll tell you about the name in a |
| 1:55.4 | moment and look if you're a longtime listener you can feel free to skip the next few minutes. |
| 1:59.9 | As I was saying I mean now that the show has kind of grown I've more and more often had the experience |
| 2:05.4 | where someone will tell me you know in a Twitter DM or something they found it in the wild they didn't |
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