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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Upon its release, Steven Soderbergh's TRAFFIC (2000) offered something novel: a cinematic tapestry that criticized America's War on Drugs. More than 20 years later, we consider its strengths, as well as the impact that time has diminished. PLUS: Let's read a little from Prince Harry autobiography, shall we?
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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1:12.2 | From my Facebook memories from 7 years ago, that was 2016 by the way, we all remember that |
1:19.4 | year. |
1:20.4 | Yeah, in some ways it feels like it's never ended. |
1:22.6 | I saw someone do a tweet recently where they said like 2023 feels less like the third |
1:27.3 | year of 2020 than the 7th year of 2016, and I think there's something to that. |
1:31.8 | But this was back when the Hillary Clinton people were doing the Hillary.com, they were |
1:37.2 | making their own like in-house content. |
1:40.2 | Like this is how you got the like 13 reasons that, you know, Hillary is my abuela and stuff. |
1:44.8 | Well, in fairness to them, I mean everybody was doing that, I mean, the Hillary Clinton |
1:49.1 | team was particularly adept at that kind of thing, but that was the height of branded content, |
1:56.2 | you know. |
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