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Michael and Us: What's Left?

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Politics, History, News

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The 1969 documentary WHAT'S LEFT? captures the Canadian left (and more specifically, Canada's New Democratic Party) being pulled in two directions: by an emerging, student-led generation of radical activists, and an older political class that has either grown pragmatic or complacent depending on who you ask. We discuss the history of the Canadian left, and what has both changed and remained the same in the 50+ years since the film. PLUS: We catch an acute case of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them fever!!!


Watch the documentary What's Left? here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRzNoaEw3xM


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.



Transcript

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0:00.0

Music

0:15.0

Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloane, here is always with.

0:18.1

Luke Savage, welcome back everyone.

0:20.0

We're recording remotely, we are recording on the Easter holiday weekend, I'm at my in-laws

0:25.4

place in an isolated office in the basement.

0:28.8

And it's good to be some place for the Easter weekend, hope you all have a place to go as

0:34.4

well.

0:35.4

Anyway, first order of business, I like you, like Luke, like everyone have fantastic

0:41.8

beasts and where to find them, the fever.

0:44.4

Well, I actually speak for yourself, I still have more be as mind.

0:47.8

You can feel it in the air, people cannot stop talking about the blockbuster new film, fantastic

0:53.4

beasts colon the secrets of Dumbledore, I think that's what it's called.

0:58.4

That's right folks, they put Dumbledore's name in the title.

1:01.2

If you've seen the poster or if you've seen billboards for the movie, you'll see that

1:04.8

the word Dumbledore is much bigger than fantastic beasts, as if to remind you guys, guys,

1:11.6

you remember Harry Potter, you liked that, right?

1:14.3

I know you're not too into the whole fantastic beasts, whatever that is, but remember, it's

1:19.3

the same universe guys, you better show up to this one.

1:23.4

Believe it or not, I've actually seen I think two of the movies in the series, he's sometimes

1:28.3

when I get together with our mutual friend, Brandon Hackett, sometimes we watch good movies,

1:32.9

although I feel like we tell ourselves that and I feel like the ratio of good to bad movies

1:37.0

is maybe sort of like, you know, four to one with the bad movies winning out.

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