PREVIEW - #253 - Grizzly Woman

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/53847856 The former Governor of Alaska can see Nick Broomfield from her house in SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA! (2011), the British muckraker's irreverent documentary about Sarah Palin. Broomfield reconstructs the life and turbulent political times of the onetime Tea Party standard-bearer, and your hosts find themselves with a split verdict on his success. PLUS: we discuss two of the most important artworks mankind has ever produced: Space Jam 2 and Moby Dick.

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0:00.0	But it's time to enter a different cinematic universe, the Nick Broomfield cinematic universe.
0:04.8	That's right, it's Sweeps Month on Michael and Us, and we're bringing in the broom.
0:12.0	We are talking about his little-loved 2011 film, Sarah Palin, You Betcha.
0:18.0	What do you think of Sarah Palin as a president?
0:20.4	You know, it's amazing how many people have kind of swallowed the Sarah Palin mythology hook
0:24.4	line and sinker to the point where they're literally saying the same talking points.
0:28.3	Like you hear multiple people say something to the effect of, oh, when she's speaking to somebody,
0:32.6	they feel like they're the only person in the universe.
0:35.0	Like a bunch of people say that.
0:36.3	But you also get to meet another side of this community in Alaska.
0:40.4	You get to meet the progressive Christians.
0:42.0	You get to meet the local journalists and bloggers who don't at all fit into what, you know,
0:47.4	might be the sort of MSNBC stereotype of a town like this.
0:51.4	You get to meet the LGBTQ activists who are having insults thrown at them
0:55.2	and in some cases being threatened
0:56.4	by Sarah Palin's supporters.
0:58.7	You get to meet a guy who's written a book
1:00.6	that when she was mayor of the town,
1:02.2	she got pulled from the local library.
1:05.2	You know, she stopped short
1:05.9	at actually burning books,
1:07.2	but she had any books, you know,
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