The Fugitive (feat. Michael Liroff)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jamelle and John are joined by Michael Liroff of the Five Four podcast to discuss “The Fugitive,” a masterpiece of Dad cinema. They talk the liberal politics of the 1990s, the surprisingly nuanced racial politics of the film, and complain, as always, that they just don’t make them like this anymore.
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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Links from the episode!
The New York Times front-page for August 6, 1993
Wikipedia entry on Harold Washington, the 51st mayor of Chicago
Also, a quick note: Jamelle said this was the 27th episode of the podcast, ti is actually the 28th! Our apologies for the mistake.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I came home there was a man in my house. |
| 0:04.0 | He had an artificial arm. |
| 0:07.0 | Are you saying that I killed my wife? |
| 0:12.0 | Are you saying that I crushed her skull? |
| 0:16.0 | And that I shot her? |
| 0:19.0 | Ah! and that I shot her. All right, ladies and gentlemen, listen up. |
| 0:40.3 | We have a fugitive that's been on the run for 90 minutes. |
| 0:43.3 | Average foot speed over uneven ground barring injury is four miles an hour. |
| 0:48.3 | That will give you a radius of six miles. |
| 0:53.3 | What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target. that will give you a radius of six miles. |
| 0:58.9 | What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, hen house, outhouse, outhouse, or doghouse in this area. |
| 1:10.6 | Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimball. |
| 1:16.6 | Go get him. The |
| 1:30.3 | The Welcome to episode 27 of unclear and present danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers with the 1990s and what they say about the politics of that decade. |
| 1:59.8 | My name is Jamal Bowie. I am a columnist for the New York |
| 2:02.2 | Times opinion section. My name is John Gans. I write a substack newsletter called A Popular Front, |
| 2:08.0 | and I'm working on a book about American politics in the early 1990s. And today we are talking about |
| 2:14.4 | the fugitive, directed by Andrewrew davis a frequent unclear and present |
| 2:18.7 | danger director and starring harrison ford tommy lee jones cell award joe pantiliano uh and a lot of |
| 2:27.6 | other people he will instantly recognize it as that kind of movie here is a short plot synopsis |
| 2:33.4 | after being framed for the murder of his wife and |
| 2:36.0 | sentenced to death, Dr. Richard Kimball escapes from custody following a bus crash and sets out to |
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