(Unlocked) On John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
*Episode originally published October 2021*
Nick Estes (@nickwestes) and Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) discuss the specter of settler colonialism in John Carpenter's horror classic, Halloween (1978).
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Halloween, everyone. This is Nick Estes, your co-host of the Red Nation podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | We are here to announce a special audio release of our Halloween 1978 episode which we recorded last year in honor of |
| 0:17.9 | Halloween my favorite holiday my favorite settler holiday I should say so we're giving this to you as a bonus |
| 0:27.6 | just for listening to the podcast and we recently recorded a two hour long episode of the most recent Halloween trilogy |
| 0:38.1 | with Jimmy Lee Curtis as Lori Strode coming back in 2022. We did a three-part sort of breakdown of the movies |
| 0:47.9 | themselves. I'm joined by horror critic and you know friend of the show kaley Simmons to discuss what it means to be |
| 0:57.6 | Halloween in 2022 and the nightmare of settler colonialism still haunts us to this day and Michael Myers himself |
| 1:09.5 | embodies that eliminatory and annihilatory and genocidal impulse he is the shape he is the |
| 1:18.9 | ultimate evil as we discuss in our two hour long discussion. |
| 1:25.0 | If you'd like to get access to that, |
| 1:26.6 | subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon. |
| 1:29.7 | com back slash red media PR. You can also get access to our bonus episodes my co-host |
| 1:36.7 | Jen and I recorded a three hour long podcast recording answering your questions that you've had for us for probably many years. |
| 1:50.0 | We're hoping to do more Q&As or ask me anything. Once you become a subscriber to our |
| 1:56.0 | Patreon you can listen to those podcasts as well as other goodies from the Red Power Hour |
| 2:01.7 | and bonus content going back in our back catalog for at least two years. |
| 2:08.0 | So thanks again for subscribing and thanks again for listening. |
| 2:12.0 | Enjoy this Halloween and enjoy this bonus episode about Michael Myers, the |
| 2:18.4 | shape and Halloween 1978. 1778. |
| 2:27.0 | The music will be playing, all cue with a duh, do-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo |
| 2:30.0 | it's really catchy. |
| 2:32.0 | So, Nick, we are recording in person for the first time. |
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