E280: Imagining the Burger Reich w/ Phil Neel

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Hinterland author Phil Neel returns to explain value-form to an American by asking us to imagine a burger.

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Phil Neel's burger essays: https://brooklynrail.org/2024/12/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh/

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/02/field-notes/quarter-pounds-of-flesh-2/

Cuban hamburgerismo: https://www.sm28.org/articles/j11-the-return-of-the-cuban-proletariat/

Song: Tyler the Creator - Burger

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, darling.
0:11.3	Larry, look at this guy. I'm not going to mess with him. How are you doing, sir?
0:14.9	You look fantastic. Hello. Hello. And that's when he turned everything around. He was losing in the polls.
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.6	And then he went and worked at a McDonald's for about 25 minutes.
0:27.6	Man of the people.
0:28.6	And it just turned around from there.
0:30.6	His populist moment.
0:31.6	You know what's really interesting is everyone calls him a sociopath and a narcissist, which I think he is. But he's also
0:38.4	like a people person. Like every car of people that came up, he had something to say like,
0:43.8	oh, look at your lovely mom. Look at you. You look beautiful. You're a beautiful person. And the guy
0:49.0	pulls up in his like Toyota Crollers like, hey, I won't want to mess with this guy. You know, like a black person,
0:54.7	by the way.
0:55.3	It was a black guy.
0:56.1	But,
0:56.6	but that's the sort of like glan,
0:58.6	glad handling bullshit.
1:00.3	It was retail politics in an era when the most important commodity is the
1:05.9	burger.
1:06.6	And we are here today with Phil Neal,
1:09.5	who recently wrote a two piece, two essays about the...
1:16.7	A double whopper, if you will.
	...

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