Michael and Us: God and Country
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Released shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Howard Hawks' SERGEANT YORK (1941) was an attempt to rouse popular support for America entering the Second World War. We excavate one of the biggest box office hits of its day and find a movie in which God and Country are pitted together, and Country wins. PLUS: we hash over some of the drastic and unhappy changes that have happened to our local government in Toronto, Canada.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, my co-host Luke has sworn he would make me go without lunch or dinner if I didn't |
| 0:09.2 | briefly tell you about the Michael and us Patreon. |
| 0:12.4 | At patreon.com slash Michael and us, for a mere $5 Yankee dollars per month, you get an |
| 0:17.8 | entire extra episode every week. |
| 0:20.8 | Recent Patreon episodes have tackled such films as Sorry to Bother You, Morgan Spurlock's |
| 0:26.0 | Super Size Me, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapesto Tell, and a very bizarre movie that we found |
| 0:32.0 | on 2B called Trump vs The Illuminati. |
| 0:36.2 | All that and several years worth of bonus content at patreon.com slash Michael and us. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here is always with Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. |
| 1:04.3 | This is a Toronto based podcast, I'm still in Europe, but the spiritual home is Toronto. |
| 1:10.6 | I still pay taxes in Toronto, and therefore I wouldn't mind kicking things off on this |
| 1:15.7 | episode with just a little bit of local Toronto news, wouldn't that be fun, don't you think |
| 1:20.7 | our American listeners would enjoy that? |
| 1:22.6 | I do think it would be fun in the same way that I've asked that we discontinue that |
| 1:26.7 | Great White North song, whatever the hell that is, whenever we do Canadian content. |
| 1:30.8 | I feel like in the spirit of Canadian nationalism, we don't need to introduce ourselves as a |
| 1:37.2 | Toronto based podcast, in the same way that like Brooklyn based podcast just treat New |
| 1:42.0 | York as like the default neutral thing, like the neutral and universal subjectivity is |
| 1:47.2 | to be in Brooklyn, New York, we should just do that, but for Toronto. |
| 1:51.1 | And let the exposition reveal that we're in Toronto, as opposed to saying a little bit |
| 1:55.6 | of local flavor, I don't know, what do you think, perhaps it's a fool's errand. |
| 1:59.4 | Well you heard it here first folks, we're not going to be using, I don't want to say |
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