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#270 - 2006 Forever!
The mockumentary DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (2006) imagined what would happen if then-president George W. Bush was assassinated. Though briefly very contro…
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PREVIEW - #269 - Writer's Block
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/56380720 In 1980, the legendary journalist Gay Talese first learned of a peeping-tom who bought a mot…
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#268 - The Carlson Doctrine (w/ Alex Shephard)
Tucker Carlson reigns as the most-watched personality on cable news. How did he get that way? How important is he really? And what does he actually b…
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PREVIEW - #267 - The Rush Hour of Our Discontent
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/56092187 The fastest fists of the east enter a junior partnership with the biggest mouth of the west …
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#266 - Ghosts
In Apichatpong Weerasethakul's UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010), the boundaries between life and death, past and present, ghost and…
4 years, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - DuffyGate Revisited w/ Luke LeBrun
PATREON BONUS - https://www.patreon.com/posts/duffygate-w-luke-55808939 With Will on a temporary hiatus, Michael and Us is pleased to welcome Luke Le…
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PREVIEW - Richard Seymour on Afghanistan and the British Establishment
PATREON BONUS - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55643199 Just as the American media has turned on Joe Biden following the announcement of withdrawal fr…
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PREVIEW - #264 - All That's Solid...
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55508789 Our Superdelegate patrons have selected Paul Thomas Anderson's much-loved parable about Amer…
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#263 - Sculpting in Time
Andrei Tarkovsky's debut film IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (1962) sends us into a discussion about poetic cinema, memory, Russia, and what it means to be a natio…
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PREVIEW - #262 - Al Gore Lives On My Street
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/55227370 Al Gore changed the way millions of people think about the climate crisis, but a full 15 yea…
4 years, 10 months ago