Name: #418 - Of Shoes and Men by Michael and Us
Duration: 36 min 14 s
Description: Ben Affleck's AIR (2023) chronicles the wheeling and dealing that led to Michael Jordan signing with Nike, and this unabashed celebration of the world's most famous shoe brand positions the Air Jordan as a victory for trickle-down economics. We discuss the movie that asks the question: "What if you made The Social Network about people who were frickin epic??"

The 20-year filmmaking career of Alexandra Pelosi has been building up to this moment: a hagiographic documentary portrait of her mother, the outgoing U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We watched PELOSI IN THE HOUSE (2022).

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"Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Makes Awful Documentaries Fawning Over the Establishment" by Will Sloan - https://jacobin.com/2022/12/nancy-alexandra-pelosi-documentary-filmmaking-establishment

"Nancy Pelosi Delivered Little for the Left, but We Might Miss Her Anyway" by Branko Marcetic - https://jacobin.com/2022/11/nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-democratic-party-center

"The Obamanauts" by Corey Robin - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanauts

Michael and Us

#388 - House of Pelosi

A key moment in the evolution of the modern blockbuster, JURASSIC WORLD (2015) is a cynical reboot about cynical reboots. We discuss what this enormously popular movie says about the world that spawned it, as well as its very peculiar sexist streak you may have noticed. PLUS: Why is Canada's conservative movement so Americanized?

#399 - Own Your Bad

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In Chapter 3 of Demon Forces, Dimitri examines the labyrinthine intrigues and brutal realpolitik of Liberia in the early 1980s, including: overwhelming evidence that the assassination of President William Tolbert was a covert US plot, the rise to power of Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe and his pro-US People’s Redemption Council, left-wing General Thomas Weh Syen’s confrontation with Firestone and subsequent execution, Doe’s use of juju/magickal warfare to maintain power, simmering tensions among the various indigenous tribes, Reagan/Bush/Casey’s enthusiastic support for Doe, and the emergence of General Thomas Quiwonkpa as an opposition/coup leader…Some background on young Liberian activist Charles Taylor and his activities in 1970s Massachusetts, fathering a son with a Trinidadian-American woman before accepting a position in Doe’s government, running the “very important” General Services Agency, fleeing back to the US in 1983 after embezzling government money to bankroll the anti-Doe opposition, hiring sus Ramsey Clark as his lawyer, getting arrested by US Marshals, and Liberian ex-pats in New Jersey plotting a Quiwonkpa-led coup against Doe in 1985.

[UNLOCKED] #122a - DEMON FORCES 3, Part One: Authority Stealing (1980-1985)

With Trump's indictment in the news, we thought it might be a good time to watch the movie that has been more influential on QAnon than any other: Ridley Scott's little-loved seafaring adventure WHITE SQUALL (1996). We parse this half-forgotten film to figure out why, exactly, the QAnon people love it so much. "Where we go one, we go all!"

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#416 - One Insular Tahiti

Ben Affleck's AIR (2023) chronicles the wheeling and dealing that led to Michael Jordan signing with Nike, and this unabashed celebration of the world's most famous shoe brand positions the Air Jordan as a victory for trickle-down economics. We discuss the movie that asks the question: "What if you made The Social Network about people who were frickin epic??"

#418 - Of Shoes and Men

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest horror author Emma Berquist discuss trashy, late-90s post-SCREAM teen horror/slashers with a double feature of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997) + URBAN LEGEND (1998). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on Paul Schrader's MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985)and David Cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH (1991), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

Intro // 00:00-11:26
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER // 11:26-1:07:51
URBAN LEGEND // 1:22:45-2:19:22
Outro // 2:19:22-2:22:18

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283 - I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997) + URBAN LEGEND (1998) ft. Emma Berquist

Andrew, Lucy and Theo bring you: Americans who can't stop showing Instagram Live to gorillas, a stolen alligator, a garbage man who has simply had enough, the world's slowest police chase and more

EPISODE 305: World's Slowest Police Videos

Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: A ritual feast for seniors, the consequences of a failed ATM heist, the end of an illegal underwater wine operation, and a bean-centric hazmat situation.
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EPISODE 309: Beancident At Bunge

Bonus Episodes

In 2019, Clint Eastwood's RICHARD JEWELL took aim at two institutions — the FBI and the media — that were supposed to save America from Trumpism. We discuss one of the veteran auteur's most beautiful films, which is also one of his most loaded and ambiguous political hot-potatoes. PLUS: David Brooks' expensive meal, Doug Ford's about-face, and Jean-Luc Godard's film criticism.

"David Brooks and the $78 airport meal the internet is talking about" by Timothy Bella - https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/09/22/david-brooks-newark-airport-meal/

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#463 - Jewellbilly Elegy

We discuss the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut while I have the itis from eating too spicy of a burrito, but first: brain damage awareness.

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Hungover Palestinian History pt 4

Kyle Kern aka @laborkyle joins Jake to talk about Alex Garland's big dumb radical centrist film, Civil War.

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Civil War w/ Kyle Kern

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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#418 - Of Shoes and Men

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