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#608 - Freedom Dues (Patreon)

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2025-03-23 22:22:56
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In THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973), a black man hired as a "token" by the CIA uses his training to start a black nationalist uprising. It couldn't be a more apt time to revisit this classic of radical American cinema. PLUS: Who's excited for the Abundance Agenda?

"On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door" by Robert Daniels - https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ciff-2024-on-the-legacy-and-importance-of-the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door

"Zaslav's Hamptons-Hollywood Vanity Project" by Matthew Belloni - https://puck.news/zaslavs-hamptons-hollywood-vanity-project/

"Leak Reveals Trump’s Full Bonkers Plan for the Kennedy Center" - https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-reveals-trumps-full-bonkers-plan-for-the-kennedy-center/

Luke's interview with Benjamin Teitelbaum - https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-putins-64721929

"Radical Academics for the Status Quo" by Liza Featherstone - https://jacobin.com/2019/12/radical-academics-judith-butler-kamala-harris-donation

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notjoaquin

“Feelin’ Alright” by Joe Cocker also works as a 90s trailer song

Marshall Steinbaum

Radical academics with normie politics? @ me next time!

Mid-Sized SeDan

So glad y'all loved the movie, I was pumping my fist the entire episode. It's nice to know this movie resonates across time, national borders, and race. There's an interview with Ivan Dixon where he sort of dismisses his directorial career, but allows that this one was all right. I wish he was alive to see people find this movie On that note, I think a large part of why this movie doesn't have more of a following is it's unavailability. You can find it floating online of course, but the last home video release was in 2005 on DVD. The film was recently restored (I was supposed to see a screening as part of an Ivan Dixon retrospective in LA but it was canceled due to the fires), so hopefully a new release is coming soon. I liked that note that Will made about not wanting to separate it from the blaxploitation films of the time. For anyone interested in that era and the stories they allowed to be told I'd recommend Elvis Mitchell's Netflix doc Is That Black Enough for You?!?, a great overview that contextualizes all those films and gives them their proper due. Anyways can't overstate how much I enjoyed the episode. This movie means a lot to me, and I'm glad to hear it discussed so thoughtfully

Jeremy Hawkins

Great episode! If you're doing the Sorkin movies, I think that the one that was made for Michael and Us, even more so than the Trial of the Chicago 7, would have to be Being the Ricardos. It's the dopey epochal statement about politics and culture that Aaron genuinely holds in the highest regards, but also doesn't seem to understand anymore than me, a guy who always went to do my homework or get ready for bed when I love Lucy came on TV. The whole talk about nudging vs abundance is very fun because it is just trying to give Malibu Stacy a new hat and hoping that people believe you when they say that things are getting better when they can feel it getting worse. The solutions would involve breaking with capitalism system and building a socialist one with solid goals, an understandable program that an average person can participate in not as an individual, or a consumer, but as a member of the working class, and an organization that would actually be able to lead people.

Shane

Pretty sure The Simpsons are my main reference to Hogans Heroes.

Chris Burke

I have seen one episode of Hogan’s Heroes. It was on Nick at Night at my American grandparents’ house when my family went to visit them in the late ‘90s. After seeing references to it on The Simpsons and other shows written by Gen-Xers and late Boomers, it was a tremendous disappointment.

Kramer O'Neill

You youngsters hating on Barry Levinson were born after the revolution – you'll never know the wondrous sensation of turning on the TV in the early '90s to find somebody had taken millions from NBC to make a "cop" show, and instead delivered one long homage to the French New Wave.

Ethan

99 baby with a boomer dad checking in: I’ve seen many episodes of Hogan’s Heroes

piranhaplant

Thanks for sharing that Liza Featherstone article. I think there's no better indication of how full of shit a lot of "radical" academics are than their silence on the pro-Palestinian campus protest crackdown.

Kramer O'Neill

Never really watched Hogan's Heroes (dug that Paul Schrader movie though!), but didn't it launch a whole lot of talent? I feel like the imdb runs through it, including, if one believes The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg (his future editor cut The Spook, which is kinda neat).

um yikes

"Profokiev's Troika, you know the tune i'm talking about, right?"

Jackson Ayres

I was introduced to SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR, the novel, as a graduate student taking a class on Black Nationalist literature. Years later, as a teacher myself, I taught a course on exploitation cinema and included the film version on my syllabus. Paying it forward!

Jackson Ayres

The conversation about movie trailers and their voiceovers has me thinking I'll nominate IN A WORLD ... (2013) for the next superdelegate vote.

Nate

The quintessential 90s comedy trailer is lampooned perfectly in Tropic thunder with the Jack Black character’s Klumps ripoff

Ben Nadeau

there are a number of hairlines present in this film that were simply not allowed to exist after the 70’s

Susan Hecht

I’m a GenXer who loved Hogan’s Heroes when it played in the after school time slot (along with old westerns like Bonanza and old sitcoms like Gilligan’s Island). Ivan Dixon as Kinch the radio guy was great on that show! Never realized he had an illustrious directing career as well.

Buzzkill Squad

Nudge logics are still alive and well in UK politics (even if no longer formally encoded into the machinery of state) and currently being used by the Labour government to justify a harsh programme of cuts to disability benefits that the Lib-Con coalition that set up the 'nudge unit' to rationalise austerity could only dream of getting away with