Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin's Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic for a roundtable discussion on EMPIRE RECORDS (1995). We proffer some theories about why this attempt to hit the Gen X zeitgeist resonated more strongly with millennials, and how its depiction of alt-culture proved life-changing for at least one of the panelists.
Our previous symposium on You've Got Mail (1998) - https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us/176-youve-got-mail-a-michael-us-symposium-w-meagan-day-and-branko-marcetic
Meagan at the Oxford Union - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnqmgVaOjc
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
En liten tjänst av I'm With Friends. Finns även på engelska.