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	Podcast:		Jacobin Radio
	Episode:		Michael and Us: The Forrest Gump Episode
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:58:47
	Publish Date:		2022-07-06 09:00:54
	Description:		It's an extremely discouraging political moment for our neighbors in the United States, so we decided the time was right to finally examine one of the quintessential cinematic articulations of American exceptionalism, FORREST GUMP (1994). Is life, in fact, like a box of chocolates? We investigate. "The Man Who Loved Presidents: On John Meacham" by Thomas Frank - https://harpers.org/archive/2021/07/jon-meacham-thomas-frank-soul-of-america/ "Tom Hanks Explains It All" by David Marchese - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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