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How Robocop Predicted The Present| Weekender Teaser

This is the first 15 minutes of our weekly Patreon series The Weekender To access the full episode, additional content, and support the podcast, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast  Jared and Nick watched Paul Verhoeven's seminal '80s action flick "Robocop" to trace the subversive political statements throughout the film. Set in the Reagan era, Robocop was incredibly prescient as it predicted the militarization and privatization of our police forces, while capturing the evil corporate ethos that has been super charged in the subsequent decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcast on:
23 Jul 2021

*This is the first 15 minutes of our weekly Patreon series The Weekender*

To access the full episode, additional content, and support the podcast, become a patron at http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast 

Jared and Nick watched Paul Verhoeven's seminal '80s action flick "Robocop" to trace the subversive political statements throughout the film. Set in the Reagan era, Robocop was incredibly prescient as it predicted the militarization and privatization of our police forces, while capturing the evil corporate ethos that has been super charged in the subsequent decades.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices