Audrey and Patrick welcome Melanie C. to talk about second chances, disillusionment with electoral politics, and Michael Clayton. Covid lockdown, parental support and medication-assisted treatment helped Melanie find recovery from a fifteen year opiate addiction. Reading Edward Said in college began her education on Palestine and her advocacy for humanity and liberation.
We shouldn’t demand that revolution and resistance come in the ideological manner we prefer. We aren’t okay with our comfort coming at the expense of human lives. As a practice, Melanie suggests that when it comes to social and political critique, we also put mirror on ourselves: how are we contributing to our communities, to our civics, beyond posting?
Follow Melanie on Twitter: @benzostraydogs
Her Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/benzostraydogs/
Opening quote by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, about Starship Troopers
Anna Scanlon’s Substack: https://substack.com/@rockfoils
Main show theme is “Strangers” by Midnight Prisms
Music and lyrics by Alicia Beck
Music and production by Max Foreman
Mastering by Little Castle Sound
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Main logo art by Patrick Mitchell and Angelina Harvey (@graffitifucks on Instagram)
