Michael and Us Luke Savage and Will Sloan, Jacobin
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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
Exclusive subscriber-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview
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#524 - Studio Sucky, Part 1
After inhabiting the White House but before examining the Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin created a show that sought nothing less than to fix the most important American institution of them all: Saturday Night Live. We launch what will eventually become a multi-episode discussion of STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP (2006-7).
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PREVIEW - #523 - From the Freezer to the Plate
You've seen Air, you've seen Blackberry, and are you ready for the Corporate I.P. genre to reach its baroque period? We discuss Jerry Seinfeld's UNFROSTED (2024), a comedy about the invention of the pop-tart, and attempt an ideological reading of a comedian who has stubbornly resisted ideology.
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PREVIEW - #522 - The Everything Company (w/ David Moscrop and Mitchell Thompson)
A new campaign to boycott Canada's biggest grocery chain raises a plethora of issues about how monopolies work in Canada, and what role governments and consumers should play in combatting them. On this special episode, Luke welcomes writers David Moscrop and Mitchell Thompson to discuss the Loblaws boycott and Canada's grocery-store oligarchs, the Weston Family.
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#521 - The Nazarene Troublemaker
In the election year of 2004, an ultraviolent subtitled right-wing Christian movie became a genuine cultural phenomenon and political lightning-rod. We finally discuss THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004) and theology according to Mel Gibson. PLUS: the White House Correspondents Dinner, the Columbia encampment, and the one optimistic takeaway of a discouraging week.
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"This Is How Power Protects Itself" by Jack Mirkinson - https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/columbia-ccny-cuny-protest-nypd-police-brutality/
"Mel Gibson's Martyrdom Complex" by Frank Rich - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/movies/mel-gibson-s-martyrdom-complex.html
"The Gospel According to Mel" by Christopher Hitchens - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/03/hitchens-201102
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PREVIEW - #520 - Pastor Dave Goes to Washington (w/ Alex Shephard)
We had to do it. We heard that GOD'S NOT DEAD: WE THE PEOPLE (2021), the fourth entry in the Evangelical film franchise, goes all-in on the culture wars of the Trump years. We welcome back our official God's Not Dead correspondent Alex Shephard to discuss the wackiest entry yet.
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#519 - Triangle of Badness
If all of our current class hierarchies were eliminated, what would replace them? This question is at the core of TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022), the art-house hit that show the limits of being an "equal-opportunity offender." PLUS: campus protests, keffiyeh bans, and the state of the publishing industry.
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"No One Buys Books" by Elle Griffin - https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
"The Delusional Triangle of Sadness" by Armond White - https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/the-delusional-triangle-of-sadness/
"Triangle of Sadness" review by Richard Brody - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/triangle-of-sadness-reviewed-were-on-a-yacht-and-were-puking
"Triangle of Sadness" review by Gabe Klinger - https://letterboxd.com/gabeklinger/film/triangle-of-sadness/
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The best. Join the boys each week for some fun, banter, politics, film criticism and the end of history (drink). Listening gives you immediate membership to Michael and Us Nation; a nation to which you will gladly pledge your allegiance.
Great Time to be a Mooremon!
Being raised in Mooremonism, that is, The Church of Michael Moore of the Slacker-Day Uprising doesn’t always feel like it reaps the most rewards in the modern day. I was starting to feel like the spirit of prophetic progressive wisdom that brought us core texts like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Roger and Me” was dying out and getting a little old (69 years old, that is). Lo and behold I’ve been brought back into the fold by two podcasters, their absolute mutual love of cinema, their propensity for naming their apartments (recording studios) after the “dead gods” of early 2000s liberal progressivism, and their mutual admiration of Bob Dylan (pronounced in their natural Canadian tongue: Bawb Dill-awn). The faith lives on!