#172 - Eternal Recurrence

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The theory that times of strife produce great art is put to the test with Jay Roach's pandemic movie COASTAL ELITES (2020), and fails resoundingly. Bette Midler, Issa Rae, Dan Levy, and others deliver monologues excoriating the Cheeto-in-Chief while making clear that the title "Coastal Elites" is only barely ironic. PLUS: the death of RBG, the collapse of LaserQuest, and the unlikely return of Screw Magazine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Thurth, he's a crook, he's a president.
0:05.0	Crime after crime, when he's gone, where the book they will draw at him.
0:12.0	Crime after crime, he's insane, narcissistic can't help himself.
0:19.0	Crime after crime. Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
0:25.0	Luke Savage, hey everyone.
0:26.6	We talk a lot about franchise reboots and nostalgic brand resuscitations on this show.
0:34.9	And I was excited this week when I saw that my all-time favorite brand is getting
0:40.0	revived for the 21st century. Yes, I'm talking about Screw Magazine. That is the New York-based
0:47.4	alt weekly that ran from 1969 to 2003. It was a sort of consumer reports for sex at a time when, well, there was no internet.
0:58.9	There had never been a magazine quite like it, and it was run by a garrulous and vulgar publisher
1:05.9	by the name of Al Goldstein.
1:08.0	Donald, enough already.
1:09.3	I am sick of your fucking picture. I'm sick of your fucking picture.
1:11.2	I'm sick of your book.
1:12.4	And what really has a fuse together to make me pissed off as I spent an afternoon
1:18.1	at Trump, Trump Castle, that's right.
1:21.4	I saw all those ads.
1:22.2	I thought it'd be great.
1:23.2	Your room service stinks.
1:24.6	I had locks and eggs for 895.
1:26.4	It was second rate.
1:31.3	Donald Trump, I'm sick of you and everything you stand for. And like a lot of things in the early 21st century, it was rendered totally outmoded by the
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