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Michael and Us

#272 - Radioactive Dreams

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cinema's most enduring symbol of the perils of nuclear proliferation first crawled out of Tokyo Bay. We discuss how the original GODZILLA (1954) channeled the mood of its time. PLUS: how the media talks about the congressional wrangling over the reconciliation bill.

Transcript

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0:00.0

History shows again again and again how many points up the folly of men

0:18.0

Godzilla History shows again and again how nature points up the folly open.

0:29.6

Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

0:33.6

Luke Savage, hello everyone.

0:34.6

One of my favorite tweets of all time, one I think about constantly, is that old Bill Corbett

0:39.8

tweet where he was shopping for bananas.

0:42.6

He posted a picture of a banana that he got in the store, which just had a little sticker

0:46.1

on it that had like the Star Wars logo.

0:48.0

And he tweeted, why is Star Wars on my banana?

0:51.1

Why does my banana have to be Star Wars?

0:53.1

Yeah, yeah. And I thought about that because a couple of weeks ago, I was out at the corner store,

0:58.5

you know, getting stuff that you get at a corner store.

1:01.3

And one of the things I got was dental floss picks.

1:04.5

And this means nothing for our listening audience,

1:07.2

but this is a visual lay that I have here just for Luke,

1:09.9

because I want him to see.

1:10.9

Now, these are, these are Star Wars floss picks.

1:17.4

The brand is called Firefly, but it's got Star Wars.

1:20.7

It's got a Star Wars character on it who's got a helmet.

1:23.5

And an orange lightsaber and their orange flosspicks as well.

1:27.5

Right, right.

1:27.9

So I got this because this was the only floss pick option at the store.

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