#334 - Just Asking Questions

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dinesh D'Souza believes he has uncovered shocking proof that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 election in 2000 MULES (2022), a documentary so shoddy that even right-wing media is hesitant to publicize it. We follow the trail of Dinesh's conspiracy theory to its inevitable endpoint: a contempt for democracy itself. PLUS: we discuss the billionaire whose name is on everyone's lips, Elon Musk.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Luke here. Well, it's that time of the show where I actually remember to mention that Michael and us has a Patreon.
0:12.3	That's right, even though we rarely remember to advertise that fact to you, you can find an extra episode every single week at patreon.com slash micha and us for five yankee dollars a
0:23.7	month, which is about $6.45 in the queen's currency, if you happen to be listening from Canada.
0:30.7	In addition to the free episodes, we also publish bonus content, including but not limited
0:35.8	to interviews that I do in my day job at Jacobin
0:38.7	and other treats. So if you enjoy the free episodes and want to give your old buddies Will
0:43.5	and Luke some love, go to patreon.com slash Michael and us and enjoy twice the content every week.
0:49.4	You'd also be doing us a huge solid by rating the show on your podcast app of choice. And if you have a second,
0:54.9	leaving a review. Apparently, that helps us game the algorithms. On with the show.
0:59.8	The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man
1:07.1	to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean of Ukraine.
1:15.9	Iraq, too. Anyway. 75.
1:23.7	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here as always with. Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.
1:28.6	I was horrified by an article I saw in the Wall Street Journal this morning, your favorite publication.
1:34.0	The title was, there's a new media mogul tearing up Hollywood. It's about Warner Brothers new CEO,
1:40.7	David Zazlov. He just started at Warner Brothers, and the opening of the article is,
1:45.9	Days into his role as CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, David Zazlov gathered movie studio executives
1:51.8	and grilled them about a recent string of box office flops, including Cry Macho,
1:56.5	a Clint Eastwood neo-Western. Warner Brothers executives conceded they had doubted the movie
2:01.7	would turn a profit. Why, Mr. Zazlov asked, was cry macho made if they had reservations?
2:07.4	When they replied that Mr. Eastwood had given the studio many hits and never delivered a movie
2:11.5	late or over budget, he- When they explained who Clint Eastwood was, he answered,
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