#344 - Socialism with Disneyan Characteristics

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz Lightyear origin movie LIGHTYEAR (2022) has become a cultural lightning-rod in the right-wing moral panic over "grooming." We discuss this controversy (which is ridiculous, by the way), and then discuss the movie, in which we can learn a little bit about how the Disney Company views itself. Support the National Network of Abortion Funds - https://abortionfunds.org/ Abortion Funds in Every State - https://donations4abortion.com/ The Repro Legal Defense Fund - https://reprolegaldefensefund.org/

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Will here. We talked about this subject in greater length on our last Patreon episode,
0:05.9	and I'm not sure if a goofy podcast about the Buzz Lightyear movie is the ideal place for much more.
0:12.8	But the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is still the issue that's at the forefront of so many people's minds.
0:20.7	So I think we'd be remiss to not acknowledge it at the start of this free episode.
0:25.2	It's obviously a very scary and frustrating thing
0:28.2	when such an unpopular decision can be mandated by an institution
0:32.5	as illegitimate as the Supreme Court and affects so many people's lives.
0:38.9	It's doubly scary and frustrating when the nominally liberal institutions that should be fighting back act so powerless.
0:44.6	There's no silver lining or good news here, but there is the knowledge that this decision
0:49.2	does not represent the wishes of the vast majority of people in the U.S. and beyond, and the hope that maybe we can
0:55.2	all work together, even as institutions fail us. To that end, we've included in the show notes
1:00.5	some links where you can support abortion funds in the U.S. Please consider donating.
1:06.0	And now, on a completely different note, on with this episode about, yes, the year movie welcome to michael and us i'm welcome to michael and us i'm wilf sloane but for her in miles and miles of your nice one bad.
1:29.4	Welcome to Michael and Us. I'm Will Sloan. Here as always with.
1:32.8	Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. This is, I suppose, in some ways, a special episode
1:37.8	in the tradition of our Rise of Skywalker episode. Realheads will remember. This is a Mike Linus at the movies episode.
1:46.7	There is just feet for me at this moment, a bag of popcorn that we got and didn't finish while
1:51.7	at the movie. I, by contrast, had my entire bag of large popcorn, and I feel very bad about it.
1:57.8	I've been trying to be on the straight and narrow lately. I've been trying to
2:00.8	lose that last 10 pounds. And I feel like I've just set myself completely off course. But as this
2:06.4	movie teaches us, there really is no course, is there? The course is the one that you take.
2:11.2	That's right. Everything happens for a reason. Anyway, I've been pressuring Will to do an episode on
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