Hi, everyone. Co-host Luke here with just a minor production note before we get to the meat of today's show.

As some of you will know, if you've been listening to our recent episodes, my esteemed co-host, Mr. Will Sloan, is currently on the other side of the world.

He's in the land down under, so thus not able to join me at the Gore Lieberman Studios to record.

I did not want to make Will, you know, do an

episode over Zoom while he's trying to enjoy himself and get a little bit of time off, particularly

given the ferocity of some of the things that we've been subjecting ourselves to for the

show over the last few weeks. But don't fret. I've got a great co-host in Alex Shepard of the New

Republic. I'm sure many of you know his work already. And of course, he's been a past guest on the show.

So we had a great movie that was actually Alex's suggestion. I think this is going to be the first

of, well, at least several more episodes in this vein. I feel like

we have discovered a very rich deposit of material here. Off the top, Alex's head, like mine, has been

very much with the kind of Trump-Dissantus fight. Alex has also written extensively about Tucker

Carlson. So since both of these things have been in the news, we spent a fair amount of time talking about that off the top in a pretty, you know, fairly serious straight politics discussion.

And then we proceeded for the remainder of the show to descend into madness.

I was in physical agony watching this movie, but also ecstasy as well.

You will hear by the end of the discussion just our madness and also joy at discussing the

Kevin Sorboe Christian Wright evangelical movie, God's Not Dead. Just as a final note, if you are listening to this on a free

feed somewhere, a reminder that the Michael and Us podcast does have a Patreon, patreon.com

slash Michael and Us, where you can subscribe for the low, low price of just five Yankee dollars

a month to get a whole extra episode a week, plus a bunch of other bonus goodies that we put on there.

So that's more than twice the content you can get on the free feed.

Patreon.com slash Mike Linus.

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