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Michael and Us

#498 - Eat the Rich

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We discuss THE MENU (2022) and its place in the context of the current wave of "eat the rich" cinema. PLUS: we discuss Walter Isaacson's new hagiography of Elon Musk, and Joe Biden's wildly successful "I'm fit for office" press conference. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

You know, I watched when it was a little bit more good for.

0:04.3

I watched when it was live the Ashley Simpson S&L performance.

0:13.8

Do you remember that?

0:14.5

The one where Ashley Simpson was lip-syncing.

0:17.0

Definitely dating myself with this reference.

0:19.2

But back before we had social media, that was one of one of the moments for that year.

0:25.2

You know what I mean?

0:26.0

Every year got a couple of like huge moments.

0:28.9

Now we get one every day, but that was like one of the ones that people talked about for years and years.

0:34.3

Yeah, something that, you know, our Zoomer listeners won't have experienced is,

0:39.0

is, yeah, there used to be a scarcity of viral clips. You know, it used to be going to EBOM's world.

0:44.8

And I feel like this happened for five years or more, where you were just watching the same

0:49.5

clips on EBOM's world and places like that. And it was, yeah, it was Ashley Simpson where she started

0:55.5

lip syncing. And then I guess the band was playing a different song than she thought and she started

0:59.9

dancing around. Wasn't like Jude Law also on that episode? Yeah, Jude Law was the host and that

1:06.1

musical performance faded out awkwardly into a commercial. And then at the end of the show, the two of them were

1:11.6

on stage together and Jude Law was like, well, I've just been talking to Ashley and, uh, and uh, she had

1:16.8

some acid reflux and that threw everybody off. Isn't that right, Ashley? Yeah, that's right. Nothing to

1:21.6

see here. Anyway, good night. And then, you know, the official story crumbled pretty quickly after that. Did you see the Janet Jackson

1:28.2

Super Bowl thing live? Were you watching that? I never saw any of this stuff live, but that was the

1:33.4

second one that came to mind of these kind of clips that were, yeah, viral not for a day or a few days.

1:39.1

Six months. I mean, six months, definitely, but then they remained as these deep cultural reference points

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