#521 - The Nazarene Troublemaker

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the election year of 2004, an ultraviolent subtitled right-wing Christian movie became a genuine cultural phenomenon and political lightning-rod. We finally discuss THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004) and theology according to Mel Gibson. PLUS: the White House Correspondents Dinner, the Columbia encampment, and the one optimistic takeaway of a discouraging week. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "This Is How Power Protects Itself" by Jack Mirkinson - https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/columbia-ccny-cuny-protest-nypd-police-brutality/ "Mel Gibson's Martyrdom Complex" by Frank Rich - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/movies/mel-gibson-s-martyrdom-complex.html "The Gospel According to Mel" by Christopher Hitchens - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/03/hitchens-201102 The Mel Gibson/Diane Sawyer interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ecnfe530IE

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0:00.0	We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show each time that we walk into this
0:04.8	Augustin famous studio. We're starting out from scratch after a run of 20 years. And so we hope
0:09.8	that you don't mind that our producer was not doing good. We hope that you don't mind that their
0:14.1	producer was not doing. We hope that you don't mind that that producer was not doing both.
0:18.8	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Luke Savage is with me. Listen, I'm not, I, I just have to say, Luke and I have just been watching Studio 60 on the sunset strip for an upcoming episode.
0:32.0	This little teaser for you all. Yeah, it's like we're just, I don't know. I'm vibrating. I'm just having such a good time.
0:38.1	Like, I've never really been into the West Wing.
0:41.6	I've never watched it seriously or ironically, except for this podcast.
0:45.3	Unlike me, for whom it's my favorite show.
0:47.4	But I have seen all of Studio 60 on the sunset strip and revisiting it now.
0:52.6	Like, oh, I mean, we were actually going to record on it
0:56.5	today but we realized very quickly like this is such a rich text like we might just watch all of it
1:02.0	if we just made Michael and us about Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip for the next month and covered every
1:08.4	episode I'd be okay with that I I mean, we just saw folks,
1:11.9	you know, fans of Studio 60, us in the Studio 60 community will know what I'm talking about when
1:17.9	I say that we have Gilbert and Sullivan in our heads right now. Oh my God. You'll be the very model
1:22.3	of a modern network TV show. So I'd never like I am a card carrying credentialed sorkanologist, okay, but I've
1:29.6	never seen Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. So as soon as it started, I kind of couldn't believe
1:34.7	that I was actually seeing it. Like, it only exists in myth to me. And watching it felt very
1:40.8	strange and uncanny. It was like watching something that was a memory of a past life.
1:47.0	I feel like I've seen it, even though I haven't. It is kind of awesome just watching it again,
1:51.5	where it has this, it has this swagger to it in the early episodes of like, this is the next big show.
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