#565 - Morbid Symptoms

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

First, Will reports on visiting that most American of landmarks, Graceland. Then, we take the temperature of the U.S. presidential election in its waning days, and learn some interesting facts about the "Canadian Victims of Communism" memorial. Finally, we discuss I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD (1989), a documentary about one of the greatest pieces of performance art of all time: the Andy Kaufman/Jerry Lawler wrestling feud. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus ST. CATHARINE'S - See Luke moderate the book launch event for Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics. Friday, October 11, 7pm, Niagara Artists Centre - https://www.ubcpress.ca/st-catharines-book-launch-for-shifting-gears TORONTO - See Will introduce a rare screening of the Jackie Chan film Fantasy Mission Force. Tuesday, November 5, 7pm, Fox Theatre - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/important-cinema-club-masterpiece-classics-fantasy-mission-force/ "The #Resistance Is Back. Be Afraid." by Katherine Krueger - https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/resistance-kamala-harris-online/ Kaufman and Lawler on Letterman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9PGJslS6A&t=1s&ab_channel=Letterman

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0:00.0	I'll tell you one for the money.
0:01.8	Two for the show.
0:03.1	You need to get rid of now.
0:04.3	Go ahead.
0:05.2	But don't you?
0:06.6	Step on my piece.
0:07.6	We're choosing.
0:09.2	I tell you, I open up my social media this morning.
0:13.1	What a cursed sentence that is.
0:15.4	Yeah.
0:15.8	But the first thing I see is variety has a list of the top 100 horror films because we are in October.
0:22.8	Spooktober as I call it.
0:24.2	Shocktober.
0:25.4	Shocktober.
0:25.8	How the cool kids call it.
0:27.1	I know this routine.
0:30.1	What they do is every two months there's an article like this that's the top 100 whatever
0:35.5	genre of movies.
0:36.5	They just keep cycling through the same three genres.
0:39.6	And they are designed to make people upset and angry
0:42.5	with their ridiculous rankings.
0:44.4	Well, we've talked about, you know, this style of Listicle before.
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