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Michael and Us

#606 - Sound of Freedom Fries

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

From immigration anxieties to "enhanced interrogation" to globalism to elite sex trafficking, TAKEN (2008) is a virtual dictionary of right-wing grievances - including some that weren't even popular yet. We discuss the most entertaining reactionary action movie of its time. PLUS: Mark Carney, Mahmoud Khalil, Mel Gibson, and of course, Donald Trump. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus See Will present VEERANA at the Fox Theatre on April 8 at 9pm - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/important-cinema-club-masterpiece-classics-veerana/ Luke's Substack - https://www.lukewsavage.com/

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0:00.0

California has a lot of problems that sort of baffled the mind as far as why they do things.

0:08.0

And then in the events like this, you sort of look, well, is it on purpose?

0:14.0

Which, it's an insane thing to think.

0:17.0

But one begins to ponder whether or not there is a purpose in mind.

0:22.6

His expression.

0:23.6

Look at his eyes.

0:24.6

Do they want the state empty?

0:26.6

I don't know.

0:27.6

Well, Mel, there's already talking.

0:29.6

We played a couple of sound bites of reimagining the way rebuilding occurs.

0:34.6

And obviously there's a great need for high-density housing in California and across

0:40.7

the country. That's a big push by the climate folks. And you're already hearing rumbling of that.

0:46.2

In this case, like goodbye, single-family homes. Hello, high-density housing.

0:52.8

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's a...

0:56.1

Bell Gibson thinks a lot about housing issues.

1:00.9

Nothing gets his goat, like, the housing density discourse.

1:06.2

Reminds me the old cattle barons clearing people off the land.

1:13.6

I don't know. When you were a kid in the like 1960s or whatever.

1:17.6

Conspiracy theories and everything else, but it just seemed a little convenient that there was no water and that the wind conditions are right and that there are people ready and willing and able to

1:28.9

start fires and are they commissioned to do so or are they just acting on their own volition I don't know

1:34.0

this rules they seem pretty well equipped some of these people that they're catching a lot of a lot of

1:39.3

questions a lot of questions Mel well anyway just some questions there from Mel Gibson about the recent California fires.

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