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Michael and Us

#645 - NatSec: Shock and Terror

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Society & Culture

4.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025), Ice Cube stars as a Homeland Security analyst who uncovers a Deep State surveillance plot AND foils an alien invasion - all without ever leaving his Zoom window. We watched the certified Bad Movie that's sweeping the nation. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus Luke's substack - https://www.lukewsavage.com/ Come see Will will at one of the stops on his book tour: LOS ANGELES - August 30, book signing and Q&A with Dana Gould at Artbook - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ed-wood-made-in-hollywood-usa-la-book-launch-with-will-sloan-dana-gould-tickets-1560019523389 LOS ANGELES - August 30, "Ed Wood on VHS" at WHAMMY - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ed-wood-on-vhs-feat-the-sinister-urge-1960-presented-by-will-sloan-tickets-1568174324619 CHICAGO - August 31, "Trust Fall" at Davis Theater - https://davistheater.com/special_events/trust-fall/ TORONTO - September 12, Glen or Glenda screening at the Paradise Theatre - https://paradiseonbloor.com/movies/glen-or-glenda/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Going to the movie

0:01.2

Double feature

0:02.8

Going to the movie

0:04.6

Creepy creaker

0:06.2

Going to the movie

0:08.0

Old Plantation

0:09.8

Going to the movie

0:11.4

Sex chloritation

0:13.1

I was looking back upon my checkered life today

0:16.0

And I realized that

0:17.3

I think every movie that I saw in high school

0:20.5

I remember where I saw it I remember what I think every movie that I saw in high school, I remember where I saw it.

0:22.6

I remember what I was feeling that day.

0:24.6

I was remembering like how limited your world is in high school.

0:29.6

And I think looking back, movies must have been the way that I asserted the most independence,

0:35.6

intellectually and otherwise, you know, before I

0:39.1

was able to move out of the house. It's like so much of your life as a child is so regimented.

0:44.1

So much of it is outside of your control. You have to go to school. There are often very strict

0:49.5

borders on where you can travel. But I think, yeah, I realized that movies for me were the thing. It's like,

0:56.0

this was the self-directed, this was the self-guided field of inquiry that was all mine. And it felt

1:01.8

kind of like auditioning for adult life as well, because it was, oh, this is the day that I can

1:06.6

go downtown and see Grizzly Man, you know? Nobody else at the school knows who Werner Herzog is.

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