#675 - Where the Lions Weep

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Society & Culture

4.5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ten years before Siri and quarter-century before Grok, Steven Spielberg and the late Stanley Kubrick considered a new form of humanity in A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001). We discuss a meeting of the minds between two very distinctive authorial voices. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "The Best of Both Worlds" by Jonathan Rosenbaum - https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/01/the-best-of-both-worlds/ "A Matter of Life and Death" by Jonathan Rosenbaum - https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/05/a-matter-of-life-and-death-ai-artificial-intelligence-tk/ Call for submissions: "The Journal of Stoogeological Studies Vol. 2" - https://x.com/WillSloanEsq/status/1995213884635193456

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0:00.0	I want to kick off by just showing you a video that...
0:05.0	Okay, you all can't see this, but what Will is showing me is demonic.
0:14.0	Oh, is he gonna sing?
0:16.0	Oh, shit.
0:19.0	And then he... And then he danced for you.
0:24.6	He's singing Mr. Bojangles.
0:30.0	And that was Louis Armstrong before.
0:34.1	Shut up.
0:35.3	In the way.
0:37.1	And I tell you, I can't deny it. jumped up behind in the race it's a whole concert
0:42.3	many times
0:43.3	he's doing frank
0:47.3	and I will never forget
0:49.3	the remarkable words
0:51.3	of the great playwright
0:53.3	Eugene O'Neill said in Hebrew.
0:57.0	I love the way this is edited.
1:01.5	Snapshots of perfection.
1:02.8	That this heart of mine embraces all day through.
1:12.3	Boo.
1:17.9	That was Kevin Spacey performing in Tel Aviv, and the moment that killed me, I hadn't actually watched the whole clip before I showed it to Luke.
1:20.5	The moment that it was him in front of a picture of a younger version of himself with
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