#684 - Michael & Me
Michael and Us
Luke Savage and Will Sloan
4.5 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, here's my first question. Do you think it's a little dangerous hanging out guns in a bank? |
| 0:09.2 | Well, welcome to Mike Winos. I'm Will Sloan. Here as always with Luke Savage. Welcome back, |
| 0:14.4 | everyone. I'm going to say, I am particularly excited for this one because it feels like a real |
| 0:19.7 | return to our roots. And we have a lot of you to thank for this one because it feels like a real return to our roots. And we have a lot of you to |
| 0:22.9 | thank for this one because we could not find this film that we just finished watching anywhere. |
| 0:29.0 | And Michael on Us Nation, as has so often been the case, delivered. So I am very keen to get into |
| 0:35.0 | this one. But we do have a few items for you all off the top. |
| 0:39.7 | Well, I have an article here that I'd like to use as a springboard for some discussion. |
| 0:44.5 | I've been reading the January 15th, 2026 issue of the New York Review of Books. |
| 0:50.8 | That's right. |
| 0:51.7 | No cracked magazine for me. |
| 0:53.9 | No tiger beat. No cracked magazine for me. No Tiger Beat. No National Geographic kids over here. |
| 0:58.0 | That's right. Will Sloan, age 37, has finally decided to become a man of letters. |
| 1:04.0 | But I was reading a review of Ross Doubethat's new book, or is it Ross Duthat? How do you pronounce the gentleman's name? I believe it is Douthat, but I think Duthat's new book or is it Ross Duthet? How do you pronounce the gentleman's name? |
| 1:11.8 | I believe it is Douthat but I think Duthat is also is considered acceptable. |
| 1:17.5 | All right, well I'm going to say Douthat. If there are any super fans of the New York |
| 1:21.3 | Times columnist who want to correct me, DEMs are open. |
| 1:24.4 | Buddy, you're looking at one. |
| 1:25.6 | Well then you'll be interested in this review of his new book, Believe Why Everyone |
| 1:30.4 | Should Beard by one Robert P. Baird. Now, I'm not really going to get into the book, |
| 1:35.1 | don't really care about the book, but Robert Baird identifies something in Doubeth, or Duthutth, |
| 1:41.9 | as the case may be, tomato, that's been kind of gnawing at me a bit lately |
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