#687 - Homeland Empire

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Society & Culture

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We finally discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025), which takes place in a dystopian America not too dissimilar from the current one. PLUS: The Conservative movement reclaims an artist we were really happy to be rid of. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "Chaos: Behind the Scenes of Amazon's Melania Trump Documentary" by Tessa Stuart - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-behind-the-scenes-1235505208/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Michael
0:02.0	Yeah
0:03.0	What is you good for?
0:06.0	Absolutely
0:07.0	Nothing
0:08.0	Uh-huh
0:09.0	Welcome to Michael and Us.
0:11.0	I'm Will Sloan, here as always with
0:12.0	Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.
0:14.0	What do we know about the conservative movement?
0:16.0	We know that artistically it is about the classics.
0:19.0	Paying respect to the great artistic tradition that has been corrupted by postmodernism,
0:25.3	trendy diversions like feminism, critical race theory.
0:28.5	Frankfurt School.
0:29.2	Yeah.
0:29.8	It's about getting back to the classics.
0:32.1	And that's why we have seen the return of Brett Ratner.
0:35.8	I wasn't sure where that was going.
0:38.3	Brett Ratner.
0:38.9	That's pretty good.
0:39.7	Brett Ratner's back, folks.
0:41.5	Reject modernity, embrace tradition.
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