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Michael and Us

#706 - Mother Teresa Conga Line

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Society & Culture

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

No era hits like the late-late-late-Clinton Era. We discuss the shameless Oscar bait that didn't catch anything, PAY IT FORWARD (2000), in which a precocious boy creates a pyramid scheme for kindness. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus TORONTO - See Luke interview Jacobin Magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara at the 2025 Ellen Meiskins Wood Lecture. Wednesday, April 22 at 6pm, Toronto Metropolitan University, George Vari Engineering and Computer Centre. Get tickets: https://broadbentinstitute.ca/events/2026-ellen-meiksins-wood-lecture/

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deadline that President Trump has set, APM, has threatened to destroy a civilization.

0:06.2

How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger up?

0:10.1

Well, we are back. It has been quite a week. Crazy stuff. That's because it's been March

0:18.1

madness. And on the show today, we break it all down for you.

0:22.2

Once again, the best college hoops teams prove there's nothing like March Madness to get our jaws dropping, our hearts racing, and our brackets bustling.

0:30.1

Congratulations to the Bruins and the Wolverines.

0:32.5

Excuse me, it's our brackets busting, which is very important because when something makes Bill Clinton bust,

0:38.6

we want to pay attention to it. Oh, my God. Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with. Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. Yeah, I don't know. So we just live in a Polverhoeven movie now, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Where do you want to start? I don't know. I mean, we've kind of, we kind of stepped on the bit already.

0:55.6

But yeah, the joint spectacle of like Donald Trump doing his like Easter address from the balcony of the White House flanked by Melania and the Easter Bunny talking about the war. And it's like, I guess that was a little more lynchian than Verhoveny, although, you know, maybe. But yeah, like two former Democratic

1:11.6

presidents tweeting about March Madness in this like stupid effusive, pre-programmed on tweet

1:17.2

deck sort of way, the same day that the president is like, yeah, I'm going to just annihilate an entire

1:22.2

civilization of 90 million people. Which he didn't because Taco Trump, Trump always chickens out.

1:29.0

Okay, I mean, this is the other thing.

1:31.0

Fucking right after that, Chris Murphy, the fuck, the senator from Connecticut, he posted,

1:35.6

it appears Trump has just agreed to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz, a history

1:39.4

changing win for Iran.

1:40.5

The level of incompetence is both stunning and heartbreaking.

1:43.4

And Schumer literally did like a Taco Trump video. I don't knowence is both stunning and heartbreaking. And Schumer literally did

1:44.7

like a Taco Trump video. I don't know. I have made my career on criticizing liberals from the

1:50.4

left and this honestly left me kind of speechless. What the fuck do you even say? Like this is your

1:56.7

opposition, folks. Congratulations. Before we go further, I would actually like to do a follow-up to one of our

2:02.9

episodes last week, specifically the episode on Crocodile Dundee. Okay. And you're going to say

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