Current Affairs/Michael and Us Crossover Special: The Westboro Baptist Church

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Nathan and Aisling are joined by Luke Savage and Will Sloan of the political movie podcast Michael and Us. Together, they ruminate on the three-part documentary series The Most Hated Family in America, which followed the extremist Westboro Baptist Church from 2007 to 2019, and which unwittingly created a time capsule that offers a strange insight into the liberal viewpoint on religion and dogma in the 2000s. (Content warning: we briefly quote some of the homophobic slurs used by the WBC.) Follow Michael and Us at @MichaelandUs on Twitter, listen at https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us , and please consider subscribing to their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus. Folks, it's good. Luke has also written for us here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/author/luke-savage

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0:00.0	Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am Ashling McCray, Podmaster General of the Current Affairs Podcast. We have a very exciting show today. I am joined by editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Hello.
0:15.5	Hello. And we are also joined by the hosts of the Michael and Us podcast.
0:22.6	They are Luke Savage and Will Sloan.
0:25.6	Hello to both of you.
0:26.6	Hello.
0:27.6	And we are here today to discuss something that is extremely important to me that I think of a house as I'm drifting off to sleep.
0:36.6	And I wake up, bolt right in my bed, thinking about
0:40.9	the Louis-Theroux-Baptist Church documentaries.
0:45.8	And sometimes, while it's 3 a.m. and I can't think about anything else, I think, who can
0:52.4	I talk about this too?
0:54.8	Or whatever version of that sentence makes grammatical sense.
0:59.4	And I think there is no one better than the hosts of the Michael and Us podcast, Luke
1:04.2	Savage and Will Sloan, because this is very, very much in their wheelhouse.
1:09.0	Can you guys just explain the Michael and Us podcast if there's any of our
1:12.7	listeners who, for some extremely odd reason, are not subscribed? Well, the podcast started as a joke,
1:18.4	basically, during the 2016 election cycle when we were talking about the Michael Moore
1:23.8	Uvra and how sort of dated it was, but also how it was such an important part of our
1:28.7	childhoods, our political comings of age. And we wanted to watch all of the Michael Moore movies,
1:34.8	plus all of the movies about him to see how they held up in the current moment. I'm talking about
1:39.6	movies like... The Michael Moore Extended Universe. Yeah, like Michael Moore hates America,
1:44.0	Fahrenheit 9-11.
1:45.8	Manufacturing dissent was another one.
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