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Michael and Us: Alex's War

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The new documentary ALEX'S WAR (2022) seeks to "look past the caricature" of the Infowars gadfly Alex Jones. Your hosts find themselves disagreeing on the usefulness of this nonjudgmental profile of the notorious conspiracy theorist.


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.



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0:00.0

Yugo is evil! Yugo is evil! Yugo is evil! Yugo is evil! Yugo is evil! Yugo is evil! Yugo is evil!

0:09.1

Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here is always with.

0:12.1

Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. The two of us are recording in person for the first time,

0:16.5

and well how long has it been? Ten days, two weeks.

0:19.2

About that, a couple of wounded warriors here again. I know that's become a recurring theme on

0:23.8

the podcast. Both of us are exhausted and wounded from our respective travails, in my case,

0:31.1

trying to take a giant project to the finish, and in Will's case, spending a week in Tuscany.

0:36.4

Yes, terrible. Although, listen folks, I will say, I feel very thrown out of whack by

0:43.2

experiencing the worst jet lag of my life at a horrible flight. You know, should I even do this

0:49.2

riff or is it just going to be sounding like first world problems, talking about how uncomfortable

0:54.7

I was in my economy class seat, how painful it was that the person next to me, I was in the middle

1:00.4

folks, okay? No word of lean, no word of stretch my legs too, okay? That's how much I have suffered,

1:06.7

and then imagine this, I know that this is really painful, but imagine, I'm sitting here just

1:11.6

trying to watch my little movies on my little screen, trying to pass the time, person my right,

1:16.0

their asleep on their screen, what's on their screen, the little map showing the plane,

1:20.8

and where the plane's progress is, for the whole flight. Now, what do I want to do? I want to

1:25.3

keep my eye focused on the movie, and then when the movie's over, look at the map, and be like,

1:30.1

look at that, look at how far we've traveled, but no, I can't do that, because in the corner of my

1:34.4

eye, I'm always seeing, fuck, the plane is still over Iceland. Can I just go a little further?

1:42.5

Can I go a little bit? So yeah, that's the pain that I was going through, not a lot of sleep

1:48.1

the night before, just jet lagged, very tired, totally unplugged as well from what's happening

1:53.2

in the world, so I'm kind of hoping Luke here can help me with that, let me know, I assume all

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