Michael and Us: Giuliani's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world, hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. In the weeks after 9/11, Sir Paul McCartney gathered together his rock'n'roll friends for an all-star salute to the first responders. A behind-the-scenes look at the event, Albert Maysles' THE LOVE WE MAKE (2011) is a hair-raising depiction of what it's like to be the most famous man in the world, and a time capsule of America right after the towers fell. It's also a real-life Ricky Gervais show. PLUS: James Bond, Bill Clinton, and the state of the election.

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0:00.0	Everybody gonna dance tonight.
0:03.0	Everybody gonna feel alright.
0:06.0	Everybody gonna dance around tonight.
0:09.0	Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloane here is always with.
0:15.0	Luke Savage, hey everyone.
0:16.0	Because I can't travel, I've been living vicariously through other art forms.
0:21.0	Other art forms besides travel.
0:23.8	There comes a point in adulthood where I think you start watching James Bond movies for the
0:29.0	scenery.
0:30.0	So I recently watched Die Another Day, Casino Royale, and Quantum of Solis.
0:37.3	In two of those three cases, I hadn't seen them since they came out.
0:41.4	I have of course seen Die Another Day many times and I've been
0:44.9	having such a great time watching these movies. First of all have you seen Die Another Day
0:48.7	lately? I saw it a few years ago is one of those things that somebody put on. I think it was at a birthday party and they put it on ironically and it turned out to be too shitty a movie to really even have on kind of as an ironic thing in the background so I think it may have even gotten turned off.
1:07.0	That's interesting because I had the exact opposite reaction to it. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I want at least one more Bond
1:15.0	movie like this before I die. It is so outrageously tacky every single thing
1:20.1	about it, but in particular he spends 14 months getting tortured and beaten at a North Korean
1:26.4	prisoner of war camp. Oh yeah and then he comes out and he's got like a dad bought. It's like it turns out that all you need to recover from being in the North Korean
1:36.3	prison camp is a shave and a for him skin care kit from a luxury retailer.
1:42.8	And this was also at the very end of the long era where action stars could just have like
1:48.1	very normal and not very good bodies like look at any of the Batman from the 90s like you know
1:55.0	Michael Keaton he looks kind of like shit
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