Michael and Us: I Only Read It for the Articles

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In another Superdelegate-selected episode, we discuss THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996), the hagiographic biopic of the Hustler Magazine publisher and First Amendment warrior. We discuss Flynt's politics and the implications of his brand of civil libertarianism. PLUS: would you like to live in a town run by Disney?

"Announcing Storyliving by Disney": www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVucnt46ww

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	When you wish upon a star, make no difference to what you want.
0:09.6	Anything your heart desires will come to you.
0:18.4	Welcome to Michael and us on Will Sloan, here is always with.
0:21.6	Look Savage, welcome back everyone.
0:23.2	I don't know if I mentioned this on the podcast.
0:25.0	I might have mentioned it around Christmas time
0:27.0	that I was watching a lot of Christmas specials this past holiday season.
0:30.8	And I watched this one.
0:31.7	There was broadcast from Disneyland in I think the early 60s.
0:35.4	It was hosted by Walt himself, you know, doing the full stick, you know,
0:39.7	doing the full.
0:40.5	Oh, I'm Walt Disney.
0:42.1	I'm America's dad.
0:43.7	That kind of like Proto, Tom Hanks, Affity, shit.
0:48.3	Yeah, Christmas at Disneyland and you see everything that's at Disneyland.
0:52.3	It's changed an awful lot since then.
0:54.4	You know, they had the Hall of Presidents, they had like settlers and
0:58.7	indigenous peoples and but like the Disneyland version of all that.
1:02.7	It's like at least back then you could experience American history
1:06.6	in the most banal way possible through Disneyland.
1:10.1	You're watching this like this park is fucking enormous.
1:13.9	And Disney himself is just like so happy presiding over this empire of shit.
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