Michael and Us: If Movies Tire You, What Will Podcasts Do?
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hell is real, and it's really bad, and it's really important that you repent. That's the thesis of THE BURNING HELL (1974), a crackpot Evangelical oddity from the deep south, brought to you by the dynamic duo of director Ron Ormond and preacher/star Estus W. Pirkle. We discuss what this bizarre handmade movie tells us about American religious conservatism. PLUS: enter Mike Pence and Chris Christie; exit Vanderpump Rules Season 10.
From deep in the Michael and Us archives, an episode on an earlier Ormond/Pirkle film, IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, WHAT WILL HORSES DO? - https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us/61-if-footmen-tire-you-what-will-horses-do
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| 0:00.0 | When you're there, you can be there, you're not there, you're there. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan, here is always with. |
| 0:16.0 | Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. |
| 0:18.0 | A lot of behind the scenes drama on this episode because I used my skills of manipulation |
| 0:24.0 | to get Luke to act we asked to the movie. |
| 0:27.0 | Luke was very much against watching this movie and I had to watching it. |
| 0:31.0 | I had to bully him today. |
| 0:33.0 | I had to bully him and bully him and bully him. |
| 0:36.0 | Sometimes Will and I are not always on the same page. |
| 0:38.0 | I think we're basically always on the same page as to whether something could be a good candidate for discussion eventually. |
| 0:45.0 | But it's just we don't always agree about like is the vibe right today. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, I was just thinking about my own spiritual mentor, Estus W. Perkel. |
| 0:53.0 | And what does he say when he's trying to convince someone of something? |
| 0:56.0 | He bulldozes, he says, you've got to do this, you've got to do this. |
| 1:01.0 | And that's what we did today. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, since this is one of those, you know, absolutely tiresome evangelical movies, |
| 1:08.0 | I might as well talk about a few related matters. |
| 1:11.0 | And by the way, this is a film about hell and it's not very good, |
| 1:15.0 | but actually in a way it is pretty good because though it's depictions of hell |
| 1:20.0 | are pretty unconvincing the experience of actually watching it. |
| 1:24.0 | But all right, look, so this is only partly related. |
| 1:27.0 | But Mike Pence and Chris Christie folks they launched their campaigns this week. |
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