Michael and Us: Just Asking Questions
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dinesh D'Souza believes he has uncovered shocking proof that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 election in 2000 MULES (2022), a documentary so shoddy that even right-wing media is hesitant to publicize it. We follow the trail of Dinesh's conspiracy theory to its inevitable endpoint: a contempt for democracy itself. PLUS: we discuss the billionaire whose name is on everyone's lips, Elon Musk.
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 | Hi everyone. Luke here. Well, it's that time of the show where I actually remember to mention |
| 0:10.0 | that Michael and us has a Patreon. That's right. Even though we rarely remember to advertise |
| 0:15.6 | that fact to you, you can find an extra episode every single week at patreon.com slash |
| 0:20.9 | Michael and us for five Yankee dollars a month, which is about $6.45 in the Queen's currency |
| 0:28.0 | if you happen to be listening from Canada. In addition to the free episodes, we also publish |
| 0:33.1 | bonus content, including but not limited to interviews that I do in my day job at Jacobin |
| 0:39.0 | and other treats. So, if you enjoy the free episodes and want to give your old buddies |
| 0:43.3 | will and Luke some love, go to patreon.com slash Michael and us and enjoy twice the content |
| 0:48.8 | every week. You'd also be doing us a huge solid by rating a show on your podcast app of |
| 0:53.5 | choice and if you have a second leaving a review, apparently that helps us game the algorithms |
| 0:58.7 | on with the show. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision |
| 1:06.3 | of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine. |
| 1:14.5 | I wrecked it anyway. 75. Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with Luke |
| 1:27.1 | Savage. Welcome back everyone. I was horrified by an article I saw in the Wall Street Journal |
| 1:31.7 | this morning, your favorite publication. The title was, there's a new media mogul tearing |
| 1:36.8 | up Hollywood. It's about Warner Bros. new CEO David Zazlov. He just started at Warner Brothers |
| 1:44.0 | and the opening of the article is, days into his role as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, |
| 1:49.2 | David Zazlov gathered movie studio executives and grilled them about a recent string of box |
| 1:54.1 | office flops, including crime macho, a Clint Eastwood neo-western. Warner Bros' executives |
| 1:59.9 | conceded they had doubted the movie would turn a profit. Why Mr. Zazlov asked was crime macho |
| 2:05.6 | made if they had reservations? When they replied that Mr. Eastwood had given the studio many hits and |
| 2:10.6 | never delivered a movie late or over budget. When they explained who Clint Eastwood was, he answered, |
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