Michael and Us: Know Thyself w/ Alex Shephard
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
A Christian boy goes up against his sinister atheist philosophy teacher (played by Kevin Sorbo!) in GOD'S NOT DEAD (2014), one of the biggest evangelical blockbusters of all time. Luke and guest host Alex Shephard discuss the film's tone-deaf depiction of academia and its particular streak of right-wing sadism. PLUS: What's next for Tucker Carlson? And is there any life at all in the ol' Ron DeSantis?
"Tucker Carlson Has Already Lost His War With Fox News" by Alex Shephard - https://newrepublic.com/article/172274/tucker-carlson-twitter-video-lost-war-fox-news
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, co-host Luke here with just a minor production note before we get to the |
| 0:04.2 | meat of today's show. As some of you will know, if you've been listening to our recent episodes, |
| 0:08.8 | my esteemed co-host, Mr. Will Sloan, is currently on the other side of the world. He's in the |
| 0:14.0 | land down under, so that's not able to join me at the Gore-Lieberman Studios to record. I did not |
| 0:20.3 | want to make Will do an episode over Zoom while he's trying to enjoy himself and get a little |
| 0:25.7 | bit of time off, particularly given the ferocity of some of the things that we've been |
| 0:30.4 | subjecting ourselves to for the show over the last few weeks. But don't fret, I've got a great |
| 0:37.0 | co-host in Alex Shepherd of the New Republic. I'm sure many of you know his work already, and of |
| 0:42.3 | course he's been a past guest on the show. So we had a great movie that was actually Alex's |
| 0:48.7 | suggestion. I think this is going to be the first of, well, at least several more episodes in this |
| 0:54.4 | vein. I feel like we have discovered a very rich deposit of material here. Off the top, Alex's |
| 1:01.4 | head, like mine has been very much with the Trump DeSantis fight. Alex has also written extensively |
| 1:09.2 | about Tucker Carlson. So since both of these things have been in the news, we spent a fair |
| 1:14.8 | amount of time talking about that off the top in a pretty fairly serious, straight politics |
| 1:19.9 | discussion. And then we proceeded for the remainder of the show to descend into madness. I was in |
| 1:26.8 | physical agony watching this movie, but also ecstasy as well. You will hear by the end of the |
| 1:33.1 | discussion just our madness and also joy at discussing the Kevin Sorbode Christian Wright Evangelical |
| 1:40.8 | movie, God's Not Dead. Just as a final note, if you are listening to this on a free feed somewhere, |
| 1:47.3 | a reminder that the Michelinus podcast does have a Patreon Patreon.com slash Michelinus where you |
| 1:53.3 | can subscribe for the low low price of just five Yankee dollars a month to get a whole extra |
| 1:58.4 | episode a week plus a bunch of other bonus goodies that we put on there. So that's more than twice |
| 2:04.2 | the content you can get on the free feed patreon.com slash Michelinus. Now with all that out of the way, |
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