Michael and Us: Of Shoes and Men

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ben Affleck's AIR (2023) chronicles the wheeling and dealing that led to Michael Jordan signing with Nike, and this unabashed celebration of the world's most famous shoe brand positions the Air Jordan as a victory for trickle-down economics. We discuss the movie that asks the question: "What if you made The Social Network about people who were frickin' epic??"

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	Let me share a few principles with you that I'm hoping we can integrate into our business
0:17.2	model here at the podcast, just a few notes I took before we started recording.
0:22.3	Number one, our business has changed.
0:24.7	You got that?
0:25.7	Okay.
0:26.7	That's the business.
0:27.7	I already knew that before we did the first episode.
0:29.3	Okay.
0:30.3	We're of one mind.
0:31.3	Number two, we're on offense all the time.
0:33.9	Okay?
0:34.9	Yeah.
0:35.9	Yeah.
0:36.9	So, you know, some people play some defense, some offense, some people just play defense,
0:38.7	we're on offense all the time.
0:40.2	Perfect results count, not a perfect process, break the rules, fight the law.
0:46.0	You're not saying anything, so I'll just assume you agree with that.
0:48.8	This is as much about battle as a poke business.
0:51.8	Well, okay.
0:52.8	I also have some principles I go by.
0:56.0	Sex is like money.
0:57.2	Money too much is enough.
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