Michael and Us: One Insular Tahiti
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
With Trump's indictment in the news, we thought it might be a good time to watch the movie that has been more influential on QAnon than any other: Ridley Scott's little-loved seafaring adventure WHITE SQUALL (1996). We parse this half-forgotten film to figure out why, exactly, the QAnon people love it so much. "Where we go one, we go all!"
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 | Well, welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloane. Here is always with Luke Savage. Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, I was this morning listening to my favorite podcast. I've brought it up several times and I know where this is going. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm going to bring it up again. Fly on the wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade. |
| 0:25.0 | And I do think that whenever I bring it up, Luke thinks I'm joking because you've seen the master of disguise. |
| 0:33.0 | I swear to God, Dana Carvey and David Spade feel like my friends. I love these men. I would die for these men. |
| 0:40.0 | And then this morning, when I saw that they had a new episode where the guest was, take a guess, who do you think it was? |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, was it Mike Myers? They've already had him on even better. Jay Leno. I fucking freaked out because I realized the second I saw that name on my phone, you know, I kind of like Jay Leno. |
| 1:03.0 | And I think I think I automatically start. What do you mean you kind of like Jay Leno? What the fuck are you talking about? |
| 1:10.0 | I just think I automatically kind of start liking people like that more when they're no longer the face of the monoculture. |
| 1:17.0 | That's interesting. |
| 1:18.0 | Like culture has now passed Jay Leno by. We see what the late night talk shows are now. People say there is no monoculture into some degree they're right. |
| 1:27.0 | There's no longer a talk show host like Jay Leno, who is supposed to be the middle of the middle of the middle. They're all liberals now. |
| 1:33.0 | That's what they're expected. |
| 1:35.0 | They're either liberals or they're like full-blown, like ultra-nationalist mega-chuts. |
| 1:41.0 | Right. Like gut felts. That guy on Fox News. He's the comedian, right? |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, he's the funny one. |
| 1:48.0 | There's only two acceptable modes and they're both just like different ways of being based. And by based, I mean extremely cringe. |
| 1:54.0 | There's like the Jeff T. Drake, like Fave Star account where it's like, yeah, good news everybody. |
| 2:00.0 | You want some to cheer up your day. Jim Jordan asked for documents from the DOJ this week. |
| 2:06.0 | And the DOJ told him to fuck off. That's one thing. And then the other thing is just, yeah, gut-filled. |
| 2:12.0 | I don't know, complaining about Woke Shit or something. |
| 2:14.0 | Whereas the tide definitely turned at least in terms of like late night culture when Jimmy Fallon did the hair thing with Donald Trump. |
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