Michael and Us: Snobs and Deplorables

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. In the aftermath of the siege on the Capitol, we looked at a movie that depicts America as at war with itself. The 2020 action-satire THE HUNT is an "equal-opportunity offender" in which Liberal Elites hunt MAGA Chuds for sport - and like most "equal-opportunity offenders," it misses all the real targets. PLUS: thoughts on the Georgia runoff elections.

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0:00.0	This land and this land is my land from California to the New York
0:08.4	Island from the Redwood Forest and the Gulf Stream Waters this land was made for you and me
0:18.0	Welcome to Michael and us I'm Will Sloane here as always with Luke Savage welcome back everyone a little bit of personal news to start the podcast with
0:26.8	I am no longer Trump's chief communications officer as of this morning.
0:33.0	I attended my resignation.
0:34.5	I felt that after yesterday, I simply could not continue.
0:38.0	I mean, I'm anxious about what comes next.
0:40.2	It's the first time I've been without a job for a while.
0:42.6	I'm glad I have this podcast to fall back on, but every now and then, country has to come over
0:47.6	party.
0:48.6	So do you support impeaching the president?
0:50.6	Well, no, because, you know know ultimately I think that the American
0:53.6	people had their say four years ago and we have to respect the will of the people
0:58.0	but I cannot personally be involved. Well it's important to look forward right and
1:02.1	not backwards either.
1:03.0	Took the words right out of my mouth.
1:05.0	Well, it's been an eventful newsweek.
1:07.0	From the highest of highs to the lowest of lows,
1:10.0	and much like in Blue Velvet, the lows and the highs often find themselves interweaving.
1:16.0	I'm sure we can expand on that thesis as we go on, but for a lot of people this week began very happily when on January 5th which also happened to be my 32nd birthday
1:27.6	Oh yeah happy birthday well thank you I appreciate that the Georgia runoffs took place and
1:32.4	the Democrats defied the odds and managed to
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