Michael and Us: The Centrist Manifesto

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🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Filmmaker and Twitter personality Rob Reiner looked back at the Kennedy/Johnson era through the lens of the Obama era in LBJ (2016), the story of how an idealist's vision can only be achieved by a pragmatism... and how the pragmatist's centrism may or may not have actually camouflaged an idealist the whole time. A piece of Boomer-porn, this movie is unmistakably the vision of a Joe Biden primary voter. PLUS: fiery hot thoughts on the Canadian Conservative Party leadership race, the Ed Markey/Joe Kennedy III battle, and the controversial release of TENET.

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0:00.0	Hi folks, your old pal will here. Coming up soon, Luke and I are going to be doing another one of our beloved mailbag episodes where we take questions from you, the listener.
0:10.5	If you have burning questions for me or Luke about politics culture love and sex the meaning of life anything that your heart desires an answer to
0:20.0	send it to Michael and us podcast at gmail.com by Sunday September 6th.
0:27.0	We'll answer the questions on a future episode and it will be a Patreon episode so you can ask a question but to get the answer you have to pay.
0:37.0	And now folks on with the show.
0:40.0	Here we are. Back to the movies. Welcome to Michael and us.
0:54.0	I'm it.
1:03.0	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloane, here is always with.
1:06.0	Luke Savage, hey everyone.
1:08.0	Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
1:10.0	Living in a pandemic is a hard situation to be in but it has produced some great art and the art I'm talking about is a viral video a tweet actually a tweet video that went around this week which is maybe the funniest thing I've ever seen and it was from Tom Cruz's Twitter account and it was a video that he posted of him going to see the movie Tenet, which has been released theatrically now in much of the world, most of the world.
1:39.0	I think the video showed him going to see it in London.
1:42.0	And it's hard to put your finger quite on why this video is so
1:45.3	funny you saw it right yeah it's got this uncanny kind of slightly Tim and Eric
1:50.5	editing to it this like staccato editing were just cuts very quickly from one thing to the next and
1:56.9	Cruz just has this very bizarre like one-dimensional intensity where he's trying to celebrate the film,
2:03.4	but he can't find anything to say about it
2:06.8	except these very Trumpian flourishes
2:09.7	where it's like, yeah, it's big, it's great,
2:11.3	theaters, love them. Yeah, you see him driving in his limo to the movie theater and then he gets out and he's wearing a mask he says
2:19.2	back to the movies and you know you see him on the way out and he's like loved it. And it's so funny because going to the movies is one of the most ordinary and banal of human activities and he can't quite sell it.
2:34.8	He can't sell the idea that this is a thing that he would normally do.
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