Well, Luke, I don't know if you're a subscriber to the Michael and us Patreon, but there's some interesting content up there right now.

I mean, you say that as a joke, but believe it or not, I'm not actually a subscriber because I've never felt the need to contribute to my own podcast.

Your girlfriend's a subscriber, though, right? That's awfully nice. So something from the Savage household is making its way in.

Mine is not. Anyway, some of our exclusive Patreon episodes include discussing the new James Bond 007 adventure, no time to die, almost forgot what the movie was called.

A movie you won't find discussed anywhere else.

We talked about the classic pro wrestling documentary Beyond the Matt. We looked back at the career of George Carlin to see Does He Hold Up.

We talked about the Netflix documentary Voyeur. And recently we had a powwow on the bad art friend phenomenon. Oh, and how could I forget?

Last Patreon episode or a recent one was about Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park for God's sake.

And in addition to an extra episode every week, we've also got a lot of bonus content. So we've got interviews with all kinds of interesting people.

We just put up my recent discussion with Robert Fitzpatrick, who's an expert on pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing.

We recently featured an episode in which I talked to the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney and the investigative journalist David Sarota about their new series Meltdown.

I talked about beautiful boaters with the historian Patrick Wyman and a recent piece he wrote for The Atlantic about the influence of local gentry in American politics.

All kinds of fun stuff there at patreon.com slash Michael and us. If you like the regular episodes, check us out on Patreon.

Well, welcome to Michael and us proper. I'm Will Sloan, here is always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back everyone.

I was remembering today I had been reminded of the Tom Cruise couch jumping incident from the year 2005.

Needs no introduction. I don't need to tell folks what the Tom Cruise couch jumping incident was.

Well, well, coming in guns blazing off the top of this one.

And it occurred to me because I was I think I heard it on a podcast. I want to say I heard it somewhere.

I might have heard it on a YouTube video. Just somebody ambiently mentioning the Tom Cruise couch jumping thing, which goes to show you what a seismic event it was.

It was like one of probably the two culture related things people were talking. No, you don't forget about culture.

One of the two things people talked about in 2005. It wasn't an election year.

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