Michael and Us: The Party's Over
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Against the backdrop of the incredibly boring 2000 election, the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman went on a cross-country journey to see if George W. Bush or Al Gore represented America. The result was THE PARTY'S OVER (2001), aka THE LAST PARTY 2000 — that's right, it's an official sequel to the Robert Downey Jr-hosted documentary. We found many resonances between this fossil from the turn of the millennium and our current moment. PLUS: The Democratic Party primary, the fascist Italian Prime Minister in Canada, and a fond farewell to David Bordwell.
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 | It's the end of the world as we know it. |
| 0:04.0 | It's the end of the world as we know it. |
| 0:08.0 | Well, welcome to Michael and us. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Will Sloane here as always with. |
| 0:12.0 | League Savage. welcome back everyone. |
| 0:14.0 | And I just want to tell you something. |
| 0:15.0 | I cracked open a can of Coke Zero here, and I just heard today that if you drink too much Coke Zero, |
| 0:21.0 | studies show that it substantially increases your |
| 0:24.2 | likelihood of getting a stroke, which is very frustrated to me because Koch zero |
| 0:28.8 | had been my shortcut to not thinking about snacking between meals. |
| 0:33.0 | So I don't know what I'm going to do now. |
| 0:35.0 | Probably start smoking. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't know, well, I would look into that study |
| 0:39.0 | and what it actually says, |
| 0:41.0 | because there is a whole history of this kind of bullshit |
| 0:44.2 | nutrition advice that you know there'll be some peer-reviewed academic study or |
| 0:49.3 | something and then some writer will skim it you know some writer who's like needs to file three articles a day for a newspaper and is like, okay, what do I file? |
| 0:58.0 | And they find a study where it's like, oh, yeah, it turns out that they gave Coke zero to rats and the rats all had strokes. |
| 1:05.2 | And yeah like that might be true but often what you find in those studies is like the dosage they gave |
| 1:10.0 | them would be like the equivalent if you drank like 10 million coke zeros in your life to even get to like the the level of increased |
| 1:17.6 | possibility that they're talking about well you don't know how much I've been relying on Coke Zero to get me to stop thinking about snacking between meals. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay, the fact is that any, literally any substance when consumed in excess is bad for you. |
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