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Michael and Us: The Show About Nothing

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History, News, Politics

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) is widely remembered as a prescient film that anticipates the rise of social media and reality TV. But how accurate was its forecast, really? And what, exactly, was it saying? And hey—did the audience watch Truman go to the bathroom? We investigate.


"The Audience is Us" by Jonathan Rosenbaum: https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2021/07/the-audience-is-us/


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I wanna read you a tweet I saw, a tweet it on April 30th.

0:21.4

Huge news, we pray it's so accurate, that's how they put it.

0:24.9

Between Monday, 2nd of May and Thursday, 5th of May, there was expected to be a removal

0:28.8

of Joe Biden and a return of Trump to the US presidency.

0:31.9

This is big, and then it's cited to just little dash, it has high level, so the source

0:36.9

is high level.

0:37.9

Now I will say I'm starting to get a bit nervous because it is, we are recording this

0:41.1

on Thursday May the 5th, it's almost 9 p.m., and I mean I don't know, I guess I haven't

0:44.7

checked the new, we were watching a movie, so I haven't checked the news in the last hour,

0:48.4

but last time I checked, you know, the foul Joe Brandon is still president.

0:52.5

Where are you reading this from?

0:53.8

Well I told you, the source is high level, I mean it's a tweet, it's one of these, it's

0:58.8

one of these Q people, you know, it's like someone has Q in their bio, it had like thousands

1:03.7

of retweets or whatever, and I guess this is something that's been happening with the

1:07.1

Q people.

1:08.1

I mean on and off since the whole thing started, right, where like, you know, the prophecy

1:11.6

just like fails over and over again, like one of the first big times it failed was in

1:15.7

the 2018 midterms when the Democrats took back the house.

1:19.2

You know, last year when we talked about that documentary by Colin Hoback, one of the

1:23.6

best things made about Q and on, you know, is a scene because he got access to a lot

1:27.7

of Q hard core people, like the really die hard, you know, Q influencers and stuff.

1:32.2

And there's this footage where they're watching the 2018 midterms come in and they're all

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