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Michael and Us

PATREON BONUS - Michael Moore Revisited

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Society & Culture

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We watch the short documentary MICHAEL MOORE MAKES A MOVIE (2018) - a bonus feature on the Criterion release of Bowling for Columbine - and consider how it both challenges and affirms certain of our preconceptions about this podcast's patron saint. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE CONTENT - https://www.patreon.com/posts/149365674

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0:00.0

Well, folks, we have a bit of a reflection today about one of our favorite subjects on this show.

0:05.2

And this came about because last week, you'll all remember, we talked about Larry Elder's classic film, Michael and me.

0:12.5

We became the first people in 15 years at least to watch the film.

0:16.7

So that was pretty cool.

0:17.8

It felt like planning a flag on the moon.

0:19.9

Got me thinking about Michael Moore again, our old friend.

0:23.3

And just this past week, I was out, and I saw the criterion edition of Bowling for Columbine

0:28.5

for Sale used.

0:30.1

What's the saddest poem you've ever heard?

0:32.6

For sale, bowling for Columbine, never played.

0:36.2

Anyway, some strange thing came over me me and I bought it because I wanted to spend a little

0:42.1

time with Michael Moore again.

0:43.7

And on the Criterion Blu-ray, there's a 35-minute documentary called Michael Moore Makes a

0:48.9

movie.

0:49.4

It features new interviews or new at the time that the disc was made.

0:53.4

I think that was 2018.

0:55.0

New interviews with Michael Moore and some of his collaborators on Bowling for Columbine,

1:00.4

including Chief Archivist Carl Deal, supervising producer Tia Lesson. And by the way,

1:06.4

Carl Deal and Tia Lassen have become directors in their own right they just made a film about

1:11.1

amy goodman for example called steal this story please as well as field producers jeff

1:16.7

gibbs and megan o'hara and they walk through the making of bowling for columbine and articulate

1:23.2

the process of making a michael more movie yeah, it just got me thinking about Michael Moore again,

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