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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #287 - Malcolm McDowell, Do Better

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/287-malcolm-do-59024249 Sometimes it's fun to reach for the low-hanging fruit. On this episode, we tackle the right-wing anti-Bernie Sanders comedy FREE LUNCH EXPRESS (2021) - co-starring Kevin Sorbo, Eric Roberts, and (*deep, heavy sigh*) Malcolm McDowell - and actually learn a few things about how the right views the left.

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0:00.0

But, you know, so we solved this problem of bored and insecure and anxious idleness by, you know,

0:05.2

getting into podcasting. But many decades ago, there was someone else who experienced exactly

0:10.7

the same dilemma. He lived in Brooklyn and his name was Bernard Sanders. And he came up with

0:17.7

another solution, which, as we learned from the hit film Free Lunch Express

0:22.4

is to get the government to pay for everything, folks,

0:26.1

so you never have to work a day in your life.

0:29.4

I totally pledge with this blood oath

0:32.9

to dedicate my life

0:35.1

to never picking up a dinner check,

0:41.1

never donating to charity like in the glorious Soviet Union.

0:42.6

We've had a lot of requests for this movie, and I mean, I guess we were going to have to do it

0:46.2

at some point, but Will sold it to me on the idea that, hey, this one's going to be easy,

0:51.3

it'll be fun, you know, we looked at the running time. It's 80 minutes long.

0:55.4

I got to say, this was the longest 80 minutes of my life. I mean, I'm out of ways to say that the

1:00.8

things we watch for this podcast are sometimes masochistic and painful. But when I put this up against

1:06.6

any of the conservative kits we've watched, last, last ounce of courage, uh, saving Christmas,

1:12.3

whatever. Those movies are Felini compared to this, okay? This is the, this is the worst thing.

1:18.9

This is the worst thing we've ever watched. It is not a movie. I am shocked that I don't know how

1:23.8

this movie got any kind of funding or anything. I can only assume, I looked into

1:27.8

this and I couldn't find an answer, but I assume that like some part of the billionaire funded

1:32.9

full employment program that sustains most of the right wing media ecosystem, someone was able to

1:38.5

scrape together, you know, 50 grand or whatever and make this movie for one of these shitty little

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