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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #624 - Twilight of the Dinosaur Hour

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We return to one of our favourite topics: John Cleese's baffling GB News chat show THE DINOSAUR HOUR. In this episode, John and a panel of cranks and reactionaries try to define "woke," and we find that we've entered exactly the right room for an argument. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/624-twilight-of-129612151

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0:00.0

But just a refresher, the Dinosaur Hour, which ran at the end of 2023.

0:05.9

It had an epic run from 2023 to 2023.

0:09.7

It was 10 shows, much hyped and little watched.

0:13.6

There was a lot of hype around, you know, John Cleese, this British national treasure,

0:17.5

this beloved figure basically associated with liberalism or, you know,

0:23.1

obviously he campaigned for the Lib Dems in the 80s, but a liberally encoded cultural figure

0:27.2

doing a show on this hard right British news show. You know, we've all seen what John Cleese has

0:32.0

been up to in recent years. You know, he's, he doesn't like the wokes. He doesn't like the

0:36.2

cancel cultures.

0:39.1

And it'd be a show about that.

0:43.7

But also, as we found out in previous episodes, we thought we were going to watch one.

0:45.8

We now have a deep relationship with this show.

0:47.0

Deeper than anybody. Anyone who's watched it deeper than even the star of it.

0:50.3

I think so.

0:50.8

In terms of how much we've actually, like, thought about it and been immersed in it. I think so. In terms of how much we've actually like thought about it and been immersed in it.

0:54.6

Because we expected we're going to watch one episode of this show. It's going to be a sort of charming

0:59.2

curiosity where, oh, guess what? John Cleese doesn't like the wokesters. And the thing is,

1:03.7

it's kind of that. And there's a lot of Pat formulaic, you know, shit that is the same shit we've been hearing for 15 years from, you know,

1:12.1

people like Cleese and others in the sort of right-leaning liberal milieu that he's now in

1:17.0

Meshton. But it's also not that because he is also somebody who has become, it became very clear.

1:22.8

I think was it the first episode we watched when he was talking to Stephen Fry, who is the kind of

1:27.3

person who I think for John Clee's scans is like, wow, this guy is like a really deep intellectual.

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