PREVIEW - #697 - The Donkey System
Michael and Us
Luke Savage and Will Sloan
4.5 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, you know, I said this show was from 2024. To be a little more precise, this show ran from May the 12th, 2024 to June the 9th. Okay. This appears to have been an absolute bomb. It only ran six episodes. And I mean, we could have watched the whole thing. You know, there's six episodes and they're about 28 minutes each. So that would have been have been what about three hours a little less than three hours |
| 0:22.4 | I promise you we're not being lazy here you you don't need to after even the first episode I mean the second one was so flat even compared to the first one like the show just runs out of gas before it even begins like I cannot even imagine what the next four episodes were like. |
| 0:39.8 | So, God, I'm getting worked up because I hated watching this so much. We should actually say |
| 0:44.0 | what the fuck this show is and what it's about. Actually, can I just say you mentioned that every |
| 0:47.6 | episode is 28 minutes. And I think that's a really important point, because that makes it about |
| 0:51.2 | four or five minutes longer than most episodes of like the |
| 0:54.6 | Simpsons are King of the Hill. And so just my internal rhythm got disrupted by this show because |
| 1:01.1 | like this show is slavishly imitative of family guy, I would say number one. Definitely. With |
| 1:07.6 | elements of King of the Hill and Bob's Burgers and even a little bit of the Simpsons in its style. |
| 1:13.9 | The titular Mr. Bircham was created and voiced by, you know him, you love him, Adam Carolla, the man show himself. |
| 1:22.2 | You know, before the Kennedy Center closed indefinitely for renovations, I was, you know, I was just curious who's performing at |
| 1:29.2 | the Kennedy Center these days. And Adam Carolla was booked. Yeah, this is what right-wing cultural |
| 1:34.6 | dominance looks like, folks. It's here. Everybody loves it. It's great. And it's going to dominate |
| 1:39.3 | for a really, really long time. Actually, you know, you're speculating. Yeah, does the |
| 1:43.7 | intended audience actually |
| 1:44.7 | like this? And I'm going to controversially say that I think they probably do because there is such a |
| 1:51.1 | persecution complex among these people. This show is all about how all of politics and culture and all |
| 1:58.3 | of the institutions and all the elites are at every turn conspiring to cut down traditional masculinity to rub their goddamn pronouns in our face. |
| 2:07.8 | You know, safe spaces and cancel culture and fucking whatever happened to hard work and YouTube and TikTok and texting and our kids are lazy and all that shit, that somebody ought to |
| 2:20.1 | say some of this stuff. Now, you and I watch this show, and it's just like, I've heard this |
| 2:25.1 | shit over and over and over again. Every joke is just stating an opinion, one of the five |
| 2:30.5 | opinions that we've heard incessantly for over a decade. But to them, |
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