The Complicated Legacy of Michael Jackson
Pot Psychology
Pot Psychology
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Rich loved Michael, which is how we ended up in the moral labyrinth that is Michael Jackson’s legacy. We revisit Living with Michael Jackson, ask what it means to separate art from artist (and whether that’s even possible), and sit with the discomfort.
Elsewhere: Madonna is back in her chaos era, making a pilgrimage to The Abbey as part of her press tour. Tracie speed-reads Lena Dunham’s memoir Famesick and comes to some…conclusions.
And finally, a cursed visual you now have to live with too: turtle erections.
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| 0:00.0 | Is she suicidal? |
| 0:02.0 | No, just that her life is such that. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, that's strange. Why don't you tell me? |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, they looks good to me. I don't know. |
| 0:09.0 | I thought you were going for something different now. |
| 0:12.0 | I saw Michael. Michael. |
| 0:23.6 | The movie. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh. |
| 0:25.6 | You know what? |
| 0:26.6 | You liked it? |
| 0:27.6 | I really did. |
| 0:28.6 | I know that it's like, I, it's obviously a corny biopic, but it does that I think extremely well. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, Janet asked to not be featured in it at all. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah, she did. |
| 0:40.0 | Which I get too. |
| 0:41.1 | But here's what I'll say about it. |
| 0:42.5 | Here's the reading of it that allows me to justify and like exactly what they did is that it allows |
| 0:51.0 | people to actually experience what it was like to fall in love with him |
| 0:55.7 | culturally without the baggage of abuse because those allegations didn't exist during his assent. |
| 1:01.0 | Right. |
| 1:01.5 | It's the only possible way that you could convey that to people. |
| 1:04.4 | And I'm not shilling for the Jackson family. |
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