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UNLOCKED - #539 - Studio Sucky, Part 8: Comedy Will Save Us (w/ Will Menaker)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF OUR ONGOING "STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP" SERIES ON PATREON - Join us there for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus It's Studio 60 vs the unions in Episode 17 ("The Disaster Show") of Aaron Sorkin's STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP. We're pleased to welcome Will Menaker (of Chapo Trap House and Movie Mindset fame) to help us make sense of Sorkin's perspective on organized labor. PLUS: So have you heard about Joe Biden? You've heard of Chapo Trap House, but here's there website - https://www.chapotraphouse.com/

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0:00.0

Thanks so much for joining. It's no small thing to watch an episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, so I really appreciate it.

0:06.7

No problem. My pleasure. Or, you know, my unique opportunity to talk Aaron Sorkin.

0:13.1

Well, yeah, I'm excited to get to that, although since we have you here, Will, I did think it might be fun off the top to talk a little bit about some of the, some of the

0:23.2

stuff going on with your president at the moment. I mean, I, I had a chance to listen to the

0:28.5

conversation you had with Dave and Josh on your show. But it seems like some new stuff has dropped

0:34.7

that's kind of fun since, you know, it just in the last few hours.

0:39.1

So perhaps we could start with that.

0:41.1

I mean, God, where do we even begin with this?

0:44.5

Are you ready for Kamala?

0:46.4

I mean, look, I didn't fall out of a coconut tree.

0:48.7

And I'm existing in the context of the things that, but the time in existing in the context of spaces

0:57.0

is really where we're all at right now.

1:00.1

Amen.

1:00.8

And, you know, it's just come to crack open our heads like a coconut and pour out the juicy

1:05.5

brain milk inside.

1:07.5

So, yeah, I'm ready for Kamala.

1:09.2

I'm ready for, you know, I'm, I'm just ready for

1:11.7

news to finally be happening. It does feel like, yeah, this is like the most I've felt that

1:17.8

like posts matter since 2020, to put it very stupidly. It feels like consequential things are

1:24.5

happening again in politics at like the rate that they were very briefly

1:29.3

for like a few months in I don't know maybe 2016 and again in 2020. I mean just within the last

1:35.7

10 minutes, this is from Politico. The Biden campaign sends an all staff memo seeking to calm

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