Michael and Us

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A podcast about culture, politics, and our crumbling world. Hosted by Luke Savage and Will Sloan. Exclusive subscriber-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview

#675 - Where the Lions Weep
Ten years before Siri and quarter-century before …
PREVIEW - #674 - Waldorf Salad
As a coda to our exhaustive study of his show The…
#673 - Virtual Encountering on a Global Scale
In A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING (2016), Tom Hanks is a…
PREVIEW - #672 - Happiness Where Are You
A year before American Beauty offered its Oscar-r…
#671 - The Discreet Charm of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie
Set in a world of young people and old money, Whi…
PREVIEW - #670 - Space Oddity
A few years after Stanley Kubrick envisioned huma…
#669 - Just a Slob Like One of Us
At the turn of the millennium, one New Jersey-bas…
PREVIEW - #668 - At Long Last, the EDtv Episode
Long remembered as "The movie that isn't The Trum…
#667 - A War Room with a View
Just as Zohran Mamdani's New York mayoral campaig…
PREVIEW - #666 - The Veer of Libidinous Intellect
David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS (2012) imagines a w…
#665 - Cheesy Movies
It's a Gen-X and millennial touchstone that antic…
PATREON PREVIEW - Luke Unfiltered Two-Part Q&A Episode
In a special, Patreon-exclusive two-part AMA epis…
#664 - The Night They Censored Fred Allen
"When a radio comedian's program is finally finis…
#663 - A Nice, Chill Episode
The boys enjoy a nice, casual conversation like f…
#662 - Essential Paragraphs
On this very special episode, we share some of th…
PREVIEW - #661 - Our Elections are the Envy of the World (Newsroom Part 18)
We finally reach the end of Season Two of Aaron S…
#660 - Missed Connections
Sitting in New York, not much happening. Sitting …
PREVIEW - #659 - Into the Pusser-verse
In light of recent revelations about legendary Te…
#658 - Eric Roberts Squared
Lurking in the deep, dark depths of Tubi, we foun…
PREVIEW - #657 - Epic Crap Battles
It's time to lose ourselves in the music, the mom…