Michael and Us

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In the final months of his life, Walt Disney devoted much of his energy to designing a new kind of American city that he hoped would be a model for the future. Though E.P.C.O.T. ("Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow") would never be fully realized, Disney's plan for a monopolistic controlled community remains a stunning vision of a world where capitalism outlasts democracy. We watched Disney's 1966 pitch film for his insane project. PLUS: how Martin Scorsese nearly cost Disney a relationship with China.

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Not unlike a Godfrey Ho ninja movie, this episode is a smorgasbord of disparate topics, including

✓ The 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election

✓ Snowpiercer (2013)

✓ Steven Seagal

✓ More thoughts on Speechless (1994)

✓ Harvey Weinstein

✓ Yes... Godfrey Ho ninja movies

She's a Democrat. He's a Republican. They're speechwriters on warring campaigns... but can they fall in love??? That's the premise of the Michael Keaton/Geena Davis romcom SPEECHLESS (1994), which drew inspiration from the real-life romance between Clinton strategist James Carville and Bush advisor Mary Matalin. We discuss a movie that could only have been made in the '90s.

"John Cleese Had Thoughts on Slavery at SXSW and It Was Super Cringey" by James Hibberd - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-cleese-sxsw-panel-1235109668/

"Bedfellows Make Strange Politics" by Gore Vidal - https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/18/books/bedfellows-make-strange-politics.html

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The Superdelegate Patreon tier has selected HIGH FIDELITY (2000), and this beloved film gives us ample opportunity to discuss such loaded topics as memory, physical media, niche culture, ageing, and hauntology. PLUS: we check in on Ukraine, and Luke reveals a movie-star pen-pal.

Some Batman movies have been called fascist, but THE BATMAN (2022) breaks new ground for the franchise by being lib. We wouldn't be a left-wing culture podcast if we didn't occasionally pick a new Batman movie from the lowest branch on the tree, so come join us as we chart the latest developments in the Caped Crusader's political evolution.

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We perform another deep-dive into our most beloved subject, the Wetmovie1 YouTube Universe, before transitioning to a matter of even greater importance: the crisis in Ukraine. PLUS: Joan Didion - yea or nay?

Eldon Hoke - better known to the world as "El Duce" - was one of the most notorious of the so-called "shock rockers" who frightened moralists during the George H.W. Bush years. His purposely rock-bottom art is explored in THE EL DUCE TAPES (2019), a culture war documentary in which the culture war is fought between different styles of reactionaries. PLUS: thoughts on draconian new Republican policies in Florida and Texas.

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✓ Luke's immersion into right-wing Trucker Convoy streams

✓ Howard Stern

✓ Roman Polanski

✓ Inventing Anna

✓ Jordan B. Peterson: songwriter

In another Superdelegate-selected episode, we discuss THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996), the hagiographic biopic of the Hustler Magazine publisher and First Amendment warrior. We discuss Flynt's politics, and the implications of his brand of civil libertarianism. PLUS: would you like to live in a town run by Disney?

"Announcing Storyliving by Disney" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVucnt46ww

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FIRST: we take a stroll down memory lane by remembering choice cuts from James Franco's brief and ignominious career as a Vice Magazine columnist. THEN: cohost Will reports on the new film JACKASS FOREVER and the boys discuss why the franchise has outlasted every culture war. PLUS: a further dive into the film criticism of Ed Koch.