Michael and Us

PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/60369298

Drunk on the spirit of the holidays, the boys kick back their heels and have a low-key hangout where they discuss some of their very favorite things. Subjects range from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's On Cinema at the Cinema to Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven to Monty Python and more.

PATREON BONUS - https://www.patreon.com/posts/60215138

What exactly is “national conservatism” and to what extent does it represent a break from the post-Reaganite consensus as we’ve known it? Luke talked to Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell (cohosts of the Know Your Enemy podcast) about the recent National Conservative Conference (NatCon), the so-called national conservatives, and where the Right may be headed in the coming years.

PATREON EXCLUSIVE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/60156412

For our annual holiday episode, we return to our obsession with '90s fatherhood-in-crisis movies by watching the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996). Folks, you know it, you love it. "I am not a pervert! I am just looking for Turbo Man doll!" PLUS: we have a fun time roasting one of Canada's most annoying writers.

For months we've been immersing ourselves in such Intellectual Property soups as Ready Player One, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and The Simpsons in Plusaversary, so we felt it was time to examine the animated hit that helped birth this new phenomenon: THE LEGO MOVIE (2014). PLUS: the return of COVID, a bad week for the Democrats, and the actual, honest-to-goodness phenomenon of official Rifkin's Festival NFTs.

"What’s behind global covid inequalities? Corporate greed" by Luke Savage - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/covid-vaccine-corporatism-inequality/

"Beyond NFT: DAMOVE company is building the future of movies & entertainment" - https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/beyond-nft-damove-company-is-building-the-future-of-movies-entertainment#ixzz7FW3eISjz

Learn more about Rifkin's Festival NFTs - https://twitter.com/RifkinsfestNft

PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/59880390

In 1999, The Matrix became a zeitgeist-catching, generation-defining phenomenon. A year earlier, DARK CITY (1998) traversed similar thematic terrain but failed to meet the same success. In this Superdelegate-selected episode, we discuss the similarities and key differences between the two films, and situation Dark City in its cultural moment.

For 78 days in 1990, a group of Mohawk protestors withstood a siege from the Canadian armed forces. The root of the conflict? A town in Quebec sought to take over their land to expand a golf course. The Oka Crisis is the subject of Alanis Obomsawin's acclaimed documentary KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE (1993), which offers us an opportunity to consider how Canada treats its First Nations.

Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yP3srFvhKs

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/59599572

Everyone has their price. Anything that has ever meant anything to you will be corrupted. No artwork you love really belongs to you. This is the dark message of the new Disney+ short film THE SIMPSONS IN PLUSAVERSARY (2021). PLUS: we talk about a range of TV and film, including Parks & Recreation, 2012, and the cinema of Fred Halstead.

With the Beatles once again in the zeitgeist, we decided to revisit the jukebox musical ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007), which positioned the lads' music as a backdrop to the social upheavals of the 1960s. Does it completely misunderstand both the music and the milieu? (Spoiler: yes)

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In a jumbo-sized crossover with The West Wing Thing podcast, Luke discusses Amazon's new Pete Buttigieg documentary MAYOR PETE (2021) with Josh Olson and Dave Anthony. Relive the magic and fun of those early primaries with Pete, Chasten, Lis Smith, and the whole gang! And fall in love with the sitting United States secretary of transportation all over again! (NOTE: cohost Will is off this episode because, sadly, he has fallen down a well. Rescue teams are at the scene, and we all pray for his speedy recovery)

Check out The West Wing Thing- https://westwingthing.libsyn.com/

Before there was Elon Musk, there was Tony Stark. We travelled back to 2008 to look at IRON MAN, the first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and were excited to find that it serves its ideology on a big platter and with minimal ornamentation.

A video on the filming of Iron Man 2 at Edwards Air Force Base - https://vimeo.com/191818335?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=4293012