Michael and Us

In this special bonus episode, Will and Luke are joined by returning guest Chris Berube to explore the most financially successful right-wing documentary of the post-Michael Moore age. It's the movie that, according to its maker, swayed 1 million votes to Mitt Romney* and landed its director in prison**. It's 2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA, by the one and only Dinesh D'Souza.

*Almost certainly untrue

**He was actually indicted for campaign finance law violations

Will and Luke continue their voyage through the anti-Michael Moore documentaries of the mid-2000s with MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA, a Michael Moore-style documentary about Michael Moore himself. Filmmaker Michael Wilson travels the country in pursuit of an interview with Moore, but discovers America instead. Along the way, he haplessly tries to explain to Albert Maysles why the title "MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA" is actually a satiric comment on 2004-era political discourse; ambushes Dinesh D'Souza; and listens raptly to our modern Cicero, Penn Jillette. Holy crap, this movie is terrible.

Luke and Will take a detour from the Michael Moore canon to begin a three-week exploration of the anti-Moore documentaries released in the immediate wake of FAHRENHEIT 9/11. First up: FAHRENHYPE 9/11, a straight-to-video rebuttal documentary starring a who's-who of 2004-era neoconservatism. Incredibly enough, it's not very good.

George W. Bush. Lila Lipscomb. James Bath. Britney Spears. Yes, friends - this week, Will and Luke are taking you back to the heady days of 2004, when America's fate hung in the balance and Michael Moore was one of the most talked-about men in the world. Yes, this is the episode you've been waiting for. It's time to let the eagle soar. It's time for FAHRENHEIT 9/11.

It was the movie that blew our heroes' minds when they were teenagers - but does it hold up? This week, Will Sloan, Luke Savage, and special guest Chris Berube revisit Michael Moore's Oscar-winning BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. These three Canadians will unlock the doors... of your hearts.

Michael Moore went from chronicling the downfall of Flint, Michigan to documenting his own friggin book tour in THE BIG ONE, his first feature-length documentary after ROGER & ME. Will and Luke discover that this forgotten relic of the Clinton era is forgotten for a reason, but still find plenty to say about neoliberalism, film marketing, and their own wasted Friday night. PLUS: our heroes pinpoint possibly the worst scene(s) in any Michael Moore movie.

Will and Luke's depressing journey through the oeuvre of Michael Moore makes an obligatory stop at the master's one and only fiction film. Our heroes dig up a poorly-regarded and mostly forgotten comedy from 20+ years ago only to bury it all over again. In the process, they explore its class politics, its post-Gulf War media satire, and its status as a Clinton-era "End of History" relic.

Will and Luke go back to the beginning and revisit arguably the only Michael Moore film that a sensible person might still watch in the year 2016.

The adventure begins as Will Sloan and Luke Savage revisit Michael Moore's little-seen documentary about his 2004 "Slacker Uprising" tour.