Michael and Us: Promiscuous Dope Fiends

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hey folks, your old pal will here, the leader of Michael and us nation, and your own personal
0:08.8	god emperor.
0:10.1	My colleague Luke would be very upset with me if I didn't tell you what's been happening
0:14.0	on the Michael and us Patreon, because we have an extra episode every week on patreon.com,
0:19.4	slash Michael and us.
0:21.2	Recently we watched a very bad right-wing comedy about Bernie Sanders called Free Lunch Express,
0:28.0	starring Kevin Sorbo and Malcolm McDowell, Luke had a discussion with Josh Olson and
0:32.8	Dave Anthony about Amazon's new Mayor Pete documentary.
0:37.4	There have also been recent episodes on subject ranging from Jurassic Park to no time to die
0:43.0	to rush hour to the comedy of George Carlin.
0:46.5	Folks, we need your $5 a month to help fund our lifestyles of wanton, hedonism and
0:53.1	excess.
0:54.1	Please come on down to patreon.com slash Michael and us and become an official member of
1:00.1	Michael and us nation.
1:24.4	Yes folks, that's the playing it on YouTube for Luke, that's the sound of come together
1:29.9	being covered by the fifth beetle, you could say Mr. Robin Williams, turn it off.
1:37.7	I don't know if you remember this, you probably didn't see it in the late 90s, I remember
1:41.0	there was a very hyped TV special that was about the making of George Martin's last album.
1:46.3	George Martin for those who don't know, the producer often called the fifth beetle.
1:50.6	Yeah, the actual fifth beetle.
1:51.7	Yeah, the one who really helped elevate the beetles took him to the next level and he was
1:57.2	doing an album that was like his farewell or something.
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