Michael and Us: Socialism with Disneyan Characteristics
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🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Buzz Lightyear origin movie LIGHTYEAR (2022) has become a cultural lightning-rod in the right-wing moral panic over "grooming." We discuss this controversy (which is ridiculous, by the way), and then discuss the movie, in which we can learn a little bit about how the Disney Company views itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Will here. We talked about this subject in greater length on our last Patreon episode, |
| 0:06.1 | and I'm not sure if a goofy podcast about the Buzz Lightyear movie is the ideal place for much more. |
| 0:12.7 | But the US Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v Wade is still the issue that's at |
| 0:18.3 | the forefront of so many people's minds, so I think we'd be remiss to not acknowledge it at the |
| 0:23.2 | start of this free episode. It's obviously a very scary and frustrating thing when such an |
| 0:29.0 | unpopular decision can be mandated by an institution as illegitimate as the Supreme Court, |
| 0:35.3 | and affects so many people's lives. It's doubly scary and frustrating when the |
| 0:39.8 | nominally liberal institutions that should be fighting back act so powerless. There's no silver |
| 0:45.5 | lining or good news here, but there is the knowledge that this decision does not represent the |
| 0:50.4 | wishes of the vast majority of people in the US and beyond, and the hope that maybe we can all |
| 0:55.3 | work together even as institutions fail us. To that end, we've included in the show notes, |
| 1:00.5 | some links where you can support abortion funds in the US. Please consider donating, |
| 1:06.0 | and now on a completely different note, on with this episode about, yes, the Buzz Lightyear movie. |
| 1:25.5 | Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here is always with. Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. |
| 1:35.0 | This is, I suppose, in some ways a special episode in the tradition of our Rise of Skywalker episode. |
| 1:42.5 | Real heads will remember. This is a Michael and us at the movies episode. There is just feet for |
| 1:47.6 | me at this moment a bag of popcorn that we got and didn't finish while at the movie. I by contrast |
| 1:53.6 | had my entire bag of large popcorn and I feel very bad about it. I'm trying to be on the straight |
| 1:59.2 | narrow lately and trying to lose that last 10 pounds and I feel like I've just set myself completely |
| 2:05.0 | off course. But as this movie teaches us, there really is no courses there. The course is the one |
| 2:10.4 | that you take. That's right, everything happens for a reason. Anyway, I've been pressuring Will |
| 2:15.2 | to do an episode on the blockbuster Buzz Lightyear origin film Lightyear for a few weeks now. |
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