Michael and Us: The Forrest Gump Episode
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It's an extremely discouraging political moment for our neighbors in the United States, so we decided the time was right to finally examine one of the quintessential cinematic articulations of American exceptionalism, FORREST GUMP (1994). Is life, in fact, like a box of chocolates? We investigate.
"The Man Who Loved Presidents: On John Meacham" by Thomas Frank - https://harpers.org/archive/2021/07/jon-meacham-thomas-frank-soul-of-america/
"Tom Hanks Explains It All" by David Marchese - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, your old pal will here. |
| 0:05.6 | My dear friend Luke would be very upset with me if I didn't tell you what's happening |
| 0:09.4 | on the Michael and us Patreon page. |
| 0:11.7 | For the low low price of 5 Yankee Dollars a month, you can get an extra episode every |
| 0:16.4 | week. |
| 0:17.4 | Recent Patreon exclusive episodes have covered such topics as the Louie Beenwell, Salvador |
| 0:22.2 | Dali, Classic, Lajdor, the movie that nearly got its financiers ex-communicated from the |
| 0:27.7 | Catholic Church, as well as the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy, and a deep dive |
| 0:32.8 | into the October Crisis in Canada. |
| 0:35.4 | This on top of years of bonus content, including episodes on everything from Pads of Glory |
| 0:40.6 | to Crumb, Patreon.com slash Michael and us. |
| 0:44.3 | Here end of the commercial. |
| 0:57.7 | Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloan here as always with. |
| 1:09.8 | Luke Savage, welcome back everyone. |
| 1:11.6 | This is a long last The Forest Gump episode, more than 300 episodes in, and I'd like |
| 1:16.6 | to tell you just a little bit about how we got here, because Forest Gump. |
| 1:20.1 | I think it's been in our backbockets since 2016, I want to say. |
| 1:24.0 | I went to see the Elvis movie this week. |
| 1:26.6 | Baz Lerman's biopic of Elvis Presley, co-starring friend of the show Tom Hanks, and I didn't |
| 1:32.5 | even know that. |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah, he plays Colonel Tom Parker, and I kind of enjoyed the movie, you know, suit me. |
| 1:38.6 | I thought it was fun. |
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