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Dec 2020
42m 35s

Michael and Us: Joy to the New World Ord...

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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. For our annual holiday episode, we finally did the inevitable: a deep-dive into the ideology of Disney/Tim Allen joint THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994). We got a little drunk with holiday cheer on this one, folks. 
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