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Mar 2024
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Michael and Us: Fresh Prince of Persia

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In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf War. We take a visit to the consent-manufacturing factory and discuss the "apolitical" James Woods-hosted TV special VOICES THAT CARE: STAND TALL, STAND PROUD (1991).


Watch the special here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ1S_UNaWps


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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