{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcurrentaffairs.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fwbc-QODD33_O","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Current Affairs/Michael and Us Crossover Special: The Westboro Baptist Church","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a8e3828a-375e-49fd-973f-025700235a18/ddb430f0-40cf-4c6d-97bd-6ee26bf1a3eb/currentaffairs.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/93e5a017-c978-4c1b-b9a3-5c506e85a770\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Current Affairs/Michael and Us Crossover Special: The Westboro Baptist Church\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Nathan and Aisling are joined by Luke Savage and Will Sloan of the political movie podcast Michael and Us. Together, they ruminate on the three-part documentary series The Most Hated Family in America, which followed the extremist Westboro Baptist Church from 2007 to 2019, and which unwittingly created a time capsule that offers a strange insight into the liberal viewpoint on religion and dogma in the 2000s. (Content warning: we briefly quote some of the homophobic slurs used by the WBC.)\n\n\nFollow Michael and Us at @MichaelandUs on Twitter, listen at  https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us , and please consider subscribing to their Patreon at  https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus. Folks, it's good. \n\n\n\nLuke has also written for us here:  https://www.currentaffairs.org/author/luke-savage "}