Welcome to Mike Linus. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

Luke Savage. Hey, everyone.

Another quarantine episode. Not sure how long this is going to go. Not sure what we have to add that we haven't said already.

I mean, eventually, wise pose, we'll just stop saying that and this will become, you know, normal.

It's a horrifying thought. But I mean, we hope, you know, as always, we hope everybody listening that you guys are all doing all right and that you're not, you know, dying of crippling boredom or more importantly

that, you know, you're not lacking in wages or the necessities of life. For our last episode,

our kind of fan episode that we put behind the Patreon, we got a lot of updates from you guys

about how you were doing and people listening are all over the world and are dealing with different

things in varying degrees. So once again, we hope everyone's doing okay. I'm anxious that when this

pandemic is over and we return to real life, everything good will be gone. Sometimes it feels like

over the last 10 or 15 years, there's been this kind of slow and

concerted effort to wipe out everything that I personally like and enjoy. This hit home for me a

little bit this week when I saw that one of my favorite magazines, film comment, is going on

what is apparently indefinite hiatus.

Next month's issue, they call it the last issue, and it'll be online only, not print.

Something like 50% of the staff at the Film Society of Lincoln Center was laid off,

and it was particularly depressing to see that news of possibly the end of this very storied magazine, this institution with 58 years

of history that all of the great American critics have written for at one point or another.

Its probable demise was mentioned like three quarters of the way through a press release, mentioning a lot of other

downsizing that was happening at the film society. And what, I mean, what happened? Like anything,

it's just a case of an institution downsizing supposedly during a challenging economic time. I know that it's hard for a print

publication at any point in time, but Nick Pinkerton wrote something in an article recently

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