#154 - Official History

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Oscar Micheaux was the first African American to direct a feature-length film, and no other filmmaker of his age tackled the issues facing black America so directly and painfully. We watched his masterpiece WITHIN OUR GATES (1920) and discussed Micheaux's complicated career and the "race films" of the early 20th century. PLUS: Gone with the Wind! Glossy Time-Life magazines! Luke discusses debating capitalism v. socialism! Will works out his feelings towards Toronto's Garfield-themed restaurant!

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0:00.0	Why, you must have been a beautiful baby.
0:03.9	Why you must have been a wonderful child.
0:07.4	Because when you are only starting to go to kindergarten, I bet you drove a little boy as
0:13.4	while.
0:14.3	Welcome to Michael and us.
0:15.6	I'm Will Sloan.
0:16.4	Here as always with.
0:17.4	Luke Savage.
0:18.2	Hey, everyone.
0:18.9	A shock wave was sent across Toronto this week because, look,
0:23.3	the pandemic is getting everybody down. There are a lot of businesses that perhaps will not survive
0:29.8	being closed for this long. And for a brief, horrible moment, it looked like one of the businesses
0:36.3	in Toronto that might be a casualty was
0:39.0	Garfield Eats, the Garfield themed pizza restaurant in the Toronto neighborhood of Bloordale.
0:45.9	Which real heads will know about because I think we talked about it, I don't know how many episodes
0:51.1	ago, but it's a Toronto locale that Will has had a very complex series of thoughts about and a lot of inner turmoil.
0:59.7	I should say that I have never stepped foot in the Garfield restaurant.
1:03.7	It is a legally officially licensed Garfield themed pizza restaurant.
1:09.2	Wait, wait, wait, it's officially licensed.
1:11.4	Like, are you telling me there's some kind of, like, special board, you know, or, like,
1:16.0	institutional body that determines what is, you know, sanctioned Garfield, like, what
1:22.0	constitutes a sanctioned Garfield-thield-themed establishment?
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