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Michael and Us

#183 - Back to Brunch

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With Biden's victory all but confirmed, we discuss the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election: the narratives being spun to explain the results, Trump's response, why four years of Biden/McConnell will almost certainly be bad, and why there still may be cause of optimism. Then we discuss a movie for times like this: Charlie Chaplin's career-destroying anti-capitalist black MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947), a film that told America, "Things are bad, and have always been bad."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to war against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay, democracy is coming to the USA.

0:18.0

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

0:21.3

Luke Savage. Hello, everyone. Happy election week.

0:24.3

You were telling me that you were fighting a pretty severe case of Twitter brain this week.

0:29.4

I feel I have, too. I feel like I've constantly been on my phone, constantly been firing out, you know, great hot takes, scalding, brilliant insights.

0:39.7

Yeah, I was going to talk to you about that because actually our new partners at the Lincoln

0:44.5

Project haven't liked some of the stuff you've been saying. They want to have a sit down.

0:49.2

Ooh, they're going to sense to me, are they? That's my Ricky Jervais's impression.

0:54.1

That one might have been a bit

0:55.3

on the note. Maybe not. Listen to it when it comes out and see if it worked. But where's your state

0:59.4

of mind at right now? A couple days ago, we had, you know, a little jam session about the election.

1:05.7

Biden has since been, I guess it's been called for him. I know they're still counting some votes, but it's

1:11.5

pretty much official now that he's the president-elect. We've had a little bit of time to cool

1:16.2

down. Where's your head at right now? I mean, at this moment, my head is just exhausted from processing

1:22.6

so much data about the election, trying to go through it, sort out what I really think,

1:28.8

try to kind of parse all of the different narratives. But I think basically I feel much the same

1:34.9

way that I did, I guess it was on Wednesday when we did our conversation with Bronco, which is on

1:40.7

the Patreon, by the way, if people want to listen to it. You know, I was already feeling then

1:44.8

that there was this kind of emerging narrative that, you know, actually things sort of, you know,

1:49.9

they went, they went according to plan. Don't worry, everyone. It was always supposed to be a close election.

1:55.5

Yeah, it was always going to be close, yada, yada. And, you know, I found that's really only intensified as more states, you know,

2:04.2

Georgia, it looks like, is going to flip. Biden probably won Pennsylvania too. So, I mean,

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