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Michael and Us

#197 - Winter Light

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A lot of us are feeling cold, isolated, and depressed right now, so what better time to revisit Ingmar Bergman's WINTER LIGHT (1963)? We discuss crises of various kinds of faith, and the personal and political implications of the silence of God. PLUS: Why won't the pundit class (and specifically Paul Krugman) get behind a $2000 stimulus?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Michael and Us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

0:19.2

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. Almost happy new year.

0:22.7

End of a very long year. It's been a hard year. I think it's fair to say. Happy to see it end.

0:28.7

There's the mother of all cliches. Did you enjoy the year? Let me, let me put it this way.

0:33.6

I very much enjoyed January 1st till, I don know about March 2nd or 3rd what when was

0:39.6

Super Tuesday I enjoyed that part of the year and I enjoyed things last kind of in the subsequent

0:45.2

weeks and then I think the lockdown in Toronto started on something like the 17th of March and

0:51.0

I've enjoyed the year a lot less since then you You know, one of the few things that I did

0:55.4

in public this year because it happened in January is I went to see bad boys too at the,

1:02.2

God, what mall is it? What's the name of that? Yorkdale Mall. That's right. I love you. You haven't,

1:09.8

you haven't been outside your apartment for so long. You've forgotten the names of physical, Yorkdale Mall, that's right. I love you, you haven't, you haven't been outside your

1:11.0

apartment for so long, you've forgotten the names of physical locations you used to visit.

1:15.7

Yorkdale Mall might be out of business for all I know now. And yeah, I remember seeing that in

1:20.3

public and having a warm feeling watching it, you know, I have no affection for the bad boys franchise, but I remember thinking, you know, it's,

1:27.8

it's nice to see two guys, you know, it's nice to be back in, in this world that reminds me of

1:32.8

happier days. And I remember thinking that because it was cold out mostly. So it was nice to see,

1:37.9

like, some guys hanging out in Miami who have known each other for a long time. And now that things have gotten even worse, I mean, if they make a bad boy's four, I will be there

1:48.3

at a heartbeat.

1:49.6

And I keep thinking, I swear this is going somewhere.

1:53.2

Actually, it's not going anywhere.

1:54.7

I keep thinking just how happy I would be, how overwhelmed with joy I would be if, like,

1:59.3

I turned on Netflix and rush hour four just showed up

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