#294 - Everything is Awesome

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

For months we've been immersing ourselves in such Intellectual Property soups as Ready Player One, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and The Simpsons in Plusaversary, so we felt it was time to examine the animated hit that helped birth this new phenomenon: THE LEGO MOVIE (2014). PLUS: the return of COVID, a bad week for the Democrats, and the actual, honest-to-goodness phenomenon of official Rifkin's Festival NFTs. "What’s behind global covid inequalities? Corporate greed" by Luke Savage - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/covid-vaccine-corporatism-inequality/ "Beyond NFT: DAMOVE company is building the future of movies & entertainment" - https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/beyond-nft-damove-company-is-building-the-future-of-movies-entertainment#ixzz7FW3eISjz Learn more about Rifkin's Festival NFTs - https://twitter.com/RifkinsfestNft

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0:00.0	Everything is our song
0:02.0	Everything is cool when you're part of a team
0:06.0	Everything is our song
0:09.0	When we live in our dream
0:12.0	Let me tell you I'm definitely getting some bad vibes from everything right now
0:17.0	It definitely feels like in the span of a few days
0:20.0	We went back to something.
0:22.5	I mean, it's already like two or three days into this. This already feels like a kind of
0:26.6	cliche talking point. But, you know, everyone's pointing out how much the past few days have
0:31.8	felt like March of 2020. I would add to that, though, that a lot more people, just anecdotally, a lot more people seem to be getting COVID.
0:40.3	And I guess the numbers bear that out as well.
0:42.2	I mean, one of the ironies of the pandemic, if it is an irony, is that in the first, you know, few months,
0:47.8	in those first few weeks, especially when I think, you know, most of us were probably taking the most precautions.
0:54.6	The actual cases were quite low.
0:56.8	It wasn't until, you know, the following winter, I guess, that they really, really started
1:00.9	to spike when there was kind of the second and then the, and then the third wave, which I guess
1:04.9	was last spring.
1:06.0	But here we are.
1:07.0	Despite all the vaccinations, we seem to be in a fourth COVID wave. So not getting good vibes
1:12.6	from most things right now. I guess welcome back to Mike and us. Stay safe and healthy out there,
1:18.2	everyone. Yeah, I've been helping an ailing relative. So I just look out the window and see that
1:23.5	stuff's happening and think, oh, I guess something's happening outside. I mean, you say that as
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