#357 - A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and discovered that Howard Beale's famous speech isn't even the most important speech in the movie. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	It's going to be the age of humankind standing up for something pure and something right.
0:05.0	What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democrat, conservative, Republican.
0:09.0	It's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin.
0:12.0	Two management teams, bidding for control, the CEO job of slavery incorporated.
0:18.0	The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay off this buffet of lies.
0:22.5	I'm sick of it, and I'm not going to take a bite out of it.
0:25.3	Do you got me?
0:26.5	Resistance is not futile.
0:28.5	We're going to win this thing.
0:30.0	Human kind is too good.
0:31.5	We're not a bunch of underachievers.
0:33.3	We're going to stand up, and we're going to be human beings.
0:35.9	We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter.
0:39.5	Creativity and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
0:44.4	Well, that's it.
0:45.0	That's all I got to say.
0:46.1	It's in your court.
0:47.5	That's quite a vista behind you.
0:49.4	Yes, I'm broadcasting from a boiler room in a house in Cortona in southern Tuscany. Let me see.
0:57.8	This is some equipment from a vacuum. I don't know. It's all, it's all, it's all pretty ugly.
1:02.9	It does, it's not what I thought was going to be behind you. When, when we scheduled this recording
1:06.9	session, I kind of imagined you'd be on like a beautiful sun-kissed balcony and the ocean would be behind you or something like that or maybe I'd see the Alps somewhere in the shot. So I feel a little bit let down, but I trust that you're enjoying being outside of Toronto.
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