#519 - Triangle of Badness

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If all of our current class hierarchies were eliminated, what would replace them? This question is at the core of TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022), the art-house hit that show the limits of being an "equal-opportunity offender." PLUS: campus protests, keffiyeh bans, and the state of the publishing industry. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "No One Buys Books" by Elle Griffin - https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books "The Delusional Triangle of Sadness" by Armond White - https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/the-delusional-triangle-of-sadness/ "Triangle of Sadness" review by Richard Brody - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/triangle-of-sadness-reviewed-were-on-a-yacht-and-were-puking "Triangle of Sadness" review by Gabe Klinger - https://letterboxd.com/gabeklinger/film/triangle-of-sadness/

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0:00.0	If I had a million dollars, if I had a million dollars, well, I'd buy you a house.
0:10.6	I would buy you a house.
0:13.4	I want to tell the folks about some of the classic, like, podcasting bloopers and blunders.
0:18.5	If you're recording on Zoom or on, you know, some online platform,
0:22.9	there's like, is your mic connected to the laptop? That's a big one. Is the input audio device
0:27.7	the mic and not the laptop microphone? Did you remember to press record? These are all
0:33.8	classic. Classic. I don't know, man. It's real breaking the fourth wall.
0:38.9	I have to say, I feel a little naked kind of letting people who aren't podcasters in on this process.
0:44.7	It feels very intimate, you know, giving them a peek behind the scenes, like to kind of some of the things that are on our minds.
0:49.9	Like, are the mics on?
0:51.4	Are the inputs correct?
0:52.9	Can we see each other?
0:54.0	Can we hear about each other?
0:55.2	Just some tricks of the trade for all you folks listening at home. Classic thing. You open the Zoom.
1:00.2	You see the other person. So that's great. You've made the video link. The internet is working.
1:04.6	They start to talk. You hear nothing. And then it's like, okay, is it a problem on my end? Is it a problem on his end? You're convinced it's not a problem on your end. They're convinced it is a problem on your end. You're trying to have this debate while you can't even hear the other person. This is classic podcast stuff. Anyway, welcome to Michael and us. I am Will Sloan here as always with. Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. So can I start by just
1:29.0	quoting a tweet that I saw today? Again, classic podcast intro. This is by one Will Stancel. I don't
1:35.8	know who Will Stancel is. I see his name. Oh, dear. You're not in on the Will Stancel discourse.
1:42.9	He's a real discourse guy. I'm in on it because I see him all
1:46.0	the time. I don't know who he is. Who is Will Stancel? Can you explain Will Stancel to me briefly?
1:50.9	He's a discourse guy. He's a guy that appears in the discourse. He does discourse. There's
1:55.6	discourse about him. Yeah, that's all you need to know. And I refuse to learn anything more than that.
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