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Michael and Us

#578 - Final Offer

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Canadian documentary FINAL OFFER (1985) captures the contentious negotiations between General Motors and the Canadian wing of the United Auto Workers Union. We consider the conditions that allowed a the union triumph against the backdrop of Reagan/Mulroney-era austerity. PLUS: Taking the temperature on Canada's economic "vibe-cession," and what does Trump's tariff threat to Canada actually mean? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus Watch FINAL OFFER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYNwc0KuGTc&ab_channel=NFB "Democratic Elites Embraced the Identity Politics They Decry" by Branko Marcetic - https://jacobin.com/2024/11/democratic-elites-identity-politics-sanders Check out "Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics" - https://www.ubcpress.ca/shifting-gears Our episode on the Flint Sit-Down Strike - https://www.patreon.com/posts/514-sit-down-sit-101918612

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0:00.0

To the lonely summer lovers, when the leaves begin to fall, here's to the losers.

0:10.9

I can hear you.

0:13.9

Amazing.

0:14.7

Amazing.

0:15.7

Love to punch in another day at the podcast factory.

0:19.5

Yeah, we're not in the same room right now. I'm actually at a

0:23.7

cottage in Port Franks, Ontario. My little getaway was interrupted yesterday because I had to drive

0:30.3

all the way back to Toronto to take my dog to the vet. He got a little infection in his butt, folks,

0:43.3

in his butt. Pet ownership is not always the glamorous lifestyle that you may assume. Well, Will, this, the room behind you, if I may say, it's very bland, at least from the angle that I'm seeing.

0:49.3

You know, none of your bookshelves with like the memoirs of obscure filmmakers or, you know, the seven volume

0:55.7

Eric Roberts' biography that you have. I prefer that as the Misan Sen when we do these remote episodes.

1:01.9

Sometimes I like to come here and just live the Paul Schrader lifestyle. You know, I come here.

1:07.2

I self-abnegate. I whip myself a couple of times. And from that emerges genius. From that,

1:14.6

I come recharged. Oh, so look, folks, we got to talk about the news. News has been happening.

1:21.3

Both sides of the border. Yeah, but before we get to the Canadian news, which will dominate

1:25.4

much of this episode, this is going to be a Canadian-themed episode, folks. Can I ask you if you've seen this tweet that was put out by

1:32.4

the Democrats? Yes, those Democrats at the Democrats. The Democrats you think of when you think of

1:39.2

the Democrats, they put out a meme on the platform formerly known as Twitter that said,

1:44.6

Democrats claimed four Senate victories in four states the Trump won.

1:49.4

That's the most Senate races lost in states won by the presidential winners party since 2004.

1:55.9

And then it says, fact.

1:58.6

Which is another way of saying our presidential candidate was so unpopular that a bunch of

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