#594 - Guilty Pleasures (Newsroom Part 4)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Our journey through Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM arrives at Episode 4 ("I'll Try to Fix You"), in which the power of a conscientiously-run newsroom helps save Gabby Giffords' life, and Will McAvoy takes a courageous stand against gossip in all its forms. The news is overwhelmingly bad right now, so we frankly had a nice time retreating to 2012. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, didn't see you there.
0:10.3	Welcome back to Michael and Us.
0:12.0	As always, I'm Luke Savage, and with me is my intrepid co-host, who's very angry that I've started doing this off the top of the show and supplanted him.
0:19.7	Oh, it's Luke.
0:20.4	Of all the gin joints and all the world, he should wander into mine.
0:24.2	Hello there.
0:25.0	I am Will Sloan.
0:26.2	Yeah, here's looking at you, kid.
0:27.9	Well, we're back, obviously.
0:30.4	And God, we have, I mean, this episode of the newsroom we watched this week is one of the most insane pieces of TV I have
0:40.1	ever seen. And I know that when we talk about Aaron Sorkin especially, we use a lot of hyperbole.
0:46.1	It's very hard, given the way he writes his shows, you know, not to use kind of maximalist
0:51.1	language all the time. But here, there's no hyperbole. I'm not being, you know,
0:55.7	ironic. This isn't a bit. This was the most incredible episode of the newsroom so far by a long
1:01.4	shot. And I'm like vibrating to talk about it. Like Will and I had a 1 p.m. time set up to record.
1:08.8	And I almost messaged him like 40 minutes early to be like, can we
1:12.3	begin? Like I have to get this out of me right now. Like I'm so fucking excited to talk about this.
1:19.2	Well, yes. And just to bring listeners up to speed, we are letting the free feed in on the
1:25.3	newsroom series on patreon.com slash Michael and us, we're going to have an ongoing
1:30.1	project of covering every episode of Aaron Sorkins, The Newsroom, on our Patreon this week,
1:35.9	part two of our discussion of Inland Empire by David Lynch. And we thought, now that we're four
1:40.4	episodes in, it's time to let the free feed in on, you know, just a, just a status
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