#602 - Prestige Slop

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Imagine someone fed the last 10-or-so years of American liberal politics into an A.I. machine and told it to create a Netflix miniseries. Friends... you don't have to imagine. We discuss Robert De Niro in ZERO DAY (2025), the bilge water at the bottom of the prestige-TV. PLUS: Checking in on the Canadian Liberal Party leadership race, and what ever happened to the Garfield Eats guy? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "The problem with Carney-ism" by Luke Savage - https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-problem-with-carney-ism "How TV Became Respectable Without Getting Better" by Matt Christman - https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/05/how-tv-became-respectable-without-getting-better "Casual Viewing" by Will Tavlin - https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

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0:00.0	But now the dog's in and I'm out.
0:04.2	I've got no John.
0:06.6	I've got no cloud.
0:08.8	Well, welcome to Michael and us.
0:10.0	I'm Will Sloan.
0:10.8	Here, as always with.
0:11.7	Luke Savage.
0:12.4	Welcome back, everyone.
0:13.5	Some exciting Toronto news, actually, to kick things off.
0:16.4	We like to keep people apprised of what's happening in Canada.
0:19.4	You all remember Garfield Eats?
0:22.0	We had the Garfield themed restaurant here in Toronto.
0:25.1	Actually, you may not remember this.
0:26.7	This was a subject of local interest.
0:28.9	And it's a few years back now, right?
0:30.8	I think Garfield Eats was sadly killed off by the pandemic in 2022.
0:35.1	Yeah, it was, and I'm sorry if we're repeating something that we said back in 2019 and multiple times since then, but it was in the Bloordale neighborhood of Toronto.
0:44.3	And for a long time, it was just under construction. And there was this great picture in the window while it was under construction of Garfield, the cat, you know, you all know him, he hates Mondays, and he had a speech bubble
0:55.8	coming out that said, here's my friend Nathan, who's turned me into a pizza. And the next one was
1:00.2	this photo of Nathan Masary, who was dressed like a sort of like King Street success win guy.
1:07.2	Does Garfield like pizza? I thought he's a lasagna guy.
1:10.9	This is an interesting little bit of Garfield lore. I read this in the Garfield 20th anniversary book, which I had when I was a kid. Garfield's pushing 50 now.
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