#623 - Occupy Sorkin (Newsroom Part 11)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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After a healthy break, we finally return to Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM. In the first episode of season two ("First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers"), we find Will McAvoy and his team learning of a movement to Occupy Wall Street and debating the ethics of predator drones. PLUS: A roundup of American politics news, including David Hogg, Joe Biden, and a Woodstock for centrists. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus Catch up on our coverage of The Newsroom's first season - https://www.patreon.com/collection/1429433 See Luke interview Grace Blakeley at the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture on May 20 - https://broadbentinstitute.ca/events/2025-ellen-meiksins-wood-lecture/ Subscribe to Luke's Substack - https://www.lukewsavage.com/ Will's book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA - https://orbooks.com/catalog/ed-wood/

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0:00.0	Bam, the newsroom, season two.
0:02.3	Welcome to Michael and us.
0:03.4	I'm Will Sloan.
0:04.4	Here is always with.
0:05.4	Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.
0:07.1	I was going to say we're raring to go.
0:09.6	And, you know, I'm not.
0:11.1	Well, in a way, I mean, we were off last week, at least unusually for this show.
0:16.7	So no free up last week.
0:18.5	Apologies for that.
0:19.7	What can I say?
0:21.1	Luke was sick.
0:21.9	I was, yeah, I was sick and Will kind of had to scramble to get a guest for the other
0:26.2	episode.
0:26.7	And Luke, in his period of recovery, kind of wanted to ease back into work.
0:31.0	I think he's still feeling some of the effects of sickness.
0:33.1	He wanted some nice chicken soup for the soul, you know?
0:36.2	Yeah, and we found it.
0:37.9	No, we are beginning another foray into the newsroom,
0:42.6	picking up where we left off, what, eight weeks ago, something like that,
0:45.8	maybe not that long ago.
0:47.0	So, yeah, to be clear, Aaron Sorkens, the newsroom is something that we have mostly covered
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