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Michael and Us: iPhone, Therefore I Am

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🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As Canadians, we simply couldn't pass up a movie about our greatest national export. Matt Johnson's BLACKBERRY (2023) puts a darkly comic spin on the rise and fall of "the phone you had before your iPhone." We discuss the ways that this very funny film is both similar to and crucially different from such recent boardroom dramas as AIR. PLUS: the return of Pete Buttigieg, and a weekend with the world's most prolific songwriter.


If you watch only one movie on Will's recommendation in your life, make it LOCAL LEGENDS - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/locallegends


"BlackBerryIs a Movie That Portrays Tech Dreams Honestly—Finally" by John Semley - https://www.wired.com/story/blackberry-movie-review/


Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.



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You know Clint Eastwood famously never yells action on set because as an actor himself

0:21.0

he has the theory that saying action you know it's such a harsh tough word it breaks

0:26.9

actors internal concentration so what he typically does is say something like when you're

0:31.7

ready you know that's actually true and so is this a parable about how instead of saying

0:37.4

okay we're rolling or something like that you just need to have the mics running when

0:41.4

I come back into the studio I guess it started that way but then I was also thinking like

0:45.4

if I were a famous film director you see when he says it it makes sense to me and I think

0:50.3

he's right action that's really harsh that would excuse me I am I am the Clint Eastwood

0:55.9

podcasting yeah that would spook the horses but then if I were a film director and I I decided

1:01.1

to do it like he does I think everyone would look at me and say what do you do you think

1:05.2

you're Clint Eastwood like you're ripping off Clint Eastwood so I think I would probably

1:10.4

just say action like anyone well the point is we are rolling welcome back earliest I think

1:15.5

we are welcome back to Michael and us I'm Will Sloan here is always with yeah Luke Savage

1:21.0

welcome back folks it's Victoria Day the nation is celebrating our great 19th century monarch

1:28.2

big day for Prince King Charles as well yeah mere weeks after celebrating our great 21st century

1:34.6

monarch that's right so it's a stat holiday in Canada but we're in the studio there is no

1:39.5

natural light around us right now there's a big sign that says innovation over us for reasons

1:44.7

that I won't go into there are several different studios that we record in so there's the Gore

1:49.4

Lieberman studios with a bulk of our episodes have been done there's the Dalton begin to

1:53.3

e-center for sensible governance where some episodes have been done and here we're in the general

1:57.6

Wesley Clark headquarters which is a kind of like bigger complex that facilitates you know cross

2:03.0

pollination and collaboration between a lot of different enterprise right synergy which is

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