Michael and Us: Money Never Tweets

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In 1987, Oliver Stone introduced the world to a man who was not your daddy's capitalist: Gordon Gekko. We revisit WALL STREET to consider the strengths and limitations of its distinctly New Deal Liberal perspective on American capitalism; to marinate in the particular left-liberal Boomer perspective of Stone; and determine once and for all if greed is, in fact, good.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloane here as usual with Luke Savage. It's
0:21.4	good to be back. So you were in Canada's beautiful Algonquin Park for how many days? I was
0:28.0	five days, four nights, but five days, like including the day I went into the park and the day I
0:33.3	came out, which were both also very full days and we went a really long way coming in and out. So
0:39.5	yeah, pretty pretty amazing. I've definitely never done anything like that before. It's both exhausting
0:44.8	and exhilarating. You don't really get tired even though you're kind of like sleeping. I mean,
0:49.9	it's camping. So you're just like sleeping. There's like a camp map between you and the ground inside
0:54.5	your tent. And I mean, there is truly an emptiness and a silence in there that I don't think I've ever
1:00.0	experienced before. Like once you get out of kind of the main, you know, there are different ways.
1:04.5	Algonquin Park is huge and you know, it was amazing like looking at the map after I came out kind of
1:09.4	knowing a little bit more about the northwest corner of it, which is where I was. It feels so big when
1:14.2	you're in there, like just the part you're in and you look and your pinky finger just like covers
1:19.2	like a tiny little sliver of the park, like you'd have to go in, you know, 50 or 60 times to actually
1:24.9	see the whole park. But once you get outside of kind of like the initial lake where, you know,
1:30.0	there tend to be more people camping because it's close by. Like you just barely see anybody. The very
1:34.8	last night, my friend and I, I guess on our on our fourth day, we did this really difficult
1:39.7	portage over two kilometers into something called Lauren Lake, which was a smaller lake than any of
1:45.8	the other ones we'd been to. There were five campsites in there, not a single one occupied and we
1:50.1	did not see a single soul in there the whole time. Like we were in there for more than 24 hours
1:55.1	because the portage is coming in and out. We're too difficult and people were in attempting them.
1:59.0	So all the cliches they say about this kind of trip, you disconnect, you switch off. All true,
2:04.8	it turns out. And all those things, it also turns out are pretty amazing. So I really, really enjoyed
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