CW: While we don't dwell on the subject in our discussion, the film itself deals a bit with the topic of suicidal thoughts, and honestly handles them lightly, jokingly, which I could see bothering or upsetting someone if they held related trauma. Use your best discretion; there's nothing wrong with skipping episodes with our show.

We hope you aren't mad as hell that this episode took a while to edit, and that you're still planning to take it. This is Michael's pick: we're talking about the 1976 classic people-talking-in-rooms movie, Network! This conversation goes places. The movie stays in New York, but it still gets pretty deep and entertaining. If you haven't seen it yet or recently, it wasn't streaming when we recorded, but now it seems to be available on HBO Max.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/...​

https://letterboxd.com/film/network/​

By the way, I (Michael) have since seen Broadcast News, and while both films involve questioning how the news works and both films have a love affair that starts and ends within the scope of the narrative, they are pretty different films when you get down to it, with BN being a lot more focused on the individual characters' lives and personalities while Network seems concerned more with industries, collectives, and people in the broadest sense. It is still a good movie and worth watching, but for me personally, Network is much more interesting an artifact.

Next time, we're doing a Japanese classic, the Ballad of Narayama, which is on Criterion Channel. Make sure to watch the older version, not the remake. Thanks for listening!

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