Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Filehaus
Recent
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

#612 - The Classical Work That All of Us Have Done (Patreon)

Published:
2025-04-05 17:25:22
Imported:
2026-06
haven't archived this post yet. have a subscription? use the importer!

Downloads

  • #612 - The Classical Work That All of Us Have Done.mp3
  • #612 - The Classical Work That All of Us Have Done.mp3

Missing 1 full-res photo, 2 files.

Content

In 2011, William Shatner directed a documentary where he interviewed all of his fellow Star Trek captains. But the resulting film, THE CAPTAINS (2011), accidentally became the beloved ham's hilarious, revealing, and occasionally moving self-portrait. PLUS: How the Trump tariffs upended Canadian politics.

The Newsroom: Season 1 - A Michael & Us Playlist - https://www.patreon.com/collection/1429433

TORONTO: See Will introduce VEERANA at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, April 8 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/important-cinema-club-masterpiece-classics-veerana/

Files

Previews only

Comments

Kramer O'Neill

The Chaplin house is a wild visit – really neat but also run by an odd wax museum company so sometimes you'll enter a room and all of a sudden: oh damn, there's Charlie (or Oona, or the kids)! Just hangin' out. The most unexpected detail is that Chaplin's/Oona's beautifully-maintained graves in a nearby cemetery are only a few meters away from the neglected, seemingly-rarely-visited final resting place of one James Mason.

Jeremy Hawkins

I think that the Cory Booker thing is slightly more interesting than you’re giving it credit for. Of course, it was an empty stunt, but so was the stunt a couple weeks ago with the little black signs that said things like “liar” and “save medicare” but people hated that. I think it’s important to probe why that is. If you were to ask a thousand people what they think needs to be done to combat Trump, a huge chunk will say that the Democrats need to say the things that he said during that speech, they’ll say that they need to amplify voices, and during the speech Cory read things written by normal people voicing their concerns, and just on a fundamental level they appreciate the Jerry Lewisian stamina of standing for more than a day. One of the major roles of socialists at this moment is showing not only how liberals will betray the working class, like with the rail strike and the post BLM “fund, fund, fund, the police.” stance (which was of course always their policy but nonetheless) but that they can’t even win on their own terms and this is the perfect example of that and providing a path forward that makes sense and can actually engage in.

Horseloverfat

Chaplin wrote his scripts in hanzi — this is well known, and obviously what caused Brecht to say “damn, this shit china style”.

Blank

🎶 You said come in / and I said 🎶 *Trump clip* I’m gonna come

Taylor

Zen mode activated

Chris Sherman

Crying tears of joy, love this movie couldn’t be happier you chose it

Stephen French

No expert but the Brecht Chinese comment is about an essay he wrote: whatistheatrereally.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/brecht-alienation-effects-in-chinese-acting.pdf

Alexander Wreford

Very strange moment to hear my uncle on Michael and Us (he did the voiceover for the The Captains commercial), small world!

aaron

"did that just go out?" I love it when fellow xfm enjoyers reveal a little of their power-level, Will from chapo drops the occasional Karlism too and it's always a joy

Myles Bartoli

Just a little reminder Shatner’s output of one the greatest middle/old age existential pop tracks ever - It Hasn’t Happened Yet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7GnoLJIIS4w&pp=ygUec2hhdG5lciBpdCBoYXNuJ3QgaGFwcGVuZWQgeWV0

Jake

Was this doc covered in a prior Michael and Us ep? I’m having major Deja vu

Bones

Kate Mulgrew rolled Shatner up and smoked him in her interview but the part of this movie that lives rent free in my head is when he is complimenting Avery Brooks on how beautiful his wife is and he gives Shatner this Look and shrugs it off with idk man talk to her parents about that.

Graeme Pente
>>170076180

I think on a purely symbolic level there's some merit to taking the record away from Strom Thurmond, too.

piranhaplant
>>170169346

They've talked about that exchange between William Shatner and Sir Patrick Stewart before. It's part of the collective memory of Michael and Us nation, an important moment shared by two actors who've done lots of classical work.

Ciaran Colley

Great way to play out the episode

Tyler Plunkett
>>170169346

I am also having Deja vu with this one. I’m thinking they covered a Star Trek fan documentary or something like that? But can’t seem to find an episode matching that description. Strange.

ChapoFan inParis

I love Cory Booker's performative callback to a tactic most famously deployed to block civil rights legislation.

foreversincebreakfast

About 15 years ago I called into the Boston NPR show On Point when Shatner was the guest. I asked him about his music career and he was surprisingly excited to discuss it.

Oliver Elliott

I’ll cut Canada some slack on Carney. I suspect most people want some kind of unity government to deal with the U.S. Canada really is being threatened with something you could credibly call economic warfare. At the very least it’s imperialist extortion. Not surprising that people might want someone that seems stable and isn’t going to turn too many people off.