Podcast appearances and mentions of Howard Beale

Nearly 50 years later, Network still feels like it was made for today's media landscape. In this episode of So Many Sequels, we break down the chilling relevance of the 1976 Oscar-winning satire, from Howard Beale's mad prophet act to the rise of infotainment and emotion-driven news.We explore Howard Beale's unforgettable descent, Faye Dunaway's ice-cold performance as the power-hungry network exec, and the film's razor-sharp commentary on corporate control, sensationalized news, and the blurred lines between entertainment and journalism.Have you seen Network? What stuck with you? Drop your thoughts in the comments! SUBSCRIBE for more film deep-dives!Listen to the full podcast & browse our episodes: SoManySequels.comFollow us on Instagram: @SoManySequelsPod #Network1976 #MoviePodcast #HowardBeale #ClassicMovies #Oscars #MediaSatire #SoManySequels

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" This is a line from the 1976 movie Network. The line is spoken by Howard Beale, a character who is angry about the state of America. The executive vice president at a huge bank asked where I was from. "So you left that cesspool to move up here," he said. I said, "Why are so many of you so jealous of New York, is it an inferiority complex?" (This guy was later cashiered because of massive sexual harassment charges.) Then you have the passive-aggressive types: "I assume your daughter's school as her backup school"? "No, but you wouldn't know how good it is because your kids could never get in and you could never pay for it." My first Ferrari: "Look, you can't afford the insurance and she could never learn to drive it." Three Ferraris later, he put me into the first Bentley sports car for $150,000 to try to buy my good will. I've now had seven Bentley's. Stop taking crap from people. When the woman in the coffee shop was rude twice in a row, I told the owner, whom I've known since he opened up 20 years ago. "I'll take care of it," he said. She's all peaches and cream now. Prudence is required. I don't respond to poor driving. I don't want to encourage road rage. But I have taken movies of truck doing 40 on the main street, and a state bus tailgating at six feet behind cars. I received very thankful notes from the trucking company and the Rhode Island transit people. How will they know if no one tells them? I stop donating to causes that are poorly run, don't conduct quality events, and constantly berate me as if I'm an ATM. I hang up on every phone solicitation. The gym knows that when I'm there, if they can, they don't play rap music featuring the "N-word," or "mother F," or any other Fbomb, or calling women "bitches." That's not a matter of taste. It's revolting. Should they show porn videos on the wall, as well? I don't try to please other people's accounting departments and their affectations. They don't need a W2 from me, I'm a corporation. I don't send invoices for minor amounts. And I'm on them like the wrath of God if they owe me money past the due date. And speaking of God: Jesus said to turn the other cheek, but he never said to let them keep hitting you.

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore" This is a line from the 1976 movie Network. The line is spoken by Howard Beale, a character who is angry about the state of America. The executive vice president at a huge bank asked where I was from. "So you left that cesspool to move up here," he said. I said, "Why are so many of you so jealous of New York, is it an inferiority complex?" (This guy was later cashiered because of massive sexual harassment charges.) Then you have the passive-aggressive types: "I assume your daughter's school as her backup school"? "No, but you wouldn't know how good it is because your kids could never get in and you could never pay for it." My first Ferrari: "Look, you can't afford the insurance and she could never learn to drive it." Three Ferraris later, he put me into the first Bentley sports car for $150,000 to try to buy my good will. I've now had seven Bentley's. Stop taking crap from people. When the woman in the coffee shop was rude twice in a row, I told the owner, whom I've known since he opened up 20 years ago. "I'll take care of it," he said. She's all peaches and cream now. Prudence is required. I don't respond to poor driving. I don't want to encourage road rage. But I have taken movies of truck doing 40 on the main street, and a state bus tailgating at six feet behind cars. I received very thankful notes from the trucking company and the Rhode Island transit people. How will they know if no one tells them? I stop donating to causes that are poorly run, don't conduct quality events, and constantly berate me as if I'm an ATM. I hang up on every phone solicitation. The gym knows that when I'm there, if they can, they don't play rap music featuring the "N-word," or "mother F," or any other Fbomb, or calling women "bitches." That's not a matter of taste. It's revolting. Should they show porn videos on the wall, as well? I don't try to please other people's accounting departments and their affectations. They don't need a W2 from me, I'm a corporation. I don't send invoices for minor amounts. And I'm on them like the wrath of God if they owe me money past the due date. And speaking of God: Jesus said to turn the other cheek, but he never said to let them keep hitting you.

In this episode of Badlands Story Hour, hosted by Chris Paul and Burning Bright, we dive deep into Sidney Lumet's 1976 film Network, exploring its chilling relevance to today's media landscape. The movie's portrayal of media manipulation, corporate control, and the construction of reality through television is dissected with a sharp focus on how these themes echo in modern infotainment. We discuss the timeless narrative of Howard Beale as a "mad prophet" and its parallels to contemporary news and entertainment, touching on how corporations shape public perception and profit from the stories they tell. Tune in for a thought-provoking analysis of how fiction becomes reality, from Hollywood to the newsrooms of today.

SERIES 3 EPISODE 64: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Yeah, I heard it too. I heard him he "shouldn't have left" the White House when his term ended. And I heard him say AT his rally that he wouldn't mind people shooting at the reporters COVERING his rally. And I guess it's shocking. Except he's been saying these things (a little more coded) since 2015, and he said the shooting thing about Liz Cheney last Thursday night. And after all he is going through what the shrinks call “disinhibition” AT the rallies where he loses all sense of what he should say in private not public. But that's not what got me. I heard something I have never heard before. WHEN he said he wouldn't mind people shooting the "fake news," he said he wouldn't mind them shooting THROUGH "the fake news" - THROUGH it - AT him. Doesn't that sound kind of… what's the word? Suicidal? Plus: I understand that we are inside the 48 hour bubble before the election and the pressure is like 887 Atmospheric Units and our rage against this creature and his cult that wants to burn this country to the ground – burn this world to the ground – and our amazement that there is ANYBODY voting for him – that RAGE is at unbearable levels – but… didn't he sound kinda dead yesterday? At one point he was inaudible. At another, in North Carolina, he thought he was in Pennsylvania. Throughout, he sounded exactly like Hal the Computer in the movie “2001” when they unplugged him. PRACTICALLY SPEAKING on the eve of the election, the polls continue to support a Harris victory (size TBD) and this shocking poll where she's up by 3 in Iowa hides an even more shocking number (she's ahead by 20 among women in the whitest part of the midwest). And the reaction to the pollster who published this 21 point swing from June tells you all you need to know about polling. They have previously insisted Ann Selser was an immortal. Now they're saying she's making the rest of them look bad by not tailoring her poll to fit their narrative. B-Block (30:33) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A Trumpist has vowed to "castrate himself on camera" if Harris wins Iowa (if you're a Trumpist, haven't you already castrated yourself?). Chris Cillizza 2024 mocks everybody who didn't buy the conventional wisdom about the vice presidency (evidently including Chris Cillizza 2020, who had disproved it), and courtesy Tim Alberta in The Atlantic, we find a new reason to hate Trump. This is the real reason he's so mad Biden dropped out. Trump thought he had the perfect nickname for the President - and it's appalling. C-Block (37:48) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I call it The Annual Day I Get Trapped Inside My Home Day. You know it - and may have seen it on TV yesterday - as "The New York City Marathon."  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FILMOTECAMURCIA.ES Viernes 25 de octubre / 18.30 horas / (Centenario Sidney Lumet)Network, un mundo implacable (Network; Sidney Lumet, 1976) Estados unidos. 122'. VOSE Un análisis sobre el poder de la televisión, que retrata un mundo competitivo donde el éxito y los récords de audiencia imponen su dictadura. Howard Beale, veterano presentador de un informativo nocturno, es despedido cuando baja el nivel de audiencia de su popular programa. Sin embargo, antes de abandonar la cadena, ante el asombro de todos, Beale anuncia que antes de irse se suicidará ante las cámaras, pegándose un tiro en directo en uno de los programas que le quedan. Este hecho sin precedentes provocara una gran expectación entre los televidentes y los propios compañeros de Howard. Viernes 25 de octubre / 21.15 horas / (Proyección Especial)Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984). Estados Unidos. 88'. VOSE. Recientemente restaurada en 4K para coincidir con su 40 aniversario, la película de 1984 rodada por el cineasta Jonathan Demme está considerada por la crítica como la mejor película concierto de todos los tiempos. Stop Making Sense está protagonizada por los miembros principales de la banda David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz y Jerry Harrison junto con Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry y Edna Holt. La presentación en vivo se filmó durante tres noches en el Teatro Pantages de Hollywood en diciembre de 1983 y presenta las canciones más memorables de Talking Heads. Sábado 26 de octubre / 19.00 horas / (Murcia: Plató de cine)La carta esférica (Imanol Uribe, 2007) España. 100'. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. El exmarinero Coy (Carmelo Gómez) conoce en una subasta de objetos navales a Tánger Soto (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón). Entre ellos se formará una relación que trasciende lo profesional mientras buscan un bergantín hundido que otros también ambicionan. Sábado 26 de octubre / 21.00 horas / (Cine y Fútbol: Centenario Fed. de Fútbol Reg. Murcia)Evasión o victoria (Victory; John Huston, 1981) Estados Unidos. 116'. Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1943. El comandante del campo de concentración de Gensdorff (Max von Sydow), que antes de la guerra había formado parte de la selección alemana de fútbol, se interesa por un grupo de prisioneros que practica este deporte. Se le ocurre entonces la idea de organizar un partido en el que se enfrenten una selección alemana y una selección formada por prisioneros de guerra. Aunque al principio los aliados rechazan la propuesta, al final aceptan el desafío. Domingo 27 octubre / 19.15 h. / (Murcia: Plató de cine) Entrada libre hasta completar aforoSiempre en mi recuerdo (Silvio F. Balbuena, 1962) España. 93'. Blanca Solís, famosa cantante, regresa a su ciudad natal para actuar en un festival junto con Carlos, su antiguo novio. ESTRENOS DE LA SEMANA La Joia: Bad Gyal (David Camarero, 92 min)Bad Gyal, Nicki Nicole, Karol G Documental que sigue a la exitosa cantante Bad Gyal en la vertiginosa salida de su primer álbum, La Joia. Venom: El último baile (Kelly Marcel, 109 min.)Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Chiwetel Ejyofor, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham Eddie y Venom están a la fuga. Perseguidos por sus sendos mundos y cada vez más cercados, el dúo se ve abocado a tomar una decisión devastadora que hará que caiga el telón sobre el último baile de Venom y Eddie. La gran escapada (Oliver Parker, 96 min.)Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson En el verano de 2014, Bernard Jordan, un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial de 89 años, se escapa de su residencia en la que vive junto a su mujer Rene, para unirse a sus compañeros veteranos de guerra en una playa de Normandía, conmemorando a sus camaradas caídos en el 70 aniversario del Desembarco del Día D.

In this episode of Left of the Projector, I discuss the 1976 film Network with graduate film student Andre Swai. We analyze the film's biting satire on media, focusing on Howard Beale's descent into sensationalism and Faye Dunaway's obsession with ratings. Our conversation highlights the film's critique of corporate greed and its relevance in today's media landscape as we approach 2024. We also draw connections to other films that echo similar themes, reinforcing "Network's" enduring significance in cultural commentary on the interplay between entertainment and societal values.Apologies for the quality on this one. Andre Swaihttps://www.instagram.com/andre.swaihttps://letterboxd.com/dreswai/Left of the Projector Linkshttps://www.patreon.com/LeftoftheProjectorPodhttps://boxd.it/5T9O1https://leftoftheprojector.comhttps://instagram.com/leftoftheprojectorhttp://tiktok.com/@leftoftheprojectorpodhttps://www.threads.net/@leftoftheprojector

In this 429th episode of “Elton Jim” Turano's “CAPTAIN POD-TASTIC,” Jim Turano gets “Mad As Hell” as Howard Beale in Invictus Theatre’s new stage production of “Network.”

Scorpions, Tony Soprano and Wall Street. Analyze the Analysts. Pandemic Losers…Don't Doubt Me. What is Behind Wall Street's 100+ Hour Culture More and More Lies on Inflation. Howard Beale for Fed President! $177,000 to live comfortably??? Red Tape Nation! Take a wrecking ball to our economy. Trade, Tariffs, Mercantilism. Jamie Dimon and Stock Buybacks. China Checkmate on EV's JetBlue Sucks! A Lesson in Business. How to fix department stores?? Really Bad, Scary Democracy. Lady Eloise for President. Commencement 2024: The Good the Bad the Ugly! 

What does this 1976 film, which tells the story of a failing television network, and the psychological breakdown of its primary news anchorman, Howard Beale, tell us about market forces in media and the import of ratings in generating income? Why does the programming director, Dianne Christinsen, have no problem with exploiting Beale's mental breakdown? What message is sent by the ironic fact that the communist party USA enters into contract with the network and a leftist splinter group, the Ecumenical Liberation Army to create a reality show? Are they not behaving exactly as the capitalists do? How does this film portray the cynicism in the arrangement and mirror the exploitative relationship between the establishment Communist Party and the splinter group, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the relationship between the CCA holding company, the UBS Network and Howard Beale? Why does CCA head, Arthur Jensen, sell Howard his “corporate cosmology,” yet not seem concerned as the message causes ratings to decline as Beale takes it up on the network's revamped “news” show? What does the broadcast assassination of Beale tell us about all the parties involved in the conspiracy? How does the Hollywood of the time reflect the cynicism of the 1970s? Does this film's message and “cosmology” have relevance for today's media environment?

Howard Beale for Fed President! www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Bryan talks about commiting to craft and giving up on whether you get the gig. We compare notes about growing up in the valley without adult supervision, writing, why celebrities feel better with other celebrities, the difference between Tequila and Mezcal, having kids in the arts, getting your heart broken in 5th grade, the lessons of struggling, and only doing what you are passionate about. Also we chat about the fact that, sometimes, you have to play a character just to get through real life.Bio: Bryan Cranston is an Academy Award nominee, and an Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Tony, and Olivier Award winner. He most recently starred on the second season of Showtime's hit drama series, Your Honor, which he also executive produced. On the big screen, Cranston re-teamed with Wes Anderson and starred in his ensemble feature, Asteroid City - which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was released by Focus Features and Universal Pictures globally. Additionally, Cranston stars in Matthew Vaughn's Argylle which will be released by Apple TV+ on February 2. Cranston made his Broadway debut as President Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way and produced the HBO film adaptation through his production company, Moonshot Entertainment. In 2018, Cranston starred as the iconic Howard Beale in Ivo van Hove's Network on London's West End and on Broadway. Cranston is best known for his portrayal of two very different characters - Hal on the sit-com Malcolm in the Middle, and Walter White on the drama series, Breaking Bad. Cranston is a New York Times bestselling author of A Life in Parts, where he revisits the many parts he's played on and off camera. In 2019, Cranston and his Breaking Bad co-star, Aaron Paul, released an artisanal Mezcal, “Dos Hombres”, which has grown to become the 5th bestselling mezcal in the United States.

It's a busy Tuesday on SDHWe look at Messi and Friends in Dallas, the refs who may be striking, more stupidity down here, the news of the AM, and even quote a little Howard Beale... or a lot...

This is a film review of Network (1976) one of the greatest movies of all time. Network shows how the news went from being a social service to being a for profit part of big corporate news networks. Before the late 1970's channels would lose money on the news services. However in the late 1970's that would change. CNN would be borne in 1980 as a response, thus cementing in the age of the 24 hours Soft News Cycle to replace the hard news of the past. Human interest stories, car chases, and communist terrorists dominated the air waves because they got ratings. This has only continued to get worse. Network the film predicted it all. Network also has some of the best all time monologues by Howard Beale where he goes off and explains the nature of the world. These have inspired anti globalist videos for years. Come find out how controlled the media really is. Discussed: Network (1976) Howard Beale Monologues International Banking Soft News versus Hard News   Make sure to support us by following us on:  Odysee: https: //odysee.com/@UncensoredCinefiles:4 Bonus Content on the Patreon: https: //www.patreon.com/uncensoredcinefiles

Bryan Cranston's role as Howard Beale in the Broadway rendition of 'Network' taught him something about feeling 'mad as hell' (Original Air Date: December 10th, 2018). Aaron Paul tells Stephen about the many times he thought he was being killed off "Breaking Bad" because of fake signals sent to him by co-star Bryan Cranston (Original Air Date: December 16th, 2019). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SIX MINUTES FROM THE 1976 FILM "NETWORK" STILL RELEVANT TODAY-James HohmannWashington PostNed Beatty, who died June 13, 2021 at the age of 83, appeared in more than 160 movies and television shows, mostly in minor but memorable roles — none more enduring than his bravura performance in “Network,” the 1976 film that earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.Beatty was hired a week before filming, his scene was shot in a day and he appears on screen for just six minutes near the end of a two-hour movie. But his boardroom rant as Arthur Jensen, the chairman of an over-leveraged conglomerate that owns a television network, captured the zeitgeist not only of that time, but of ours as well, laying bare the undercurrents that pit nationalism and populism against globalism and corporatism.Beatty as Jensen rages at his network's anchorman, Howard Beale, for thwarting an acquisition by the Saudis. More than four decades later, it remains one of the greatest and most resonant monologues in the history of American cinema.“You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone,” Jensen roars at Beale, the mentally ill, mad-as-hell TV host played by Peter Finch. “You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy. . . . We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. . . . The world is a business.”The movie was intended as a cultural critique amid the fallout from Watergate, Vietnam and stagflation. With its dark satire of TV culture, “Network” is mostly remembered as an indictment of the corrupting temptations of chasing ratings. The film presciently anticipates the rise of reality TV, as well as cable news programming that focuses more on entertaining — and agitating — than informing. Watching it 45 years later, the movie feels like a harbinger of two men who once hosted their own shows — Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump — becoming president.Beatty's six-minute turn in “Network” remains his masterpiece, and its message is just as sharp now, if not sharper. “The nations of the world today,” he rails, are IBM, ITT, AT&T, DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. If that corporate roster sounds a bit dated, it is difficult to consider its 21st-century version, studded with social media and Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, and conclude that Beatty's message is any less relevant.

Odds and Ends: Dr. Josh Matthews from the Learning About Movies channel on Youtube joins us this week; Moose watches a Die Hard, and the rest of us did our due diligence as moviegoers and had a Barbieheimer weekend Feature Film: We're mad as hell for Sidney Lumet's "Network." Well, most of us are. The ones who are proper film critics and have the true, correct opinion on all movies. The other just has... their own opinion. Is that what being woke is? Am I now just like Howard Beale? I must speak my witness! Next week's movie: Dark City (1998) You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on Twitch and Youtube! Available in podcast form on all your favorite podcatchers! Twitch // twitch.tv/ThereWillBeDuds Our guest // @LearningaboutMovies Substack // https://learningaboutmovies.substack.... Crew: TJ // twitch.tv/JSpotJackCheese Nick // twitch.tv/DrFunkPhD Tommy // twitch.tv/moosefromthegame Socials: linktr.ee/ThereWillBeDuds YouTube // There Will Be Duds Twitter // @ThereWillBeDuds Facebook // There Will Be Duds Instagram // ThereWillBeDuds TikTok // @ThereWillBeDuds --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/there-will-be-duds/support

EPISODE 213: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT:  Joe Biden has still won the debt deal but now there is the chance that not only will Kevin McCarthy will lose it, but so will Joe Manchin. That putrid, unreliable, self-aggrandizing, self-inflating, fraudulent, sheep-in-sheep's clothing Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has managed to stick the permitting legislation for his favorite project to accelerate the end of life on the planet from catastrophic climate change, the good old Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline. But Senator Tim Kaine is moving to remove the good old Mountain Valley Pipeline from the deal, since it's “completely unrelated to the debt ceiling matter” and of course it IS completely unrelated to it, and Kaine will file an amendment to get it cut the hell out of the bill. Because if President Biden would like to piss away the good will of averting a default that never should have been in play but Democrats in the House slept through the lame duck and Democrats in the White House apparently didn't know about the 14th Amendment until a couple of weeks ago… and if President Biden would like to piss away the triumph of his victory over McCarthy, and if President Biden would like to piss away the early signs of a significant poll bump – Biden 46-44 in the Echelon Insights national poll, Biden 47-43 in the Clarity national poll, just out last night, and if President Biden would like to piss away all that, the way to do it is to umbrella this albatross of the Joe Manchin's Integrity Memorial Pipeline into the Debt Deal. Plus: MAGA Chip Roy on the House Rules Committee is now pretending there is a secret deal for only unanimous votes to move bills like this onto the floor, and another MAGA Dusty Johnson is politely calling him a liar. Oh and, sorry, but the three-opponent-vanquishing hero of "Concession," Tom Wambsgans? The show's auteur says, no, he was NOT named after the three-opponent-vanquishing hero of baseball's 1920 World Series, BILL Wambsganss. Sorry! B-Block (16:05) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: These really ARE postscripts. Not just more from the Wayback Machine but the story of how I GOT my first prestige job as a sportscaster on a top New York radio station just after my 21st birthday: the way everybody else does - by hanging around that station at 5:15 in the morning the day their sportscaster happens to call out sick. C-Block (38:40) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Given today's headline, this is a good time to revisit the very FIRST Special Comment in this series: it involved fossil fuels, Joe Manchin, and the need to push Biden at all times. Also, a bad Howard Beale impression.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The legendary anchorman of the classic film "Network," Howard Beale, became a cultural icon for the axiom "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." We're all Howard Beales now, to paraphrase John F. Kennedy. If the country has a national mood, it's mad. The fury has become so intense that it has fractured our national psyche and has provoked daily speculation from even the most blasé pundits about whether America is on the verge of another civil war. But what are the roots of the intemperate disunion that pervades almost every aspect of daily life? Where did all this anger come from, why can't we just get along and how can we stitch our splintered country together again? Those are the questions an all-star panel of nationally known headliners will explore as part of "Common Ground with Jane Whitney's" first program of the 2022 season.

It was a redemptive double feature for Arsenal this week.  First they crashed out of the Europa League in an exciting match against the team formally known as Sporting Lisbon to a wonder goal from half field, on penalties, and in a match where Gabriel Jesus made his initial start on his comeback from a severe knee injury.  Then they demolished former bogey team Crystal Palace after Chairman Steve Parish fired manager Patrick Viera before the match (psssst Steve, Patrick Viera is a former Arsenal legend and if he has done one thing in his managerial career, it's get his teams fired up to play Arsenal) to go 8 points ahead of City at he top of the table.  However, they were still not the biggest show in North London.No, that would the epic blockbuster hit still running strong in it's second season at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: "The Full Conte."  It opens with Tottenham's 3-1 lead over bottom dwellers Southhampton melting away like the Wicked Witch of the West and concludes with Antonio Conte melting down like Howard Beale (sorry, you'll just have to Google). If only the Premier League would give Rick and Cal something to discuss on their podcasts.  Oh well, they try to make do this week.  Cal discusses the two Arsenal matches, what they mean for the season, and provides some interesting stats that put into perspective just how dominate the Gunners have been this season.  Rick discusses Tottenham's draw with Southhampton then Cal plays clips of Antonio Conte's press conference to see if Rick melts down while discussing them.  Wow!  Another action packed episode!Thank you for listening!@ATFPodcast1@ATFPodcast2https://www.arsenaltottenhamfanpodcast.com

Andrew has a Howard Beale moment about Alaska's future.

Howard Beale article on local CBS news station, toilet seat quest, 1-year anniversary at WQAM, Neil is giving away his Dolphins tickets, Leykis story

Having a Howard Beale moment. Just can't take it anymore. Will Americans ever THINK again? Or are we doomed to be a country of bootlickers ruled by emotion? Trump presents a new idea he got from the dictator of Communist China - and his fans cheer it on?! What could possibly go wrong?

OATH KEEPERS COULD SCREW TRUMP A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Keep your eye on the trial of Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers as jury selection continues today. Rhodes' defense is: he and his terrorists were acting on what were to be legal orders from Trump as President. So...they just guessed that would be the case? They assumed? THEY HAD TO HAVE BEEN TOLD. Told? By whom? What will they say in their own defense and who will testify to what communications or meetings or conspiracies? They are on trial for Seditious Conspiracy and perhaps decades in jail and who they blame could be close to Trump - or Trump himself. (5:07) Other Oath Keepers have already flipped and implicated Roger Stone, Stop The Steal, and The Proud Boys (7:05) And ex-Trump physician, Congressman Ronny Jackson, who supposedly reached out to Stewart Rhodes for protection during the attempted coup.  B-Block (15:16) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Jinxie in Brooklyn (16:39) IN SPORTS: Sure they clinched their division, but what about Aaron Judge's home run drought? And now that the NFL has cancelled its All-Star Game will the other leagues follow suit? (20:32) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The book banners of Bucks County PA taking it an extra yard, the University of Idaho, and the DeSantis appointee who just quit after a KKK photo surfaced, compete for honors (24:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: In the world of the movie "Network" it was 47 years ago this week that things began to go off the rails for Howard Beale, Max Schumacher, Diana Christensen, and the UBS Evening News. For my money, it's the greatest movie of all time - and especially the most prophetic. C-Block (37:03) More on "Network" and the 23 separate prophecies of auteur Paddy Chayefsky, who saw in 1976 what the rest of us could not imagine: what television news would look like in 2022.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and discovered that Howard Beale's famous speech isn't even the most important speech in the movie.Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and discovered that Howard Beale's famous speech isn't even the most important speech in the movie. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

IT'S ALIVE! The premiere episode of Countdown With Keith Olbermann steals from a) all his other programs b) Beethoven and Bach and c) Peter Finch as Howard Beale in the film "Network" - only with Olber-Beale screaming "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take Trump any more! Searing political commentary in Segment One, the news of the day and the Worst Persons In The World in Segment Two including the passing of basketball immortal Bill Russell AND the story of the man who spent years impersonating him. Then in "Things I Promised Not To Tell" in the final segment, the whole history of the Countdown franchise and what really happened at MSNBC all those years ago. Welcome and enjoy: we're starting off with a super-sized premiere edition! Good night and good luck!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Ciara Moloney and Dean Buckley, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT. So this week, Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's Network. Howard Beale is a veteran newscaster on a struggling network. When he is given his two weeks' notice, Beale threatens to shoot himself live on the air as his final broadcast. The television journeyman becomes a media storm and ratings sensation, as the network eagerly seeks to capitalise on what could be a once-in-a-generation phenomenon. At time of recording, it was ranked 219th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Ep. 16 Television Is Not The Truth My analysis of Peter Finches' portrayal of Howard Beale in the 1976 movie, Network. Here is a link to video on bitchute https://www.bitchute.com/video/Fntd1m5Wpjmf/ His speech about "the tube" or television " So, you listen to me. Listen to me!Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. So if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night -- all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know! You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here! You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you -- You dress like the tube. You eat like the tube. You raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ptpopamindrevolution/support

El título de esta columna es el grito que el conductor de noticias de la televisión, Howard Beale, lanza a mitad de un viaje existencial exhibido en Network

Host Jeff Crawford and his first mate in the decks of the ship of the Here and Now is Co-Host Baba Here Love! The Divine Mother is the one of many topics we cover with the "woman"! She is the Universe of us all! Howard Beale's World is covered again! It is Here and the time is Now! - WebsiteGiantRockPodcast.com- Baba Here Love Social MediaSupport the show

Hvis debatten om moralsk ansvar var en film fra 70-tallet ville Professor Emeritus Bruce Waller kanskje vært en krysning mellom Don Corleone og Howard Beale. All den tid Guds veier både er uransakelige og usaklige - noe Waller og Sturla mer eller mindre konkluderer med i episoden - velger de fleste i denne konteksten å heller tro på Julenissen aka Daniel Dennett enn å svelge Wallers pai av ydmykende kamelkjøtt. Vi har moralsk ansvar "fordi". Waller motsetter seg dette synspunktet, men skiller seg fra sine yngre og mer oppesen kolleger som Caruso og Pereboom i dét at han er veldig uttalt politisk. Som en såkalte "un-electable progressive" definerer Waller seg til venstrefor AoC og Sanders og det i tjukkeste Ohio! Ifølge Waller er det et iboende og dypt uretteferdig klasseperspektiv i debatten om moralsk ansvar som knapt har blitt berørt i land som Norge (til tross for at vi i praksis har et system som kommer nærmere enn noe andre lands i å ta Wallers synspuhnkter innover seg i praksis). Med debattn rundt avhendlingen til Andreas Ribe-Nyhus er denne debatten imidlertid mer levende i noensinne, så også her på bjerget. Vi må bare slutte å tro på nissen! cringe... Men har man virkelig ansvar for sine cringness i dypeste forstand?

Am Luzerner Theater wird aktuell das Stück «Network» gezeigt, eine Adaption des gleichnamigen Films aus dem Jahr 1976. Die bitterböse Medien-Satire erhält in Luzern einen modernen Anstrich.  Weiter in der Sendung: * Der Luzerner Regierungsrat Fabian Peter tritt für eine zweite Amtszeit an.  * Das Nidwaldner Museum gibt Einblick in seine Sammlung und stellt rund 300 Gegenstände aus dem Depot aus.

Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale!Try spending a weekend on Fire Island with him! He was a nightmare!But do you know who's not a nightmare? Our guest this week! We're delighted to welcome actor/comedian Dave Theune (Pivoting, Good Girls, I am Not Okay with This) Our series on Best Supporting Actress nominated series continues and this week we're giving it to you straight. In fact, we're giving it to you Beatrice Straight, who holds the record for the Oscar win with the least amount of screen time, for NETWORK!Follow Dave on Instagram: @davetheuneFollow us on Twitter and Instagram: @TwoOldQueensVisit this link for info on our upcoming performance at TREEFORT MUSIC FEST! March 25th!!!https://www.treefortmusicfest.com/fort/podcasts/Follow Mark on Letterbox: @markrennieEmail us: TwoOldQueens@gmail.comWe've got a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TwoOldQueensWE'VE GOT MERCH! CAN YOU IMAGINE? Click on this link! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/two-old-queens?ref_id=12950Or go to TeePublic.com and search for Two Old Queens!Music by Danny CohenArtwork by Conrad Shin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This Was Uploaded To Spread The Message To The World For Free. I Do Not Profit From This. The Truth Shall Set You Free, So Can You Handle The Real Truth About The So Called "Reality" You Are In? Wake Up! The Russian Invasion Is OR Will Bring A False Flag Attack Again For That Crapp To Be Played For The World Stage And Promote The Final Phase Of THE GLOBAL TOTAL POWER GRABB. Divide To Conquer. PS: How Is The Kool-Aid? Is It Tasty? Me ,, Personally, I Seek To Inform-Educate And Be Entertaining At The Same Time Especially At The Expense Of The Elites In The Name Of Freedom. Sincerely Azazael Lvcyfere Mushkiki Yeenaldlooshii #Opnhs1492 =^..^= Documentary Storyline: This film gathers information from many sources and puts it together in a way that shows it is possible for people to be manipulated by large institutions, governments and economic powers. It is divided into 3 parts. 1. Religion: Pagan astrological beliefs compared to modern and ancient religions. 2. 9/11: An overview of the numerous questionable aspects of this immensely important event. 3. The Federal Reserve Bank: A history of its formation and ability to control the economy. With many news clips from tragic events in history, audio excerpts from those who believe people are being misled about the level of freedom they have. Reviews: "Some films seek to entertain. "Zeitgeist" seeks to inform. This sociological documentary contains a wealth of facts. And these facts function to support its overall message; namely, that powerful, societal institutions, through action and speech, control individuals in unimagined ways. For what purpose? Power. The film singles out religious institutions, government institutions, and financial institutions. The film's first segment, 28-minutes in duration, is unparalleled in its succinct yet potent discussion of religion, and its relation to history and current culture. Splendid narration, background music, and visuals make this segment spellbinding. But more importantly, the message is factual and nothing short of profound. The segments on government and financial institutions are scarcely less significant. The focus is on the 9/11 tragedy at the World Trade Center. Viewers who adhere to the official line will no doubt protest. But they cannot alter the facts that point to a conspiracy of powerful institutional leaders. The banking/financial segment follows suit with a similarly scathing critique. "Zeitgeist" hammers television. From the film "Network" (1976), the character Howard Beale shouts the evils of the "boob-tube"; "Television is not the truth; television is an ... amusement park"; its output is designed to keep you in a distracted, naive bubble. The film is not perfect. Discussion of 9/11 will eventually make the film dated. The first four-minute segment is sleep inducing. A few spots of filler could have been replaced with further critiques of the media. And most importantly, what the film calls "lies" (as a noun) in some instances could be replaced with the word "ignorance". Yet, whether the evil is ignorance or lies, the end result is the same. Ordinarily, these imperfections would reduce my rating from a perfect score of ten. But the overall message of "Zeitgeist" is so profound and the presented facts so stunning that I cannot justify a score less than the highest possible." -Written by Lechuguilla on IMDb.com Also Known As (AKA): (original title) Zeitgeist Japan (Japanese title) ツァイトガイスト Poland Duch epoki Russia Дух времени Spain Zeitgeist UK Zeitgeist: The Movie USA (promotional title) Zeitgeist: The Movie USA Zeitgeist --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yeenaaldlooshii/message

Once thought as an outrageous satire, NETWORK has proven an accurate prognostication time and time again. Phenomenal casting, quotable speeches, and a cynical look at the television industry.

Get exploited in your dreams for free. More and more people just might be noticing some fundamental problems but are still a million light years from a general strike or even a Howard Beale "Mad as hell" moment. Climate summits are mainly just monstrous wastes of time and energy, all the way down to the subatomic level. Climate science has spoken on the voodoo of "net zero." Kyle Tollhouse Porterhouse did etc, and his judge/manservant loves him enough to ban zooming in on crucial video footage for, uh, reasons and, er, 'logarithms.' A lawyer stalked a beach as a storm approached, dressed as The Shape in order to be a beacon of positivity. Kamala Harris 2024: "Together we must work together to do things together." Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpodGeneral RecommendationsJD's Recommendations: 1) Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time & 2) The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore  & 3) Orbital - Orbital 2JNM's Recommendation: Inspector KooFurther Reading, Viewing, ListeningWhen Work Invades Your Sleep Through Your DreamsA record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in SeptemberNancy Pelosi says the ‘climate crisis is a national security matter' to defend Pentagon budget increase Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trapRich People Are Destroying the PlanetCovid cases are surging in Europe. America is in denial about what lies in store for itJudge buys Rittenhouse lawyer's inane argument that Apple's pinch-to-zoom manipulates footageTexas Lawyer Cited For Wearing 'Halloween' Michael Myers Costume On BeachLocationless Locationsheatdeathpod.comEvery show-related link is corralled and available here.Twitter: @heatdeathpodPlease send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: heatdeathoftheuniversepodcast@gmail.comAlso, check out our newly updated YouTube channel for the hell of it

Ian and Jen MacIntyre join Jeremy for NETWORK and wax poetical about what a warm and cuddly movie it is… or we just try not to pull a Howard Beale at the end…

In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers and the network. Join us this week as we dive into this Oscar Award winning film, and while we sip on frothy Miller High Life.   As always, drive safe, drink responsibly, and keep watching movies!! On Facebook and Instagram @drunkendriveinpodcast On Twitter @drunkdriveinpod Email Drunkendriveinpodcast@gmail.com

Chris and Perry continue their Summer of the 70s series with a Sidney Lumet double feature. First, they spend a tense August day and night with Al Pacino and John Cazale in "Dog Day Afternoon." Next, they get mad as hell about "Network." It's a long, fun deep dive with two of the greatest movies ever made. “We're Watching Here” Facebook page“We're Watching Here” TwitterPerry Seibert on TwitterChris Williams on TwitterChris' Newsletter

In Episode 9: It's the BRYAN CRANSTON TAKEOVER SPECIAL! Bryan Cranston endorses the podcast (and has a message for insomniacs); Will tries to "Guess the Bryan Cranston Movie Shot in Canada!"; We play "Eye Liner Color or Bryan Cranston Character Name"; and then Walter White takes on Howard Beale in an all-Bryan-Cranston celebrity fantasy battle. Plus, tinkling next to Maury Chaykin and a brush with Richard Grieco. Sweet Dreams! www.bagofmilkpodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bagofmilk/support

After going full Howard Beale from 'Network' in Hour 1, Michael is plum tuckered out and decides to call an audible by opening the phone lines. Listeners flood in to tell him they want to 'Be Like Mike' and share in his righteous outrage over Colorado lawmakers jumping the line for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Dan and Mike are mad as hell that more people aren't talking about Network, Sidney Lumet's 1976 masterpiece.  In their discussion of a film so perfect and prophetic, the guys discuss how we all live in the world that Network creates on our screens and that Howard Beale describes and decries. As Mike says, if you get the jokes of Network, you're acknowledging that all is lost.  Dan tries a new method for selecting his favorite moment and Mike compares Howard Beale to the prophet Jeremiah.  Our troubles run even deeper than TV, the internet, or social media.  So throw open your window, lean out, and yell, "I'm a film fanatic and I'm not going to take it any more!"   Please follow or subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and on Twitter @15MinFilm.   You can also contact us at FifteenMinuteFilm@gmail.com, and support the show with a buck or two at Venmo @FifteenMinuteFiIm.   Incredible bumper music by John Deley.

Join Dan and Brian as they view the seminal '70s satire Network for the first time, admire its almost Shakespearean devotion to monologues, praise its award-winning cast, bask in Faye Dunaway, and ponder just how much it predicted the 21st century media landscape. Dan narrates his own Howard Beale rant for 2020 while Brian notes the film's many connections to his favorite movie, UHF.  Music credits: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-clean License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this bonus rant, Drew attempts to articulate his inner frustrations of being abandoned by political parties who--at this point-- playcate to the woke-cult intersectional identitarian radicals and no longer reflect his belief or social values. During this historic and tumultuous time for the country the likes of which the world has never seen; an economic collapse; a scary new pandemic, riots in every major city with political turmoil that threatens to tear the very fabric of the country apart. There's a storm on the horizon. And with the 2020 election less than one hundred days away, one thing's for sure: No one knows what's next.***CONTACT US:TwitterWebsite ***STREAM US:Google Play Apple Spotify Stitcher iHeartRadio YouTube***SUPPORT US:Markus and Drew can improve bringing you more of this kind of electrifying information with better equipment, software, etc. If you liked what you heard and can afford to help us grow, please throw a couple bucks our way ...and if your budget is too tight but you still want to help please Like, Share and/or leave us a good review. Thank you!PayPalSupport the show (https://paypal.me/phase2phase?locale.x=en_US)

In the most famous scene from the legendary film, Network (1976), populist news anchor, Howard Beale, creates a viral sensation before the internet became a thing: he tells his viewers, “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!” And thousands of people across the country yell from their windows and rooftops repeating the mantra, “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!” More than 40 years on, in our neoliberal wasteland, we have every right to be mad as hell as we huddle in our unpaid Covid-abodes with no more Bernie Bucks or stimulus, while microbes attack us relentlessly. With the Siberian forests on fire, the Great Barrier Reef deforming into black bones & ash and the oceans gasping for oxygen while record temperatures make Death Valley feel like Venus, we must become mad – with a rage that runs on love for what's been lost and for what we might still win. This week, Jesse & Matt celebrate the multi-authored manifesto, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, published in 2019 by Verso Books. Our co-hosts will talk about the vitality and importance of this book and how the beating heart of any radical Green New Deal must include The Golden Square: the decommodification and universal provision of Food, Shelter, Healthcare and Education for All. We live in the worst version of a Cyberpunk world that doesn't even offer up androids or flying cars, while we gloat over our miniature technology & its secret surveillance as politicians offer up empty platitudes and technocratic masturbations. As the Social Ecologist, Murray Bookchin, once told us, the enemy isn't us; the enemy is the fossil fuel industry; the enemy lives inside McMansions and billionaire castles made by myths of perpetual market growth, peddled by the celebrity worshiping pyramid scheme of an influencer class clawing onto the old carcass of illegitimate hierarchies. We are in revolutionary times and collective actions require collective designs; so we must continue to draw the contours of what lies just beyond the horizon. We have a planet to win. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

A potpourri - cornucopia, even, if you will - of compelling topics for Hour 2, including: Tucker Carlson's breakdown of the capricious legal charges coming against the McCloskeys in St. Louis, as they defend their homes and exercise their second amendment rights; Michael's doctor likens his rants to Howard Beale, Peter Finch's character from 'Network'; Joe Biden adds several tracks to his 'Greatest Hits' album of blunders.

Live show is 7-9 am Central time weekdays!!! Cell Phone plus auxiliary cord to Vehicle Audio = Action Radio on your Radio! Patreon memberships:  https://www.patreon.com/ActionRadio Facebook page:   https://www.facebook.com/radiolegislature/ Twitter:  GregPenglis@ActionRadioGP Bill writing site:  www.WriteYourLaws.com *****  Show Notes: Intro - The Guest Host Hour!  Your chance to host your own hour on Action Radio!  Bob White, Chair of the Florida Republican Liberty Caucus did a brilliant job hosting the show today.  He was also Facebook live during is introductory monologue.  Bob brought a guest, John Hollman, to talk about a bunch of legislative initiatives, and problems with education, the lockdowns, unrestricted governor emergency powers and more.  Derek couldn't make the financial report so Bob stayed well into the second hour. 1:30:00 - The Second Amendment Report, with Jim Dykes.  Jim had his usual "gun of the week," Second Amendment news, and the laws and court cases affecting gun owners and those who carry guns.  Jim is a Director of Florida Carry, a group dedicated to the "Constitutional Carry" of firearms. ***** Action Radio is the synergy of radio broadcast technology, the internet, the radio audience, articles, podcasts, news videos, state and federal legislators, the governors, and even the President, in an entirely new way to make our laws.  The citizens, us, we will write the bills, online, and on the air, for submission to the various legislators.  Then we will lobby our bills with as large an audience as we can build.

Meet Bruce Negrin, a modern-day angry prophet in the mold of "Network" character Howard Beale. Bruce is the host of the podcast "Outside Looking In." Find it here: https://www.spreaker.com/show/bruce-negrins-show

Noviembre nocturno ofrece un homenaje a la figura de Howard Beale, protagonista de la película estadounidense de 1976 "Network", dirigida por Sidney Lumet y protagonizada por Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch y Robert Duvall entre otros. Galardonada con cuatro Premios Óscar: al mejor actor principal (Peter Finch), con carácter póstumo; a la mejor actriz principal (Faye Dunaway), a la mejor actriz de reparto (Beatrice Straight), y al mejor guión original (Paddy Chayefsky). En el año 2000 fue seleccionada para ser preservada como parte del National Film Registry (Registro Fílmico Nacional) de la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, por ser "cultural, histórica y estéticamente significativa". Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

The Overnight Underground Podcast, here’s the headlines: Pence goes naked. Cuomo’s daily bitchfest. It’s time to isolate your dog. Disinfectant-gate keeps rolling along and garbage truck fires are now a thing. These stories & more coming up on today’s Overnight Underground News.  I’m John Ford. The President didn’t do anything stupid enough to garner media attention yesterday, so the Vice President kindly stepped into the breech. Pence is under the gun for not wearing a face mask while visiting the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic allegedly told Pence that their policy was that all visitors need to put a mask on their puss, Pence passed on the recommendation. His reasoning for not wearing a mask? The VP said he wanted to look the healthcare workers, quote: “in the eye.” I think Pence needs to get Fauchi or one of the other White House experts to explain how to wear a mask. New York Governor Cuomo used his bully pulpit to cast the blame of the covid pandemic on everyone but himself on Tuesday. His targets, public health agencies, the intelligence community and every politician’s favorite foil, the media.The New York Post notes that Cuomo has also openly grappled with Mayor Bill de Blasio as well on the face mask issue. Cuomo having a little Howard Beale moment on live TV. Speaking of Mayor de Blasio, he’s getting as good as Trump for Tweeting with his foot in his mouth. The Mayor specifically called out the Jewish community in New York for gathering in large groups, following an outdoor funeral by an orthodox jewish sect in Brooklyn. The Mayor Tweeted, that he quote: “instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups.” Goodwin’s law it seems is in full effect. Right or wrong isn’t going to matter here, he’s joined the ranks of those guilty of offending someone or some group. Mister Mayor, you helped create this beast of offense, now learn live with it. Oh brother, now you have to socially isolate your dog. The CDC has issued a warning that your pets now need to follow the same social-distancing rules as you do during the COVID-19 pandemic. So no dog parks or sniffing buts with the neighbors dogs. According to the CDC, “do not let pets interact with people or animals outside the household.” Also, avoid dog parks or public places where a large number of people and dogs gather. Last week two cats in New York came down with the infection and a pug in North Carolina became the first dog in the US known to authorities to have become infected. And no, don’t bleach your dog. It’s just the story that the press refuses to let die, disinfectant-gate. A new Reuters poll says that ninety eight percent of ‘Mericans think injecting disinfectant into plague infected patients is a generally bad idea. Makes you wonder about the two percent who think it’s a spiffy idea. Overall Trumps ratings remain about the same as a week ago, with forty-three percent of Americans saying they approve of his overall job performance. Remember folks, use code Maga2020 for a thirty percent discount at checkout on your bleach and disinfectant needs. Doctor Fauchi, the coronavirus expert at the White House that everyone seems so fond of, even getting Brad Pitt love on Saturday Night Live, appears to have a little alleged covid dirt of his own. According to an article reported in Newsweek, the organization led by Doctor Fauchi, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, financed scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on research on bat coronaviruses. Many scientists have been critical of the “gain of function” research that Fauchi’s institute funded, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to probe their potential for infecting humans. The scientists' fear revolves around the research creating a risk of unleashing a pandemic by accidental release. Sound familiar? In a somewhat unrelated story, drug maker Pfizer is now saying that they could have a coronavirus vaccine available by the fall.  Officials from Pfizer told the Wall Street Journal that testing of the vaccine could begin as early as next week and emergency usage could happen in the fall. Clinical trials have already started in Germany, where Pfizer is working with German-based BioNtech. New York based Pfizer has already invested six hundred and fifty thousand samolians into vaccine research for coronavirus. Pfizer, aren’t they the ones who invented viagra? Tell you what, if you’re rona’ virus vaccine can also give me a woodie, I’ll pay extra.  If you picked boneless chicken as the next food shortage to hit the US, step right up and pick up your foul prize. yea I know. Anyways, it seems meat packing plants have reduced supplies of boneless chicken and the popular cut of meat is next on the hard to find list at the store. The pandemic infections at meat packing plants have reduced slaughter activity and could make boneless cuts as rare as hens teeth. Look bunkie, here’s a little hint. It’s not that hard to take a well sharpened boning knife and bone the damn chicken yourself. I’m sure there is a youtube video that will explain it to you snowflake. The really scary thing is, there is probably a fairly large percentage of people who think boneless cuts come from boneless chickens.  Garbage truck fires, is there anything coronavirus can’t do? It seems that with all the time we have on our hands during lockdown, folks around the country are taking advantage of that time off from work and cleaning up and doing chores that have been piling up. One problem though. Fox News Denver reports that there has been an increase in garbage truck fires. Which are undoubtedly due to more people tossing out hazardous materials such as batteries, pool chemicals, paint thinner, lighter fluid and propane tanks. When the garbage trucks use their compactor to smash the trash, it often goes boom.   The US may have a french fry shortage due to the cursed coronavirus, but in Belgium, they have a glut of potatoes. In fact, three quarters of a million tons of the tasty tubers are at risk of being thrown away. According to CNBC, the Belgian government is telling its citizens to eat two helpings of fries a day. The spud glut is mostly due to a fall in demand in the frozen potato sector. Now there’s a phrase you don’t hear every day, the frozen potato sector. Of course the Belgians make a damn good fry, and you can almost forgive them for slathering their wonderful fries in the devil's condiment of emulsified raw egg yolk, oil and acid.

Network is a 1976 American satirical drama film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight) and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky). In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for American entertainment".[3] In 2005, the two Writers Guilds of America voted Chayefsky's script one of the 10 greatest screenplays in the history of cinema.[4][a] In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier. Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen William Holden as Max Schumacher Peter Finch as Howard Beale Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett Wesley Addy as Nelson Chaney Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher Jordan Charney as Harry Hunter William Prince as Edward Ruddy Lane Smith as Robert McDonough Marlene Warfield as Laureen Hobbs Conchata Ferrell as Barbara Schlesinger Carolyn Krigbaum as Max's secretary Arthur Burghardt as the Great Ahmet Khan Cindy Grover as Caroline Schumacher Darryl Hickman as Bill Herron Lee Richardson as the Narrator (voice) Lance Henriksen as Network lawyer (uncredited) Network came only two years after the first on-screen suicide in television history, of television news reporter Christine Chubbuck in Sarasota, Florida.[6][dead link] The anchorwoman was suffering from depression and loneliness, was often emotionally distant from her co-workers, and shot herself on camera as stunned viewers watched on July 15, 1974. Chayefsky used the idea of a live death as his film's focal point, saying later in an interview, "Television will do anything for a rating ... anything!" However, Dave Itzkoff's book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies disputes that Chayefsky was inspired by the Chubbock case, asserting that Chayefsky actually began writing Network months before Chubbuck's death and already planned for Howard Beale to vow to kill himself on air, and that Chubbuck's suicide was simply an eerie parallel.[7] Sidney Lumet also confirmed that the character of Howard Beale was never based on any real life person.[8] Still, the Chubbuck case is mentioned in Chayefsky's screenplay.[citation needed] Before beginning his screenplay, Chayefsky visited network TV offices. Sitting in on meetings at CBS and NBC, he noted "the politics, the power struggles, the obsession with ratings."[9] He was also surprised to learn that television executives did not watch much television. "The programs they put on 'had to' be bad," he said, "had to be something they wouldn't watch. Imagine having to work like that all your life."[10] According to Dave Itzkoff, what Cheyefsky saw while writing the screenplay during the midst of Watergate and the Vietnam war was all the anger of America being broadcast in everything from sitcoms to news reports. He concluded that Americans "don't want jolly, happy family type shows like Eye Witness News" ... "the American people are angry and want angry shows."[11] When he began writing his script he had intended on a comedy, but instead poured his frustration at the broadcasts being shown on television, which he described as "an indestructible and terrifying giant that is stronger than the government" — into the screenplay. It became a "dark satire about an unstable news anchor and a broadcasting company and a viewing public all too happy to follow him over the brink of sanity."[11] The character of network executive Diana Christiansen was based on NBC daytime television programming executive Lin Bolen,[12] which Bolen disputed.[13] Chayefsky and producer Howard Gottfried had just come off a lawsuit against United Artists, challenging the studio's right to lease their previous film, The Hospital, to ABC in a package with a less successful film. Despite this recent lawsuit, Chayefsky and Gottfried signed a deal with UA to finance Network, until UA found the subject matter too controversial and backed out. Undeterred, Chayefsky and Gottfried shopped the script around to other studios, and eventually found an interested party in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Soon afterward, United Artists reversed itself and looked to co-finance the film with MGM, since the latter had an ongoing distribution arrangement with UA in North America. Since MGM agreed to let UA back on board, the former (through United Artists as per the arrangement) controlled North American/Caribbean rights, with UA opting for overseas distribution.

País Estados Unidos Dirección Sidney Lumet Guion Paddy Chayefsky Música Elliot Lawrence Fotografía Owen Roizman Reparto Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Darryl Hickman Sinopsis Un análisis sobre el poder de la televisión, que retrata un mundo competitivo donde el éxito y los récords de audiencia imponen su dictadura. Howard Beale, veterano presentador de un informativo, es despedido cuando baja el nivel de audiencia de su popular programa. Sin embargo, antes de abandonar la cadena, en una reacción inesperada, y ante el asombro de todos, anuncia que antes de irse se suicidará ante las cámaras, pegándose un tiro en directo. Este hecho sin precedentes provoca una gran expectación entre los televidentes y los propios compañeros de Howard.

This week, as we ponder the words of the "Mad Prophet" Howard Beale of Network fame, we look at Epstein updates and Election news in advance of 2020. 

In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch,  Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky’s script, Beatrice  Straights’ performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway’s performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch’s frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled “mad prophet of the airwaves.”Thirty-five years later, Network remains an incendiary if an influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” and wrote later that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.’ ”Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried.

Amy & Paul surf through 1976's Sidney Lumet TV news satire Network! They explore how writer Paddy Chayefsky came up through the TV trenches, listen to modern media figures who took inspiration from Howard Beale, and ask if the film has become too real to work as satire. Plus: Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany talks about what it was like to reprise the Diana Christensen role onstage.   If you haven't seen Lawrence Of Arabia, what do you think it's about? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall     This episode is brought to you by M&Ms Hazelnut and Hawthorne Men’s Products (www.hawthorne.co code: UNSPOOLED).

The latest polls—including the highly respected Fox poll—show Trump in terrible shape at this point: Among registered voters he trails Biden 50-38, Bernie 48-39, Elizabeth Warren 46-39, and even Kamala Harris 45-39. He’s losing crucial segments of his 2016 base. And in many of the states he carried last time, he’s deep into negative territory on the approval polls. Jeet Heer comments—and takes up the question, how does he think he can win? Also: The synergy between politics and popular culture has never been clearer or stronger than in the Age of Reagan—and now there’s a wonderful new book on “movie culture in the Age of Reagan”—it’s called Make My Day, by J. Hoberman; for thirty years he was a film critic for the Village Voice.  He talks about Dirty Harry, Star Wars, Rambo, and Ghostbusters—and how Trump compares with Reagan, pointing to Howard Beale in Network and to Rocky's racist happy ending.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale! And, I won't have it! Is that clear! Do you think you merely stopped a business deal - That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country - And now they must put it back! It is ebb & flow! Tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man - Who thinks in terms of nations and peoples - There are no nations - there are no peoples - There are no Russians - there are no Arabs - There are 3rd worlds - there is no West - There is only one holistic system of systems - One vast and main interwoven, interactive, multi-varied - Multi-national dominion of dollars - Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichsmarks, rubles, pounds & scheckles - It is the international system of currency - Which determines the totality of life - On this planet - That is the natural order of things, today - That is atomic and sub-atomic and galactic structure Of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little 21-inch screen - And howl about America & democracy - There is no America, there is no democracy - There is only - IBM, ITT, AT&T, and Dupont - Dow, Union Carbide & EXXON - Those are the nations of the world today - What do you think the Russians talk about - In their councils of state? - Karl Marx? They get out their lineal programming charts - Statistical decision theories  Min & max solutions  & compute the price cost probabilities of their - Transaction & investments Just l

And woe is us, we're in a lot of trouble! So, a rich little man with white hair died - What does that have to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to us? Because, you people - And 62-million other Americans are listening to me, right now. Because less than 3% of you people read books - Because less than 15% of you read newspapers - Because the only truth you know is what you get with this tube. Right now there - There is a whole, entire generation - That never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube! This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation - This tube cane make or break - Presidents, popes, prime ministers - This tube is the most awesome goddamned force - In the whole godless world.  

(The Following Excerpt Is From The Movie "Network" - 1st Released Way Back In 1976 - This Is What We Face TODAY - With TRUMP!) Let's Begin - I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression -  Everybody's out of work - Or scared of losing their job - The dollar buys a nickle's worth - The banks are going bust - Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter - Punks are running wild in the streets - And there's nobody anywhere that seems to know what to do about it. We know the air is unfit to breathe - And our food is unfit to eat - We sit watching our tv's about some local newscaster - tells us today we had 15 homicides and 16 violent crimes - As that's the way it's supposed to be  We know things are bad - Worse than bad - They're crazy - It's like everything everywhere is going cracy - We don't go out anymore - We sit in the house and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller - And all we say is please -  @ least leave us alone in our living rooms - Let me have my toaster and my tv and my steel-belted radials - And I won't say anything - Just leave us alone - Well, I'm not going to leave you alone - I want you to get mad - I don't want you to protest - I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman - Because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write - I don't know what to do about the depression - And the inflation and the Russians - And the crime in the street - All I know is that first - You've got to get mad - You've got to say - I'm a human being -

"Howard Beale is processed instant God, and right now it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore!" Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

BRYAN CRANSTON is mad as hell, and Broadway audiences are loving every minute of it. He is giving an electric, Tony-nominated performance as unraveling news anchorman Howard Beale in Network, the stage adaptation of the iconic 1976 film, at the Belasco Theatre on the Great White Way. Hailed for his Emmy-winning performance as Walter White in Breaking Bad, his Tony-winning turn as President Lyndon Baines Johnson in All the Way and more stage-and-screen triumphs, Cranston is one of the most celebrated actors of our time. He stopped by Show People with Paul Wontorek to discuss his illustrious career, his desire to do Damn Yankees, and what he'll do if he catches you texting at the theater.

Con motivo del aniversario de fallecimiento del directo de cine Sidney Lumet, Marcelo Figueras recrea un monólogo de Peter Finch en el personaje de Howard Beale en "Network". "Habrá consecuencias", lunes a viernes de 7 a 10 por El Destape Radio. Conducción: Ari Lijalad. Escuchá El Destape Radio en eldestaperadio.com o bajate la app gratis para todos los dispositivos móviles.

Momo! Where did it come from? Is it a hoax? Should parents be concerned? There's something happening here, but what it is ain't exactly clear.   Adam rushes through all the things he WAS going to talk about this episode but is most definitely NOT talking about: New Book American Cosmic, Catholic Miracles, Qi Power, the Mystery of Elisa Lam, Interdimensional Entities, Ed & Lorraine Warren's Haunted Legal Precedent...  Alex Jones recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. This was an epic, nearly-five-hour rantfest covering everything from zombie wasps to human/pig hybrids to clandestine government meetings with alien intelligences. In short, it's everything a paranoid conspiracy buff could want and more... Hey, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you. 

We get mad as hell in a not-quite review, but more of an impression/discussion of the recent Broadway production of classic AFI film Network (which we did review previously) featuring Bryan Cranston in the role of Howard Beale. The post Film & TV Special: Network (Broadway Production 2019) appeared first on The Lost Signals.

Nearly everyone concerned with good government is thinking like the fictional TV anchor Howard Beale. He urged his audience to stick their head out the window and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore." American University public administration professor Bob Tobias is mad as hell, and he joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for one idea for ending the shutdowns once and for all.

Fisica dell'Output — Episodio 5 Laura Loveleace, Howard Beale

Welcome back to our next episode. From All Good Tales, it’s Media Moments–a show about those strange, unique, weird and often bizarre times when the world changed forever in an instant. This week we have a Christmas special, a brand new never heard before Media Moments episode! Set in 1970s Hollywood, we look at a story that communicates with crystal clarity, the power of anger. It's Peter Finch as Howard Beale in the fictional television movie, Network. Here’s a media moment that changed the world forever.

This week on The Twin Geekscast we jump into the dangerous ground of political satire with Sidney Lumet's 1976 masterpiece, Network (1976). This film boasts one of the greatest ensemble casts ever assembled, with the likes of Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall all in starring roles. Some people have claimed screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky must have been able to see into future, as the commentary laden in his script seems even more relevant today than it did some 40 years ago. See what we have to say about the mad ravings of Howard Beale, and the executives at UBS who attempt to abuse his messianic draw for their own gain. Say it with me now: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

Now armed with a fully functional (but malware ridden) laptop, your host delivers what will be the last unhinged Howard Beale diatribe for a good long while, pending the arrival of our next guest from Paraguay. This time, he tackles perhaps his least favorite subject other than President Trump: online dating.

In the 1976 movie Network, upon being prompted by news anchor Howard Beale, people in cities all over the USA get up, open their windows, and yell, “I’m mad as hell as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”. It is now 2018 and people still seem mad as hell - only now, instead of yelling out our windows, we have the internet to amplify our rage.   Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about outrage on the internet and the impact of the internet on everything from our relationships to our democracy to our psyches. This week we join that conversation. We take a step back and explore the impact of the internet and social media on both our society and each of us individually? In the end, Brett and Nick ask themselves what they want to do differently moving forward and they provide the opportunity for listeners to ask themselves that question as well. Get our newsletter and updates by joining our mailing list at www.wheretheressmoke.co. * * * #WTSdigs Nick: The Good Place on NBC Brett: Lovesick on Netflix   This was originally released on January 23, 2018 as an episode of Where There’s Smoke entitled, We’re Mad As Hell and We’re Not Going to Tweet It Anymore! (Complicity). Follow Where There’s Smoke on Facebook at www.facebook.com/exploreWTS, or as @exploreWTS on Twitter and Instagram. The *new* season of Where There’s Smoke launching in the fall of 2018. For updates you can subscribe to the podcast and/or the newsletter HERE.

We've felt the disturbance. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror. Yeah, lots of commander players are not getting what they wanted out of this year's Commander set. So join Andy and Kyle as they try to figure out what it is that we got and how we should all ingest this product. And this episode requires a little work from you. We need you to listen. Then get up out of your chairs. We want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" Twitter: @legend_creature Ask Alexa or Google Home to play the Legendary Creature Podcast. Or listen wherever you listen to podcasts. If you're reading these notes, we sure as hell hope you listened to the whole podcast. Andy did a sweet-ass outro. And the dope beats playing as the soundtrack to your inner Howard Beale (and this episode are by the artist Dan Terminus. The song is Underwater Cities from The Darkest Benthic Division album. Big shout out to Mikey Patch for logo art work! Check his stuff out (http://irontree.deviantart.com/).

Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot that's been said about Commander 2018. Join us as Andy and Kyle explore the high and low-lights of this set. From your Izzet artifacts to the rumored Jund lands deck, from Esper top deck stuff to Bant-chantress, let's take a look at what's new. We'll dive into each new legendary creature and see what can muster something worthy of your commander table. Also, if you're the type that enjoys a good rant, we'll be dumping an extra episode this week to talk about the disappointments many have felt with Commander 2018. We'll also look for the silver linings. Summon your inner Howard Beale and look for that video and podcast soon. Twitter: @legend_creature Ask Alexa or Google Home to play the Legendary Creature Podcast. Or listen wherever you listen to podcasts. As always, we love sharing some sick beats in our intro/outro! This episode, we've got the song we ride in on a song from Home's album Resting State. Check him out and support him! He's super kind to let us use his music. Find his work on  (). Big shout out to Mikey Patch for logo art work! Check his stuff out (http://irontree.deviantart.com/).

Woah! 50 episodes! This time around, David Tuchman is joined by Simon Chetrit to read his own personal translation of the Hebrew Bible. Some things the two discuss: Howard Beale, how to divide booty (both meanings of the word), and a whole bunch of negotiating. Check Simon out on Instagram. Want more? follow OMGWTFBIBLE on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Neither Marvin Gaye nor Howard Beale were available to be on today's show (funny how that happens when you're dead or fictional *and* dead) but Cognitive Dissidents Michelle March, 'The Black Voice of Reason' Tymon Shipp, and Dr. David Robinson are mad as hell and the erosion of our liberties make us wanna holler that we're not gonna take it anymore! As hundreds of thousands of Americans marched in the streets to say that Families Belong Together, we were in studio to talk about our ailing Constitution and the Conservative vultures who can't wait to pick at its corpse. But first, they're gonna pick its pockets and bleed it dry. While we're flipping out, we're still hoping Paul Manafort will flip on, so send him a spatula to let him know that America still matters! Take all that, throw in a 'Burst of Durst' from five-time Emmy nominee Will Durst, and you've got yourself your weekly dose of newsy infotainment! Get dosed! #SpatulasForManafort 

Bruce Janacek joins us for show 500. Mail Bag: An all Bruce and Dan show this week. The Rest of the Show: 1) Overture - Center For The Arts. 2) Madison Symphony Orchestra. 3) Update on Bruce's book. 4) Bruce is at his wit's end with Trump. 5) George W. Bush. 6) Barack Hussein Obama II. 7) "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" (Howard Beale) 8) If you can't take the time to educate yourself.... DON"T VOTE! 9) Paul Davis Ryan Jr. 10) The world is not black and white. 11) Midterm elections. 12) Let the SOB go.  

In the 1976 movie Network, upon being prompted by news anchor Howard Beale, people in cities all over the USA get up, open their windows, and yell, “I’m mad as hell as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”. It is now 2018 and people still seem mad as hell - only now, instead of yelling out our windows, we have the internet to amplify our rage. Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about outrage on the internet and the impact of the internet on everything from our relationships to our democracy to our psyches. This week we join that conversation. We take a step back and explore the impact of the internet and social media on both our society and each of us individually? In the end, Brett and Nick ask themselves what they want to do differently moving forward and they provide the opportunity for listeners to ask themselves that question as well. Get our newsletter and updates by joining our mailing list at www.wheretheressmoke.co. * * * #WTSdigs Nick: The Good Place on NBC Brett: Lovesick on Netflix If want to support the show and help keep it going, please check out Support WTS.com for our Patreon campaign. Also, help others discover the show by LEAVING AN APPLE PODCAST REVIEW! Thx. * * * DOWNLOAD & LISTEN directly from Apple Podcasts: http://tinyurl.com/wts-itunes. If you dig the show, please take a moment to rate & review it on iTunes Find us on Pocket Casts here: http://pca.st/smoke. Also Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Episodes are also available at www.wheretheressmoke.co.   Connect with the show on Facebook: www.facebook.com/exploreWTS and Twitter: @exploreWTS.  

On December 21st, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon, will review Dan Brown's new novel "Origin" (2017). Other reviewers have called Origin either Brown's best or his worst novel. On a scale from one to ten we would give it an eight. As in all his thought provoking thrillers he follows the Dean-Koontz formula plotting for maximum suspense and action while keeping the big secret hidden as long as possible, thus managing to tantalize and entertain his readers as well as educating them into the essential mystery or problem central to the plot. In the Da Vinci code, it was the Holy Grail, in Inferno, it was the population explosion, in Origin it is the origin of life on earth and the destiny of the human race. Once again Brown creates a modern Frankenstein in the person of a billionaire inventor, computer programmer and futurist, Edmund Kirsch. Kirsch and his Android Igor "Winston" have decided to destroy religion by releasing a scientific documentary proving that there is and never was a divine creation and that humankind is rapidly evolving into a new species of cyborgs. (Much of this speculation has already been aired on documentary t.v. channels). Modern Spain is the venue for this drama and Brown treats us to his usual educational travelog. Before the world wide release of his production Kirsch is assassinated on stage (like Howard Beale) and this leaves Brown's hero Robert Langdon aided by the future queen of Spain and Kirsch's trusty A.I. "Winston" to find the secret Password to release the program. He does and they do -- but Langdon debunks Kirsch's premise that DNA evolved like amino acids in the primal soup of the earth's beginnings so God is saved. If you want to unravel the codes and untangle the twisted plot of this contemporary thriller tune in and we'll seek our Origin and our Destiny.

Welcome to Maj-j-j-j-jo-o-o-rity Vil-l-l-l-lain-n-n-n The future of the internet under the elimination of Net Neutrality What is Net Neutrality? Today, the internet and access to it remain open. It remains accessible. It remains “free”, because anyone, anywhere at anytime can use it. But that very freedom is scheduled to be rolled back dramatically on December 14th when the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote to remove the internet as a public utility from Title II of the Communications Act. Exactly. That legalese is most likely what your internet service provider, commonly called simply ISPs, has been counting on in order to keep consumers willfully ignorant about the future of the internet. But here’s where the rubber meets the road: it’s not working. Yep, as high as 2/3 of Americans from all walks of the political spectrum are keen to this corporate coup. And for good reason, right? From ridiculously long and non-intelligible user agreement forms to shoddy bundling packages with landlines that most kids in the year 2017 don’t even know exist, to simply trying to terminate your cable plan with customer service representatives who are more beast than man (Video of guy cancelling). This last video went viral after that man repeated those cancellation requests to Comcast customer service for nearly 20 minutes. Hell, I personally was sent to collections by Comcast over their mistake for about $30. Cable companies and internet service providers clearly have one lasting motive: the bottom line. So is Net Neutrality just the latest gimmick? Most experts say it’s much more serious than that. Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu first used the term “Net Neutrality” in 2003 when discussing “common carriers”. Companies that have a purpose of moving goods or services from one point to another. They “carry” your phone call from your mother, they “carry” our oil in pipelines, our Christmas packages on railways, and even “carry” precious YouTube videos all the way to your ears. Obviously, some applications may be more useful than others. The important part is that the goods get to you when you need them, and are done so efficiently and quickly. So what might happen in the aftermath of the death of Net Neutrality? Some are saying: The Death of Online Activism the Expansion of Censorship Right now, I can say whatever I want about Verizon. I can say that President Trump’s FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, whom he personally appointed, is a dirty former lawyer of Verizon that likes to play with his poopy for foreplay in front of his corporate overlords at weird Verizon headquarter sex parties where the board of directors dress up like futuristic S&M dolls and virgins are led to the slaughter at the hands of anatomically correct killer robots all for the purpose of revitalizing their decrepit old skin in bizarre witchcraft rituals. And while this is clearly a true statement, under proposed FCC guidelines, they could simply block this very website altogether if they chose to. This past December 7th saw some of the largest organized efforts to stop the FCC’s proposed changes as nationwide protests in front of Verizon stores took place. Those organizers like verizonprotests.com and battleforthenet.com could be in a state of perpetual loading if their ISP doesn’t like the content. Imagine if verizonprotests.com were located in an area where their only ISP was Verizon. There is literally nothing stopping Verizon from simply shutting down that operation. It sure doesn’t sound like a booming success for consumers, does it? It doesn’t resonate with options or protections for Jon and Jane Doe. The question presents itself then as a debate over whether or not access to the internet is a right. Should it be designated a common carrier and should consumers have proper access to it, as regulated by the government? The words “more government” automatically give a lot of people the heeby jeebies. Fair enough, let’s look at why eliminating Net Neutrality is a good thing. Probably the most common argument for ending Net Neutrality is economic. That argument goes like this: Why would ISPs continue to invest in internet infrastructure if the incentive for building it is financially undermined by everyone having the same access to it. Instead, internet service providers argue that being able to provide faster internet to those willing to pay for it will help create the financial incentive to build a faster internet for everyone, fast lanes for all, faster lanes for some. Sounds simple enough. Companies like Comcast, Charter and Cox have said for sometime that slowing down internet speeds for most consumers wouldn’t be the goal of these new internet rules. Instead, they make the claim that consumers already have robust options in the internet market, and therefore this wouldn’t be a giveaway to the major ISP players. In other words, your internet service will be largely unaffected as the invisible hand of the market plays out and competes for your dollar. If company A is too slow, then company B will be a tough competitor in that market, or company c or d and so forth. Absolutely a solid argument with a strong foundation. But do people really have multitudes of ISP options? Furthermore, could it be that the real reason money is not being invested in infrastructure is become the cable lobby is well aware that competition is weak. The main economic argument by ISPs assume that resources have been tight, and consumers can walk to another provider anytime they want. Business Insider’s Jeff Dunn doesn’t seem to think so in an April article saying, “Could Pai's net-neutrality plan lead ISPs to invest in more robust internet, and even offer it at cheaper prices? Possibly. But most of these companies have been sitting on piles of money for a long time, and they haven’t been very eager to spend the hundreds of millions needed to build out their private infrastructure into more places.” However, according to a popular piece by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight (video clip) and on another episode from the show in 2014 he stated as high as “96% of the population has access to two or fewer broadband companies.” That would seem to contradict the cable and internet lobby’s claims. According to a piece by Jon Brodkin in Ars Technica this past July cable companies consistently make the claim that there is no shortage of competition in the market, even stating “Competition is alive and well in the TV and Internet marketplaces and consumers are benefiting every day.” Brodkin argues that this claim is only true, because the cable lobby uses a 3Mbps threshold in their definition of high speed internet. That’s the kind of internet connection that makes you want to drown your computer in the bathtub. So what was all that fast and faster talk about? 
Brodkin again: “Out of 118 million US households, more than 10.6 million have no access to wired Internet service with download speeds of at least 25Mbps, and an additional 46.1 million households live in areas with just one provider offering those speeds. Even including fixed wireless connections, there were still nearly 50 million households with one 25Mbps provider or none at all, based on the analysis of FCC data.” Basically, there are millions of Americans systematically disadvantaged in job searching, connecting with friends and family or having access to key information in a timely manner. Brodkin finishes the July piece stating, “That report was issued before current Chairman Ajit Pai (former Verizon lawyer) took over for Tom Wheeler (former cable lobbyist). Pai voted against the 2015 decision to raise the broadband speed definition, criticized Wheeler for excluding satellite and mobile services from the new broadband benchmark, and has said the broadband market is too competitive for strict privacy rules. Under Pai's leadership, the FCC's future conclusions about broadband deployment and competition might be more in line with the cable lobby’s.” Letters from an Outsider, by Vili Branyik “They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad!” -Howard Beale, The Network One of the things I’d get in trouble for when I was a kid was playing Devil’s Advocate. My parents hated it to the point that they made me a shirt that had a quote from Dante’s Divine comedy - “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” I’m reluctant to take a stand for either side of an argument because both sides usually have their own merits. And, to paraphrase Penn Jillette, you should defend the people you don’t agree with at some point in your life. That act is a step to finding out what your priorities truly are. Now, with times being what they are, it’s difficult to support the repeal of Net Neutrality. For me, that means it’s time to stand for something. Part of the reason I’m explaining that is because there aren’t a lot of ways I can approach Net Neutrality without calling someone a fucking asshole - either the corporations supporting the repeal of Net Neutrality or the Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai. None of the people supporting the repeal of Net Neutrality come off to me as genuine in their efforts to pursue innovation or take further steps to make the open internet a basic right. I could make the argument that repealing Net Neutrality could be a step to the betterment of the open internet - the FCC has said that because of Net Neutrality, investing in corporations with a hand in telecommunication services, such as Verizon, has declined, and that loss makes it harder for those companies to better develop their services. I could defend that but I’m not going to. Realistically, the whole thing ended up with me asking a question about Net Neutrality that everyone should ask themselves - Would the repeal of Net Neutrality be as big a deal if we weren’t living in an age of kleptocrats and a lack of corporate transparency? I can’t in good conscience support the repeal of Net Neutrality. First off, the answer to my own question is no. This sort of thing wouldn’t have been a problem in the first place it people weren’t so obsessed with the weight of their wallets. When looking up at Net Neutrality rules, I found out that the internet is classified as a Title II communication service, which essentially means that the providers had to play fair with the services that they provided and couldn’t gouge people on prices. Further research refers to regulations on communications services in the early 1900’s, a time where railways were charging lower and higher rates depending on the traffic in and out of cities. In 1934, FDR asked for legislation for the creation of a government body that could study and regulate communication services. Thus, the FCC was created. A president 80 years back created an agency to prevent consumers from being thrown to the wolves that are hungry corporate interest, and the delicious irony is that the agency responsible for originally protecting the consumers is now the one threatening to repeal the rules keeping corporations fair. Second, the implications of a corporate stranglehold on a communications service can’t be ignored. We have a president who is currently delegitimizing the media, and the only channel he watches is fucking FOX News, a nest of vile sycophants who haven’t ceased to line up and blow the con artist in chief on live television. If the repeal of Net Neutrality means that your ability to communicate depends on how deep your pockets are, there are going to be a lot of people whose perspective on many things is narrowed significantly, and that is a dangerous prospect no matter who happens to be in office. It should go without saying that technology is vastly different than it was in the 1930’s. It seems like these days that things have advanced so quickly that people haven’t had the opportunity to catch up with the Information Age. The advent of the Information Age has made it impossible to be completely ignorant on something, but that’s a good thing. The ability to exchange information, among other things, wirelessly and quickly has birthed a new way that we communicate ideas. One of the effects of that, however, is that there’s a lot of things that people part of older generations want to keep buried, which is a polite way of saying that old fucks have a lot of dirty laundry. There’s always going to be a conflict in a period of transition, and in the United States we are in a state of heavy societal upheaval. The last thing that we should have to worry about is how we communicate with each other and who might threaten our abilities to do so. Now, if you haven’t made your voice heard to the FCC already, do so. Host of Last Week Tonight John Oliver shared a web address that directly links to the FCC’s website and the page you need to be on to file a complaint about the repeal of Net Neutrality. (www.gofccyourself.com) Everyone has a voice. As much as I like the idea of arguing for both sides, sometimes you need to stand for something. One more thing - I kind of shit on Ajit Pai earlier, or at least implied I did, but I can’t do that to the fullest extent. On a personal level, the Chairman of the FCC seems like a good guy. Because of his movement to repeal Net Neutrality, however, his family has been harassed and his home has been vandalized. ("Ajit Pai Says His Children Are Being Harassed")  I can’t condone that sort of thing, nobody should. That being said, this is a display of what happens when you mess with something people think should be a basic right to everyone. If Ajit Pai wasn’t formerly a lawyer for Verizon (and put in his current position specifically for what he’s doing now), the public’s perception of him would be different. But his goofy smile and comically large coffee mug won’t change the fact that Pai has pissed off a good portion of the internet community for lying and exaggerating about Net Neutrality to rally people behind his cause and blatantly ignoring the public who fucking hate his idea. It’s not an unheard of tactic for someone in political power, and it’s something that would land him squarely in the Trump White House, which makes him fit well with the other bullshit artists he has in his stable. Cheers. From, the Outsider That last piece was produced by Vili Branyik and performed by Eric Ellzey. What implications are there for eliminating NN? The Death of Small Business If the internet is reclassified and Net Neutrality is ended, then big businesses like Google or Amazon will be able to purchase “fast lanes” where you as a consumer can use their websites with almost no interruption - exactly the way you use it everyday. Internet service providers like Verizon, AT&T and Comcast will most definitely like this, because they won't have to provide those same fast lanes to damn freeloaders like the Majority Villain podcast. In fact, they can do something called “throttling” (video of person explaining this) and intentionally make websites slower than they would be otherwise. ISPs will make obscene amounts of money in the process by charging mid-size to large-size companies huge premiums at whatever price they deem profitable, regardless of market demands all for the bandwidth those same companies already get today. Sadly though, ending Net Neutrality protections will be a death sentence to many small businesses, because their meager advertising budgets won’t be able to afford the service. Those businesses who cannot compete with this new flavor of corporate elitism will go back to advertising mediums that belong in a museum. Sayonara Ma and Pa. December 14th the FCC is set to vote and end what we know as Net Neutrality. Even if you’re listening to this afterward, you can make your voice heard. Go to fccyourself.com and leave your feedback for the FCC on this disastrous decision. Change.org, battleforthenet.com, savetheinternet.com and verizonprotests.com all have actions you can take and there are links to every one of them in the show notes which you can find on the device you are using right now. Don’t just get angry, do something about it. The power is ours to create the future we want. You’ve been listening to the Majority Villain podcast. I’m your host, Gregory Haddock. To redeem your Villain points for this episode be sure to visit the website at majorityvillain.com and on Facebook and Twitter @majorityvillain. If you liked the show or even hated the show be sure to tell a friend or enemy about it and subscribe so you don’t miss a chance to love or hate it again! And be sure to check the show notes on the device you’re using for links to actions you can take against the internet and cable lobby’s efforts to steal the internet, YOUR internet. A big thanks to Letters from an Outsider’s, Vili Branyik, mad reading skills by Eric Ellzey, and Kris Shapar for help on social media. Majority Villain will be taking a Christmas break and will return January 13th. Remember, remember, remember…. to not take a stand is to acquiesce your power. To acquiesce your power is to remain neutral. To remain neutral is the status quo. And status quos are for suckers. Peace, love and villainy. Music provided by the Free Music Archive under Creative Commons licensing. Today’s music by Blue Dot Sessions, Evil Bear Boris, Scott Holmes and Daizy. Show image by Russell Davies under Creative Commons licensing via Flickr. #StoptheFCC #GoFCCyourself #NetNeutrality #VerizonProtests https://www.battleforthenet.com/ www.verizonprotests.com https://www.change.org/p/save-net-neutrality-netneutrality https://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-isps-competition-net-neutrality-ajit-pai-fcc-2017-4 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/cable-lobby-claims-us-is-totally-overflowing-in-broadband-competition/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/08/the-impact-of-net-neutrality-laws-on-your-business/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-fcc-says-net-neutrality-cripples-investment-thats-not-true/

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Stronger, a true story of Jeff Bauman who lost both of his legs when a bomb exploded at the Boston Marathon in 2013. Ellen E Jones reviews the film that charts his recovery.Douglas Henshall discusses his role as journalist and TV news director Max Schumacher in the stage version of the 1976 Oscar-winning film Network at the National Theatre, alongside Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston who plays the troubled news anchor Howard Beale who is famously 'mad as hell' and 'not going to take this anymore!'Performing live Tokio Myers, the pianist who fuses classical piano pieces with pop tracks. Myers came to prominence earlier this year when he won Britain's Got Talent and has just released his debut album. He discusses studying at the Royal College of Music and supporting Amy Winehouse and Kanye West on tour.Shashi Kapoor has died today. We look at the life and work of the Bollywood star with Asian Network's Ashanti Omkar.

This is the Hermetic Hour for November 30th, 2017. I'm your host Poke Runyon and tonight I'm again channeling the spirit of Howard Beale. In March of 2017 we reviewed Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film classic NETWORK on the Hermetic Hour. I gave my own dramatic reading of Ned Beatty's speech in which he converted news caster Howard Beale from a critic of incipient Globalism and its mass media brain-washing propaganda machine into an advocate of The New World Order. Of course Beale's ratings tanked and the Network had their left-wing terrorist group kill him right on camera. I was certain that even before Howard's mythical spirit passed the Pearly Gates he would have realized that his original vision was the True perception of International political-economic and social corruption. I imagined him looking down on us from heaven – a sort of Ascended Master if you will, who would watch over us and perhaps communicate with us again. “The Mad Prophet of the Astral Plane.”

Macintosh thought Maud was going to be mad as hell at him for thinking Network was one of the greatest movies of all time. It was poised to sweep the Oscars in 1977, but lost out on best picture and best direction to Rocky. If you ask us, though, this movie only gets saved by the writing and some still-amazing performances, like Peter Finch's wild-eyed madman prophet Howard Beale, or William Holden's seething, subtle performance as newsman Max Schumacher. Network was, at one point, one of the more eerily prescient movies of its time. Today, it's lost that power, but what remains is still one hell of a movie. So get out of your chairs, open your windows, and then relax and check out our review.After the break, we talk about the entertaining popcorn thriller remake of Murder on the Orient Express (2017). There's a cavalcade of starts and outstanding actors, but it might just be a certain piece of facial hair that will win this movie immense acclaim. Then again, Kenneth Branagh is outright amazing in the film, even if everyone else just happens to be along for the ride.NEXT EPISODE: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987).You can email us with feedback at macintoshandmaud@gmail.com, or you can connect with us on Instagram (macintosh.and.maud) and Facebook.If you like the podcast, make sure to subscribe and review on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher, and tell your friends.Music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

BBC Head of News, James Harding, offers his verdict of a new stage version of Network, starring Bryan Cranston. Philosopher, Gloria Origgi, considers the importance of reputation in the digital age. Plus, presenter Rana Mitter meets with the 'father of Virtual Reality', Jaron Lanier. Jaron Lanier's books include You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future, and Dawn of the New Everything. Network scripted by Lee Hall and directed by Ivo van Hove, based on the Paddy Chayefsky film, runs at the National Theatre until February 2018 and stars Bryan Cranston as news anchor-man Howard Beale.Reputation: What it is and why it matters by Gloria Origgi is out now. Producer: Craig Templeton Smith

We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore! In this episode Nathan, Cal and Jenn review Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 dark satire “Network,” the eerily-prophetic and highly prescient story of a down-and-out television news anchor named Howard Beale whose on-air descent into madness turns him into a populist icon that millions tune in to see. But when his pro-human spirit message runs afoul the agenda of the “corporate cosmology” of the infotainment industry, “the mad prophet of the airwaves” Beale changes course and begins preaching a new message: nihilism. Links IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/ Dave Itzkoff’s book-length analysis of the movie, mentioned by Nathan on this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Hell-Network-Fateful-Angriest/dp/0805095691 James Parker, “Madder Than Hell: How Network Anticipated Contemporary Media,” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/madder-than-hell/357572/     

How do you feel about netdecking? Are you mad as hell that people are getting their deck ideas from the internet?! Do you have the spirit of Howard Beale prodding you to the window to scream, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this netdecking any more!" Or... do you feel that netdecking is simply a good tool for building decks? Getting decks lists or ideas from the web is often a topic of discussion, and it came up on discussion boards recently when Adam Styborski wrote about what the data from EDHRec shows about card usage. Check out his article . There are cards that are obvious inclusions when we are building a commander deck. Then there are those cards that we maybe don't naturally think about without some online help. Andy and Kyle take a look at a few cards in each color that maybe aren't the most used, but that are hard to deal with cards and come up frequently enough in netdeck references that you probably see them regularly. Andy then gives us some good ways to deal with those cards, so that we can all be ready to deal with netdecked ideas. We're super grateful that Home lets us use his sweet beats. This episode's intro/outro music is from Home's Resting State album, track # 4. Look up his tunes on . Big shout out to Mikey Patch for all our art work! .

FXFS02EP02_SIDNEY LUMET's NETWORK : Alan Heim, Mark Laub, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey WolfPLAY PODCAST In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky's script, Beatrice Straights' performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway's performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch's frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled “mad prophet of the airwaves.” Thirty-five years later, “Network” remains an incendiary if influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” and wrote later that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.' ” Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried. Frame By Frame is a podcast series hosted by editor Isabel Sadurni, that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we'll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we'll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry. Proudly presented by the Post New York Alliance and the New York Motion Picture Editors Guild. Produced by Isabel Sadurni and Ben Baker.

FXFS02EP02_SIDNEY LUMET's NETWORK : Alan Heim, Mark Laub, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey WolfPLAY PODCAST In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky's script, Beatrice Straights' performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway's performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch's frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled “mad prophet of the airwaves.” Thirty-five years later, “Network” remains an incendiary if influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” and wrote later that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.' ” Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried. Frame By Frame is a podcast series hosted by editor Isabel Sadurni, that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we'll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we'll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry. Proudly presented by the Post New York Alliance and the New York Motion Picture Editors Guild. Produced by Isabel Sadurni and Ben Baker.

Another conspiracy classic movie review comes to the Themes and Memes podcast. Network has been quoted endlessly throughout conspiracy culture, and with good reason. This review fits right into the past few podcast episodes which have focussed on television news, and mass media in general. Topics discussed include: antiestablishment film, conspiracy, nightly news, Howard Beale, sensationalism, exploitation, media, radical political movements, dehumanization, too much dialogue, truth, similarities to Nightcrawler, decor, lighting, speeches, commerce, Jordan Maxwell, David Icke, religious awakenings, waking up the same as being born again, religion, dogma, integrity, medium effects the messenger, mass appeal, Alex, Jones, stages of awakening, inciting anger in audience, mad as hell, grief, boredom, YouTube, internet media platforms, target marketing, Sir Anthony Hopkins, cinema in decline, novelty

This is the story of Dr. Hanna Bloomfield, who had a "Howard Beale moment" when she received direct mail marketing that promoted cardiovascular screening tests that she knew she didn't need. Like Howard Beale in the movie "Network," she decided she was mad as hell and wasn't going to take it anymore. It's a story about how careful one should think about the evidence for what you stand to gain, but what you might stand to lose - the tradeoff of potential benefits and potential harms - from pursuing health screening tests.

In this Episode:   Remember the movie Network? If not, check out Howard Beale’s famous speech on YouTube, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” Because mad as hell is how I want you to feel too. I want you to get so angry you are fired up in a […] Read more

Following the Plant Monster's reappearance, Minkowski makes it her mission to eliminate the mutant stowaway once and for all. But when her quarry proves surprisingly difficult to corner, the Commander resorts to increasingly desperate and dangerous tactics. As the deadly game of cat and mouse intensifies and the lines between roles start to blur, Minkowski must decide on the best path to take to ensure the safety of her crew. Plus, Howard Beale breakdowns, escalating hostilities, Holy Hand Grenades, friendly conversations, and Heart of Darkness lighting. 

Welcome to episode #438 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. There's an infamous line from the 1976 film, Network, in which longtime fictional television news anchor, Howard Beale, screams, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" We've (probably) all done this at one point in our professional lives (granted, not the extent of Beale!). Some of us actually meant it, quit our jobs and went off to do other things. For others, we mutter these words beneath our breath or spout them off to family and friends on the weekend, but never really do anything to change our own, professional, situation. In June of this year, longtime marketing agency professional, Uwe Hook, did something about his unhappiness with agency life. After close to twenty years in the business, he quit his job and explained it all rather publicly in a Medium post titled, Why I quit my agency job. Several months later, DigiDay published a piece titled, Why Agency People Are So Unhappy, that  quoted Hook's piece along with other unhappy agency professionals. After reading both pieces, and others on the topic, I invited Uwe to share his thoughts. Ultimately, I don't fully understand these positions. I can empathize with the feelings, but I'm not sure I get why we would tag the industry as such, and to what benefit this serves? We should always strive ti be better and do better work, but I would much prefer the route of doing this in a positive and productive way. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #438 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 50:25. Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com. Hello from Beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter.  Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! Here is my conversation with Uwe Hook. Medium - Why I Quit My Agency Job. DigiDay - Why Agency People Are So Unhappy. Follow Uwe on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Get David's song for free here: Artists For Amnesty. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #438 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising agency advertising podcast audio blog blogging brand business book business podcast david usher digiday digital marketing Facebook google iTunes marketing agency marketing blog marketing podcast medium network twitter uwe hook

Nathan and Scotty discuss Nightcrawler, the character traits of Jake Gyllenhaal, the transcendence of Donnie Darko, Howard Beale, the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, and the impact of paparazzi. Dynamic performances earmarked by fantastic cinematography, Nightcrawler is frighteningly thrilling. This episode is sponsored by Phil Coffee.

If you have ever seen the movie Network, then you know where this weeks title came from. If you haven't seen it, thats ok you are in the majority and can be assured that you are not a movie nerd. In this episode Baldo does his best Howard Beale impression when he talks about the upcoming city elections. We also have another update on our burrito competition, which is growing much faster than we anticipated.

In the 1960’s anger was a powerful motivator in civic discourse, as we protested, marched, fought and found new ways to understand relationships. In 1976 Howard Beale told us we had to get up, and get angry!  in 1985, Dr. Harriet Lerner explained  how anger was a signal, an early warning system about issues in our relationships, among woman, and arguably writ large.Today, anger is even more complex.  Anger globally, domestically and still, anger intimately.   As such, the solutions are also more difficult to achieve.  Harriet Lerner who has since 1985 written extensively about fear, and intimacy and connection, now talks again about the issue of anger,The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships.with the reissue of her iconic book My conversation with Harriet Lerner:

Most of you know that the mad prophet the airwaves was Howard Beale. The very idea that we can listen to a clip from Network, made 38 years ago, and its sounds as relevant as if it were written yesterday, speaks to the genius of Paddy Chayefsky's script, and the serendipity of the movie and its production.The movie was at once spot on in its portrayal of its moment in time and prescient about something as big and hard to hold on to as the television and the media landscape.  It is truly a movie for the ages.Not to put down other efforts, but look at Network in the context of the simplicity and gloss of contemporary movies, and you begin to understand why we are still talking about Network today.We’re also talking about it because Dave Itzkoff, culture reporter at the New York Times, has written the definitive behind the scenes story of this iconic film, Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies.My conversation with Dave Itzkoff

In Chapter One, the author explains Plato’s allegory of The Cave, and suggests that we, like the prisoners, live inside a movie theater watching total immersion 3D movies that we believe are real. He explains the difference between Human Children who sit in their seats watching the movies, and Human Adults who have left their seats - like Plato’s prisoner who is freed from his chains - and wander around the back of the movie theater. "At a minimum, a Human Adult has become aware there is something “wrong” with the life it has been experiencing through the total immersion movies and is not willing to accept that “reality” at face value any more. In the classic 1976 movie Network, news-anchor Howard Beale expresses what a number of new Human Adults feel when he rants, 'I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more!'"

John Lydon was wrong: anger is not an energy.....Over the last few months, the nation has morphed into Howard Beale. We are, as Beale roared, as mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more. With every passing week, every passing live current affairs show, every passing protest march, the anger mounts. This anger is applied indiscriminately left, right and centre. We’re angry with politicians, highly paid TV presenters, unions, highly paid union leaders, rich folk, folk who used to be rich, poor folks, builders, developers, emigrants, immigrants, public sector workers, private sector workers, bankers, footballers, football pundits, the FAI, Morrissey, neighbours, relatives and friends. Oh, and journalists too. It’s an equal opportunities kind of anger. But the problem with anger is that it doesn’t get you anywhere. You vent, rant and fume but, when you’re finished venting, ranting and fuming, you’re still in the same pickle that you were in when you began. It may be entertaining to watch someone go off on one [ like the one that Congressman Anthony Weiner went on recently], but it does absolutely no good whatsoever. Some would argue that this anger is part of a cycle of coming to terms with the demise of the boom. We’re already had the denial and we should be preparing ourselves for bouts of bargaining, depression and, finally, acceptance. It’s going to be a long wait. And while we're waiting sit back and enjoy the DRR Show PODCAST!!

Inspired by Keith Olbermann's "Enough" Special Comment and Howard Beale's "Mad as Hell", Nicole Sandler created this for her Air America radio show..