Dog Day Afternoon

So I want to say in part one, we always open with our overall take.

I just have one sentence on this movie.

Now I'm being facetious, but you ready for this, Mike? This is going to sound like a joke, but I really want us to explore this.

Hit me.

This entire movie, Dog Day Afternoon, is about the experience of using Microsoft Office.

Something is supposed to take 10 minutes, but it takes four hours or 10 hours or whatever.

Let's unpack this, right? You're supposed to do something that's simple, right? Outlook.

We can even just focus on Microsoft Outlook.

Where's that email from Mike I deleted like two days ago? Because it had that file and I can't, where is it? Let me just search all my, I'll just search all Outlook items.

It's not there.

Just like the bank robber, you're supposed to go in the bank, Hold up the guns.

Get the money.

The money's not there.

So something that should be simple becomes far more complicated.

You're in a state of constant annoyance.

It certainly ruins your day, right? There's no recourse to any help, right? Because, you know, calling the help desk or going to look online is like when he asks Sal what country he wants to go to.

And Sal says...

Wyoming.

So that's what it's like to look into Microsoft help, right? And everybody knows it, but nobody could do a thing about it.

Nobody could do anything about it.

So in the movie, the tellers, the bank manager, Charles Durning, the FBI, everyone's in this state of paralysis until the very end of the airport, right? Nobody could do anything except to be angry and yell and scream.

And that's what it's like, all of us Microsoft users, who you sit at your desk and And something that you need just to do your work for that day becomes taking up your day and you just get angrier and angrier and more sweaty.

Beautiful.