34: This is the End Beautiful Friend
This week we're talking about James Cameron's 1984 masterpiece The Terminator. How relevant is this movie to our current fears about a potential future AI dystopia? How was such a tight, well-written ...
24 Sep 202449min
33: The End of the World with Donald and Kamala
This week we are discussing the highs and lows of the September 10, 2024 Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. We get into where they stand on the issues, the depths to which the...
17 Sep 202453min
32: Rainbows Have Nothing to Hide
This week we are discussing Karen Tei Yamashita's novel Through the Arc of the Rainforest, a magical realist look at the realities of corporate exploitation in the developing world. By turns comedic a...
10 Sep 202459min
31: Into the Great Wide Open
We're turning back the clock to 2009 to discuss an epochal turning point in our society, namely, the Balloon Boy incident. While perhaps not as "earth shattering" as some of the other topics we've cov...
3 Sep 202453min
30: We're Not Going Back?
This week we're covering the recently concluded DNC, noting the ways in which, despite the theme of "not going back," in many ways it feels as if the Democratic party has, in fact, gone back to previo...
27 Aug 202455min
29: It's Getting Hot in Here
This episode is about the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius which buried and preserved the Roman city of Pompeii as an example of a real world apocalyptic event. We go over the mechanics of what happen...
20 Aug 202459min
28: I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
We're journeying back to 1998 to consider one of the greatest of all cinematic masterpieces, Michael Bay's Armageddon. Along the way we point out a few of the more...improbable...scientific elements o...
13 Aug 20241h
27: I'll Never be your Beast of Burden
This week we're discussing Bertrand Bonello's 2023 filmThe Beast. Starring the brilliant Léa Seydoux and George MacKay, the movie is set in a not too distant future where AI rules human society and ha...
6 Aug 20241h 2min
