18: "I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Plastics"
Plastic takes over the podcast! This week we go over some troubling news about the prevalence of microplastics in certain human organs before diving into a film about human organs that are able to dig...
4 Jun 202459min
17: California Tumbles into the Sea
This week we're discussing Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower, tracking how well this 1993 book predicted the world in which we now find ourselves. Is her vision of a violent, environmentally...
28 Mai 20241h
16: Love in a Hopeless Place
We're going into the marine depths of Yorgos Lanthimos's 2015 meditation on monogamy, The Lobster. What does this starkly delineated world of relationships have to say about our old more loosely defin...
21 Mai 20241h 5min
15: Mom, I'm Dating Siri
This week we're getting into the many absurdities of 2013's Spike Jonze directed AI romcom, Her. We discuss the technical problems with the film's depiction of AI, plus Stu educates Michael on the par...
14 Mai 20241h 8min
14: He's the Ghoul that's Kept it Together Best
We're talking about Amazon Prime's new smash hit series Fallout. Along the way we touch on such subjects as Ridley Scott, 50's Nostalgia, Plato's Cave, Jerry Seinfeld's scintillating and brilliant new...
7 Mai 202458min
13: "The Greatest Defeat in the History of the United States"
We're promoting Stu's new book, Fernsehturm Berlin, a mix of memoir, historical imagination, and chaotic rumination this week while also discussing the dreaded Cuban Missile Crisis, the moment in the ...
30 Apr 20241h 10min
12: Civil War
We're back in the Alex Garland space, confronted, once again, by one of his ideology-free films. Civil War asks us to imagine an America that is UNDER SIEGE from internal forces...but does it, in any ...
23 Apr 20241h 3min
11: Ex Machina
Is the AI apocalypse coming soon? Will our large language model chat bots soon...take over the world? Has artificial general intelligence come to bury us and not to praise us? This week we're discussi...
16 Apr 20241h 2min
