The End of the World with Michael and Stu

We're examining the recent "trend" of so-called "Last Chance Tourism" in this episode, which is when travelers seek out places or sites that are likely to be destroyed or rendered utterly unrecognizab...

11 Juni 202451min

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 Juni 202459min

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 Maj 20241h

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 Maj 20241h 5min

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 Maj 20241h 8min

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 Maj 202458min

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

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