36: Hail Atlantis! Part One
At long last we are covering one of the greatest apocalyptic narratives of them all! That's right, it's the Atlantis episode! And for a subject so massive, so important, we had to make it a two parter...
8 Loka 202447min
35: Monkey See Monkey Doom
This week we are covering the 1995 Wolfgang Petersen blockbuster Outbreak. Having lived through a pandemic of our own, can we glean new wisdom by revisiting this terrifying tale of an even-deadlier-th...
1 Loka 202455min
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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Elo 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 Elo 202459min
