77: How Many Ways To Get What You Want?
This week we are discussing the Biblical Antichrist. What does the New Testament have to say about this ominous figure? Why do some Christians maintain his return is a necessary precondition for the s...
15 Heinä 202556min
76: I Won't Forget to Put Roses on Your Grave
This week we are discussing Edgar Wright's zombie comedy about the mundanity of day to day life under late capitalism, Shaun of the Dead. Featuring star turns for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the movie ...
8 Heinä 202544min
75: The Days Are Long And the Nights Will Throw You Away
For our 75th episode spectacular, we are discussing 28 Days Later, the 2002 film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland that reinvigorated the zombie movie for the 2000s and launched a fr...
1 Heinä 202547min
74: Mickey Mouse Has Grown Up A Cow
This week we are talking about billionaires and what makes them different than the rest of us. Why do they put so much stock into utopian fantasies of human salvation on Mars? Who do they believe Arti...
24 Kesä 202553min
73: They're Programmed To Destroy Us
This week we are discussing the introductory miniseries of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica as a kind of "culmination" of our recent robot/AI-themed episodes. For once we both really like the show, a...
17 Kesä 202555min
72: But Are "Friends" Electric?
This week we are continuing our suite of robot themed episodes by discussing the play that originated the word, R.U.R. by Karel Čapek which was first written in 1920. Derived from a Czech term meaning...
10 Kesä 202556min
71: We Are Programmed Just to Do Anything You Want Us To
This week we are talking about robots. Where did they come from? What are they? Are they really going to replace all human workers? We get into the history of these machines, while looking at the impl...
3 Kesä 202557min
70: Bring Me A Dream
This week we are discussing E.T.A. Hoffman's short story, The Sandman, which presciently anticipates some potential psychological consequences of a too-deep dependence on artificial beings for compani...
27 Touko 20251h 1min
