Episode 12: Civil War
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04/23/24 • 63 min
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 way, explain what is motivating those forces? Does the movie offer answers as to what might heal a similarly divided nation? Is the moral of the film simply: objective journalism is good and VERY possible? In order to find the answers to these and so many other crucial questions, you must, of course, listen to this week's episode.
This episode contains spoilers for 2024's Civil War.
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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 way, explain what is motivating those forces? Does the movie offer answers as to what might heal a similarly divided nation? Is the moral of the film simply: objective journalism is good and VERY possible? In order to find the answers to these and so many other crucial questions, you must, of course, listen to this week's episode.
This episode contains spoilers for 2024's Civil War.
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https://youtube.com/@TheEndoftheWorldwMS?si=xmj-2e0s58JdN8-B
https://linktr.ee/endoftheworldwithmichaelandstu
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Episode 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 discussing Alex Garland's 2014 AI-Frankenstein-gothic-horror-sci-fi, Ex Machina, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the above questions and oh so much more.
This conversation contains spoilers for Ex Machina.
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Episode 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 Cold War that perhaps brought us closest to nuclear armageddon. Was Curtis LeMay correct in his estimation that the resolution of this conflict was "the greatest defeat in the history of the United States," or were there, perhaps, even greater defeats past and to come? We also touch on the utterly boring Costner-starring cinematic depiction of these events in 2000's 13 Days.
This episode contains spoilers for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
You can read more about Stu's book (and purchase it!) at this link.
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