The discipline to depict space is silent, which is something that many sci-fi directors don't do because space obviously is silent. He plays so well in one of the shots when you only start hearing sound when the air comes rushing back into the capsule. And also just when Frank I mean, we're jumping ahead, but when Frank has been disconnected from his oxygen tube and you just see him silently kind of flowing past me for yeah. It's so good. There's it's not a funny movie. Like I was thinking on this last relaunch, I watched it again today. Yeah.
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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