The monolith that they discover on the moon was planted at the same time, with the monolith, the beard on earth for the apes. So maybe we are in the same chapter, just like we're at the beginning of the chapter when he throws the bone and then the bulk of the movie is really like the end of that chapter. It's all that stuff. Because you know, in eyes wide shut and all these other movies, he's the same stilted conversations that are getting at something other than what has been said. That guy just exudes like the two martini lunch. 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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