At a dollar and up, you get all of our episodes ad-free. You also get access to the Brothers Karamazov series. At 10 dollars and up,you get to ask us questions on the Ask Us Anything. And we've been answering them all. We just released one. Well, we didn't answer one question. No, but we addressed it. That was after like my brain was broken for the last one. Like, I had recorded that Q&A with Sam Harris. And yeah, at one point, I just short circuited like, like slow smoke is coming out of my head.
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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