"It really does not work as a scary movie i mean this you know jack nickelson's grade and their great moments in it is visually beautiful but the attempt to produce scares with this sort of mood pieces like the blood coming out of the elevator and they just kind of it's just too random," he says. "I've been corrupted by my own daughter like it does not work for for this generation as a scared movie well I don't agree with that and my daughter doesn't agree with your daughter do you actually think it's scary i think it's terrifying i've always thought it was terrifying", asks his son-in-law, who has written an essay on the shining
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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