Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

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Is Meryl Streep in a David Lynch Movie?

01:54 • 2min

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Is Meryl Streep a Soap Opera Character?

03:27 • 2min

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Is There Really No Example of Meryl Streep Doing That?

05:09 • 2min

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The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chang

06:45 • 2min

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Toxic Masculinity in the West

08:18 • 3min

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White Privilege Is Epistemically Accessible

11:40 • 4min

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Toxic Masculinity

15:15 • 2min

9

Deadwood Rewatch

16:45 • 2min

10

Is Deadwood the Best Rapper Ever?

18:32 • 2min

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Deadwood Is Not Deadwood, but It's Deadwood

20:05 • 3min

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Deadwood Review - Is Deadwood Dead?

22:47 • 2min

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The Truth of Fact and the Truth of Feeling

24:52 • 3min

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How You Can Support Very Bad Wizards

28:15 • 2min

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The Father's Story

30:16 • 3min

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Is There a Parallel Story About Writing Technology?

33:04 • 3min

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A Journalist's Story About the Tower of Babel

36:33 • 2min

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The New Technology That Allows You to Search Through Your Life Logs

38:33 • 3min

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Relationships - Is There a Way to Get Over a Fight?

41:24 • 3min

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Is Forgiveness Possible When You Have a Specific Verbatim Record of Everything That Someone Said?

44:03 • 2min

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Are You Being an Asshole?

46:04 • 2min

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The Psychology of Memory

48:24 • 3min

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You Can't Spend Your Money on Experiences, Right?

51:31 • 2min

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I Don't Know if You Remember Everything, You Did?

53:13 • 3min

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I Can't, I'm Not Shy Melon Twist

56:32 • 2min

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The Psychology of the Challenger Disaster

58:09 • 2min

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I Was Continuous With My Father, but I Was Never That Kind of Father

01:00:22 • 2min

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You've Been There, You Know?

01:02:30 • 3min

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You Know You Shouldn't Say That He's Fucking Writing the Story

01:05:35 • 2min

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Is He a Good Guy or a Bad Guy?

01:07:55 • 2min

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I've Had a Long-Standing Disagreement About a Memory From Childhood

01:09:43 • 2min

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The Story of the Asshole

01:11:43 • 2min

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You Know I Feel Like I'm a Good Guy and Then I Improved Myself

01:14:00 • 2min

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I Love How a Relationship Is Such That I Didn't Even Blink at That Job

01:15:48 • 3min

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Writing Helps You Decide What You Want to Say

01:18:56 • 3min

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The Art of Storytelling

01:21:37 • 2min

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The Difference Between a Missionary and an Elder

01:24:03 • 2min

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What's the Difference Between the Old and the New Testament?

01:25:35 • 4min

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Writing Is So Important Because It Can Be the Agent of Injustice

01:29:30 • 3min

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I'm I'm Interested in What if the Father Had Just Said No Fuck It Like I Think She Said It

01:32:56 • 2min

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I Think That's What's Going on in the Mozbe Story

01:34:31 • 3min

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Judaism Is a Different Distinction Without a Difference

01:37:24 • 2min

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The Dispassionate Article Free of All Soul Searching and Angst

01:39:50 • 2min

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Is the Recording Objective or the Narrative?

01:42:00 • 3min

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What's the Ultimate Twist of This Story?

01:44:33 • 2min

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What's the Point of the Story?

01:46:26 • 3min