Academy Award-winning actress Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, an Academy Award-nominated actor, discuss dreams, fears, and growing up in a time of pandemic. They explore catastrophic events, the line between dreams and reality, and advancements in artificial intelligence. They engage in a conversation about time travel, sharing personal experiences and memories. The speaker emphasizes the urgency to stop Marie Baker and change belief systems using lasers and gravity.
The Interpandemic Generation grew up with a fear of physical contact and placed more trust in distance, resulting in virtual dates and therapy becoming commonplace.
The speaker believes that catastrophic scenarios, such as nuclear explosions and massive tidal waves, are strangely soothing because they would obliterate humanity instantaneously, offering no time to acknowledge the catastrophe.
Deep dives
The Impact of the Interpandemic Generation
The podcast episode explores how the Interpandemic Generation, who grew up between waves of deadly infections, developed a fear of physical contact and placed more trust in distance than closeness. Virtual dates and therapy became commonplace for this generation, and even a simple kiss became an act of faith. The speaker reflects on growing up in a screen-dominated world, where proximity and physical touch were sources of anxiety.
Imagining the End of the World
The speaker discusses their perception of the end of the world, dispelling the notion of a catastrophic event. Instead, they express a belief that various disaster scenarios, such as nuclear explosions, asteroid impacts, and massive tidal waves, are strangely soothing because they would obliterate humanity instantaneously, leaving no time to acknowledge the catastrophic event. The speaker also ponders why the individual they are speaking to hasn't considered this topic in a city like New York, where such scenarios are frequently portrayed in movies.
The Time Traveler's Purpose
The episode introduces the concept of time travel, with the speaker claiming to be a time traveler sent to the past to save the world. They mention a colony on Mars and a person named Marie Baker, whom they believe is crucial but withhold specific details. The speaker challenges the listener, who is a doctor, to change their belief system and ultimately stop Marie Baker to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. The doctor expresses skepticism about the speaker's claims and their role in the mission.
Session two. Case 63 delves into the goal of his mission: to save the world. But from what? Or from whom? And how will Dr. Knight help?
Case 63, created and written by Julio Rojas. Adapted by Mara Vélez Meléndez. Directed by Mimi O’Donnell. Starring Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac.
Executive produced by Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, Mimi O’Donnell, Javier Piñol, and Nacho Gil. Produced by Katie Pastore and Facundo Soler. Associate producers Julie Balefsky, Kayla Stokes, and Tobias Traglia. Sound design & mix by Armando Serrano and Daniel Brunelle. Additional engineering by Jonathon Roberts, Shane Hendrickson, and Steven Tejeda. Recorded at Harbor Picture Company by Mike Rivera and Beau Emory. Sound supervision by Jonathon Roberts. Score by Mowat. Originally produced by Emisor Podcasting. Script consultant Gabriel Urbina. Special thanks to Dawn Ostroff.
Case 63 is a Spotify original audio series and a Gimlet, FortySixty, and Mad Gene Media production.