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Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

David and Tamler dive into Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece Persona, a film about two (?) women, Elisabet, a famous stage actress who has stopped speaking, and Alma the chatty young nurse assigned to care for her at an island cottage. What happens when the roles we play as parents, spouses, friends, and colleagues start to feel like dishonest performances, an endless series of desperate lies? Can we escape to an inner sanctum of truth and authenticity? Or is that putting on another mask, playing yet another part, telling a different set of lies? We offer some tentative interpretations of this rich and baffling film. Get that boy a normal sized sheet!

Plus we share some thoughts about the Chappelle special…

Episode 20 - The Moral Dilemma of Interstella

On this weeks episode the promised movie episode! The movie that was chosen by Ryan and Spinny was Interstellar. Spoiler warning if you haven't seen this movie from 2014 you should definitely go watch it before listening to this episode. Interstellar is a great Sci-fi movie staring Mathew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, David Gyasi and Matt Damon, it's about a guy who finds a hidden NASA base through some paranormal help from a "presence" in his daughters room. He is asked to take a team of scientists to find other scientists that are off on distant planets in another galaxy near a black hole, all in hopes of finding humans a new home. Because the earth atmosphere will eventually kill all life on earth. So come traverse Interstellar with us as we ponder the cosmic and intergalactic theories of the movie. Comment about our favourite parts and our interpretations of this film. The movie has a great concept about black hole science and space/time travel, which prompts an interesting moral dilemma. Also we talk about the problems with space travels in real life. Like the junk left behind by the space shuttles and satellites that are just orbiting our planet. As well as the hazards faced by astronauts, such as losing bone density while being submitted to no gravity over long periods of time. Ryan Brings some related random articles about space and black hole theories, links are below if you like to know Moore.

This weeks Explain the strain, is a sweet delicious sativa strain called Jack Haze. Dark green buds that are dense and aromatic. Picked up from our local dispensary Forest City Marijuana, this strain gives a nice heady high that helps with having intriguing discussion about space and time. So come along for the high, because there's Always Room For Moore.

Explain the strain resource:
https://www.allbud.com/marijuana-strains/sativa-dominant-hybrid/jack-haze

Ryans Random Article:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/space-junk-damage-international-space-station/http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Hawking_radiation

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enJuly 17, 2021

Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"

"Sometimes I think of my death," Akira Kurosawa said, "I think of ceasing to be...and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came.” David and Tamler explore what it means to truly live in Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece about a bureaucrat in postwar Japan who learns that he will die from stomach cancer within six months. Plus a new study provides evidence for what every pet owner knows: dogs get jealous. And a shocking revelation about Harvard legends Kohlberg, Rawls, and Nozick.

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Episodes (3)

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

Episode 20 - The Moral Dilemma of Interstella

Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"