For our 75th episode spectacular, we are discussing 28 Days Later, the 2002 film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland that reinvigorated the zombie movie for the 2000s and launched a franchise that has been back in the news lately. We go over the film's links to Stu's favorite topic, Romanticism, while also comparing it favorably to such dystopian British pictures as Shaun of the Dead and Children of Men. We also note the similarities between the situation the protagonists find themselves in with our own recent experience of the Covid-19 lockdowns. A movie about isolation, civilization, and barbarism, for once, we both really liked it.

We open the episode by briefly discussing the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the recent Democratic primary for New York City mayor, and what this moment of hope for leftist candidates bodes for the future.

This episode contains spoilers for 28 Days Later but does not discuss the recent sequel, 28 Years Later, so if you are waiting to see that one, listen away.

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This week we are talking about billionaires and what makes them different than the rest of us. Why do they put so much stock into utopian fantasies of human salvation on Mars? Who do they believe Artificial General Intelligence will solve all of Earth's problems if we just allow for it to be born (with as few regulations in place as possible)? Why do they seem to care so little about other people? Our guide on this episode is a recent article in Rolling Stone by Alex Morris that gets at some of the psychological underpinnings of these questions while also pointing out how truly ridiculous some of these ambitions are.

We open the episode by discussing the recent US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites and what this bodes for the future.

Alex Morris's What You Suspect Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us in Rolling Stone

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This week we are discussing the introductory miniseries of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica as a kind of "culmination" of our recent robot/AI-themed episodes. For once we both really like the show, and we dissect how it deals with the complex issues of technology and religion as well as the question of "fatherhood" with respect to both characters in the show as well as the dynamic between the Cylons and humanity.

We open the episode by going over recent events, including the escalating war between Israel and Iran, Trump's military parade, the No Kings protests, and the assassination of a Minnesota state politician by a man in a life-like mask. Dark stuff!

This episode contains spoilers for the first miniseries of Battlestar Galactica.

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