Podside Picnic Pete and Connor

Get ready to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon as we discuss the movie that ended Paul Verhoeven's streak of US-made movies, Hollow Man (2000)

Eugenics - am I right? We talk today about C.M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons, a right doozy of a tale, where you do NOT have to hand it to Hitler

We talk about Get Lamp (2010), along with its bonus materials, a documentary about the history of "IF" or Interactive Fiction which has its charms, but is ultimately a little unfocused

Visit the Get Lamp site: http://www.getlamp.com/

Also, the full documentary (and bonus/additional material) is on YouTube.

Main Documentary: https://youtu.be/TmBSYho5Gbk?si=8jhdN91bGqA6PKLN

Cut Scenes: https://youtu.be/zEJXZ2wnO3w?si=DfVJVmTTyiofBveN

Infocom Documentary: https://youtu.be/OXNLWy7rwH4?si=afu1Ll5wbITqWxMp

Today, we talk about The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard, and follow the life of artist, and possible con-man, Meric Cattanay, in his quest to have his name as remembered as the dragon he's proposed to slay

Aaron Thorpe returns to talk about GATTACA (1997) with us, a film that asks: what would society look like if it believed in genetic determinism?

Spring has indeed sprung. What better time to talk about bunnies? Who are on an epic quest to find a new home?